Articles by Stuart Henderson

Shovels & Rope

Water to Drink, Water to Drown

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2014

"We were thinking about the tornados in Norman, Oklahoma," says Shovels & Rope's Michael Trent, "and the devastation they caused. But we wa...

Shovels & Rope

Swimmin’ Time

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2014

One of the most compelling live acts in the game right now, Charleston, SC's Shovels & Rope, are a husband-and-wife duo boasting great song...

Señoritas

Lina Rodriguez

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2014

Senoritas, the debut feature from Colombian-raised, Toronto-based filmmaker Lina Rodriguez is an angry, unhappy being-of-age film. Composed...

Cory Branan

The No-Hit Wonder

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2014

Cory Branan is perhaps best described (even if it's a cliché, and more than a little cumbersome) as a songwriter's singer-songwriter. He wr...

Shovels & Rope Explain the Global Warming Inspiration Behind 'Swimmin' Time'

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2014

On August 26, Charleston, SC's raucous folk duo Shovels & Rope will drop their third record, the instructively titled Swimmin' Time on Dine...

John Hiatt

Terms of My Surrender

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2014

People often forget that John Hiatt was among the young troubadours featured in Heartworn Highways, the essential documentary film about th...

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit / Doug Paisley

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, July 15

PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2014

Somewhere between the singing river that weaves through his hometown of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the inventive fretwork of southern rock out...

Basia Bulat / Destroyer

Massey Hall, Toronto ON, July 10

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2014

For the fourth and final entry in this season's triumphant "Live at Massey Hall" series — a run of double bills at the storied old venue de...