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Cage The Elephant
Rock / Punk / Funk



Bowling Green, Kentucky
United States

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Member Since1/28/2005
Band Members
Sounds LikePunkFunk / Rock
Record LabelDSP
Type of LabelIndie


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Jul 8 2009 6:00P
Grimey’s New & Preloved Music Nashville, Tennessee
Jul 10 2009 8:00P
Forecastle Festival Louisville, Kentucky
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Stay Classy Tailgate at Petco Park San Diego, California
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
Fuji Rock Festival - Naeba Ski Resort Niigata, Niigata
Jul 30 2009 10:00P
Letterman Show NYC, New York
Aug 1 2009 12:00P
all points west music & arts festival @ liberty state park Jersey City, New Jersey
Aug 2 2009 8:00P
McFadden’s Block Party - 52 Pine Street, Providence Providence, Rhode Island
Aug 3 2009 8:00P
ram’s head baltimore, Maryland
Aug 4 2009 8:00P
the national richmond, Virginia
Aug 6 2009 8:00P
The LC Pavilion Columbus, Ohio
Aug 7 2009 8:00P
Lakewood Civic Auditorium Lakewood, Ohio
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
Schuba’s Chicago, Illinois
Aug 9 2009 1:00P
Lollapalooza - Grant Park Chicago, Illinois
Aug 10 2009 8:00P
State Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota
Aug 12 2009 8:00P
The Garrick Centre Winnipeg, Manitoba
Aug 13 2009 8:00P
Louis’ Pub Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Aug 14 2009 8:00P
Edmonton Event Centre Edmonton, Alberta
Aug 15 2009 8:00P
MacEwan Hall Calgary, Alberta
Aug 17 2009 8:00P
The Royal Theatre Victoria, British Columbia
Aug 18 2009 8:00P
The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia
Aug 19 2009 8:00P
The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia
Aug 22 2009 8:00P
WashingtonCounty Fairgrounds Hillsboro, Oregon
Aug 30 2009 12:00P
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival @ Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California

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   About Cage The Elephant


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THINGS TO WATCH

A LITTLE TASTE OF THE LONDON SHOW @ KOKO

COACHELLA 2009

THIS IS A NEW SONG AND A DIFFERENT SIDE OF US IT'S CALLED "SHIVER ME TIMBER"




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THIS IS US ON JOOLS HOLLAND

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Who What Where When and How?

Music critics who have witnessed the eye-popping spectacle that is a Cage the Elephant live performance have likened the band’s singer to many things, among them “a demented Bible Belt preacher,” “a Tasmanian devil whooping and jumping up and down like a frenzied gibbon.” And that’s just frontman Matt Shultz. The verdict? “Exhilarating, 100 mph stuff,” raved British indie music bible NME about one of the group’s U.K. gigs last fall. Cage the Elephant’s raucous live show — which made this red-hot Kentucky-bred band the talk of this year’s South-by-Southwest music festival, and led USA Today to single them out as a band not to miss at 2009’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — is the perfect showcase for their buzzed-about self-titled debut album for Jive Records. Recorded over 10 days with Grammy Award-winning producer Jay Joyce, and a Top 40 hit when it was released on British indie label Relentless in the U.K. last June, the album is a genre-defying blend of rock n roll and raw youthful punk energy all propelled by Matt’s taunting, Dylan-esque rhythmic vocal delivery, Brad Shultz and Lincoln Parish’s furious twin guitar assault, and bassist Daniel Tichenor and drummer Jared Champion’s rock-steady funk grooves. “The music comes from a pure place,” Matt says. We really like the energy of music that feels passionate, raw, unplanned emotion. That's what we were really trying to capture in the studio.” And although the grooves are designed to make you move, there’s more going on in these punk funk tunes than the reckless abandonment that first meet the ear. Lyricist Matt tells stories about his life. The first single off of the album is “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” in which Matt describes being mugged by a drug dealer and picking up a young female hitch-hiker he soon finds out is a prostitute. “That song is about realizing that everyone’s got a back-story and that essentially we’re all the same,” he says. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a priest, a coke dealer, or a prostitute; we all struggle with the same things, so how can we sit in judgment of others when each of us has something in our closet that we’d never tell anyone.” Or like his experience dealing with shady shit-talkers on the instantly addictive track “In One Ear” (sample lyric: “They say I’m just a stupid kid / another crazy radical / rock n’ roll is dead / I probably should have stayed in school / Another generation X / who somehow slipped up through the cracks / Oh they’d love to see me fall / But I’m already on my back”), then tackles corruption and hypocrisy on “James Brown” and religion and war on “Lotus.” Throughout the album’s 11-song cycle, Matt’s frustration with society is readily apparent. “But mostly you can hear the frustration I have in myself,” he says. “Like why did I buy into certain things the world has sold me? That’s where I was coming from when I wrote the songs — just looking at the world and realizing it’s full of hypocrites and I’m one too.” Given Matt’s background, it’s not surprising that such searching subject matter would find its way into Cage the Elephant’s songs. The band members hail from Bowling Green, Kentucky — a town where working in the nearby Chevrolet assembly plant or Fruit of the Loom headquarters were the main employment games in town. “It was the kind of place where if you didn’t play football, or you were a little bit different, people thought you were gay,” Matt says. "I didn’t want to be part of that jock world. I liked music so I quit the football team when I was a jr. and started a band. Forming Cage the Elephant was a rebellious thing — a way for us to carve out our own path instead of following the path created by the community that surrounded us.” The Shultz brothers grew up poor, sharing a tiny room in the family’s two-bedroom apartment with two other siblings. “Our dad drove a supply truck and he was gone a lot,” Matt recalls. “There wasn’t a lot of money or anything to do so we would make up goofy songs to pass the time.” At age 12, Brad bought a beat-up guitar from a neighborhood kid for $20 that he played until it literally fell apart. Not long after their parents were divorced, Brad snuck home a cassette of Jimi Hendrix’s Live at Woodstock, which the brothers listened to obsessively for three years, cementing their love for rock and roll. A few years later, Matt bought Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are a-Changin’. “That was a huge, life-changing album for me.” he says. “Just the honesty in Dylan’s music and how he looked at society, it really opened my eyes to how blind we really are.” After the brothers’ parents divorced, the music floodgates opened and they began to devour everything they could find from the Beatles, The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and the Pixies, to name but a few. “A lot of bands put themselves in a box and say, ‘We're not going to be influenced by anything,’ Matt says. “We don’t mind being influenced though. I don't think you should force influence but to fight against it would be like fighting against nature. You have a responsability to innovate but a lot of the time people mistake pretentiousness for innovation and allow that pretentiousness to taint their creativity. What you end up with is very contrived soulless music. Everything we love about music we wanted to put in our own music. When it comes down to it, we just want to make music that we love.”

