Fired via email: the tumultuous times of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes

Founding member and bonafide awesome chick, Jade Castrinos, has been fired from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes via email. In her instagram description Jade reportedly wrote: "for seven years i sang and wrote music with edward sharpe. they voted me off of tour a week before they left, via email. lol." Now it's been changed to "Don't let the bastards get you down..."

The band went on to post this status on facebook:

"Anyone on here who thinks the story could be as terribly and flatly painted as Jade conveniently did, has no idea what this band has always been about. It's a shame to think anyone would comment anything other than a hope that it heals. If you think we came to this decision suddenly or as some form of punishment then you have no idea who we are. If you think that email to Jade was not sent 30 seconds after a meeting WITH Jade and the band but out of the blue - you have no idea who we are. If you don't think we spent years trying to heal this very issue as a group, together - years trying to help correct this, love this until it was right, sometime flailing and other times sailing, but always trying - you have no idea who we are.

Yet if you do not know that sometimes people must be unwilling to allow a continuation of old patterns in order to make a change for the better you simply have not yet lived long enough. I hope you all do not continue to speculate ignorantly. It is beneath you and it is grotesquely damaging."

The status has since been taken down but was screenshotted by these lovely folks.

Jade's beautiful performance and her integral contributions to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes will be sorely missed.

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