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Jul 3 2009 7:59 PM

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Jul 3 2009 3:00 AM

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Jul 3 2009 4:36 AM

yay! you guys are in the listening station at work! hopefully ya'll will be down south when i come over! eh eh? :)
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Jul 3 2009 5:44 AM

Saw you guys at Bonnaroo, and it was a great show. Looking forward to having another chance to see you guys live.
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Jul 2 2009 11:01 PM

I want you right here, right now. In Dallas. Get yo' fine asses down here.
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Jul 2 2009 7:51 PM

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Jul 2 2009 7:30 PM

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Jul 2 2009 4:42 PM

Hey Guys !!!
I think you guys have a really awesome sound.
I also want to thank you guys for
helping me win 2n place in a body painting competition.
I was Divine Medusa and I performed
to "There Ain't No Rest for the Wicked " I gave the audience one hell of a show in body paint and a Burlesque performance.
JC Divine xoxoxoxoxo
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Jul 2 2009 2:51 PM

When are you guys coming down to Florida?
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Jul 2 2009 9:38 AM

Hey guys! Congrats on all the success,

Everything
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Jul 2 2009 8:11 PM

Hey dudes. weej here. I'm stoked that y'all are gunna be in grant park again this year rockin' it lollapalooza style like the summmer of 2007. Yes, I will be there. No, I will not be sqaure. Also, I wanted to mention that about a month or two ago I was riding in my car in middle-of-nowhere iowa and I heard a cage the elephant song on the radio. It was unbelievable... and it wasn't on like a college indie radio station either. It was on a station that plays everything from popular horse shit like nickleback to classics like the who, hendrix, etc... Rest assured though, cage the elephant was on the same rock block as radiohead and rage against the machine. Good things. After that the station blew it with some song like "She f#@$in' hates me." That song doesn't deserve letters to complete a curse word even. Anyway, see you guys in August. This time I'll have a motley crew with me.

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Jul 2 2009 9:17 PM

You guys are amazin!!
Just got your cd and it's kickass!! XD
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Jul 2 2009 8:02 AM

You guys are an addiction for me now! You don't know how often your music gets me through the day. You come to central Florida, and I promise you'll be treated well! I'm spreading your name to everybody I know. Thank you for being yourselves and giving so many of us hope for this generation! Love you!!! xoxo
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Jul 2 2009 2:20 PM

Hey, thanks for the add, you guys rock!
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Jul 2 2009 12:44 AM

There were A LOT of people that were hoping to see you guys as one of the bands headlining at the VooDoo Music Fest in New Orleans this year... now there's a lot of really bummed people!! VooDoo Needs you!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 2 2009 1:04 AM

Thanks for the add , you have a great sound !
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Jul 2 2009 5:36 AM

You guys are incredible!
I can't stop listening to your music, talent has renounced it's title back in music!

oh thank the heavenly lords of music.
Anyways, yeah.
Keep gr00vin dudes, you rock!

BTW..no shows in Michigan?

WTF MATE?!
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Jul 2 2009 5:37 AM

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Jul 1 2009 10:37 PM

you guys kick major ass. im just gonna go out on a limb and ask, are you maybe possibly influenced by jack white? i think you guys can match the creativity and ingenuity of that man, and hes my music idol.
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