Cage The Elephant are out with the music video to their new single ‘Trouble’, off the Bowling Green, Kentucky rock band’s fourth studio album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’, out now on RCA Records. Watch the Matt Shultz directed video via YouTube below.
Cage The Elephant’s Matt Shultz Discusses Bowling Green Music Scene
Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review Journal spoke with Cage the Elephant singer Matt Shultz about the music scene that has broken out of late in their hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, such at Sleeper Agent. “It’s really cool here,” he said. “It seems like every couple of weeks, there’s a new band that’s amazing. It’s not just Bowling Green. It’s the area. There’s not a lot to do in Bowling Green. It’s definitely one of those towns where you have to entertain yourself, so a lot of kids are doing stuff like that.”
Cage The Elephant Discuss Acoustic Shows & Bowling Green
Cage The Elephant recently chatted with Jared Sagal of Rockerrazzi. The Bowling Green, Kentucky rock group went down the famous Haunted Elevator at the 98.7 FM Penthouse at The Historic Hollywood Tower in Los Angeles and talked about the process of doing an acoustic show, how they’re treated in their home town, and did some elephant trivia. Watch it via YouTube below.
Cage The Elephant ‘Shake Me Down’ Video
Cage The Elephant are out with the music video to their new single ‘Shake Me Down’, off the Bowling Green, Kentucky alternative rock band’s second studio album ‘Thank You, Happy Birthday’, out now on Relentless Records. Watch it via Vevo below.
Matthew Shultz On Why His Band Is Called Cage The Elephant
Spin.com asked Cage the Elephant singer Matthew Shultz what was the story behind their band name for their “Name that band!” feature. “We were in Knoxville, Tennessee, hanging outside a club after a show—this is probably in 2006,” Shultz recalled, “and we saw this guy with a shaved head and a long goatee yelling and screaming and talking to himself. I’m pretty sure he had some mental issues going on. He all of a sudden beelined towards us. Everyone jumped into our car and shut the doors. But I didn’t make it into the car. I was stuck outside. I thought for sure the guy was gonna stab me or something, but then he came up to me and gave me a hug. The whole time he was saying, ‘You have to cage the elephant, you have to cage the elephant.’ Afterwards, I was like, ‘We gotta name the band that.'” Read more.
Cage The Elephant’s Second Album To Explore Underground Post ’80s Punk
ARTISTdirect spoke with Matt and Brad Shultz of Cage the Elephant in a Q&A, asking the brothers what fans can expect with their second album, tentatively titled ‘Computer Says Move’, out later this year. “We got into a lot of underground post ’80s punk which kind of became the mainstream of the early ’90s like The Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Toadies, Pavement, The Butthole Surfers, Gang of Four, Violent Femmes, Black Flag and Daniel Johnston,” Matt said. Brad added, “It’s the stuff we didn’t discover enough of when we were kids.” Read more.
Cage The Elephant ‘In One Ear’ Video
Cage The Elephant are out with the video to their new single ‘In One Ear’, off the Bowling Green, Kentucky rock group’s self-titled debut album, out now on Jive Records. Watch it via YouTube below the cut. (more…)
Cage The Elephant Perform ‘Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked’
Cage The Elephant performed an acoustic version of ‘Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked’ from Austin, Texas at the Gibson Showroom for 5 Gum. The song is off the Bowling Green, Kentucky rock group’s self-titled debut album.
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Cage The Elephant ‘Back Against The Wall’ Video
Cage the Elephant are out with the video to their new single ‘Back Against The Wall’, off the Bowling Green, Kentucky rock group’s self-titled debut album, out now on Relentless Records. Watch it via mtvU below the cut. (more…)
Cage The Elephant Perform On Chicago’s Q101
Bowling Green, Kentucky alt-rock group Cage the Elephant perform a new version of ‘Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked’, while Matt Shultz went solo on ‘Cover Me Again’, live in studio on Q101 in Chicago. Watch both performances via the stations’ YouTube channel below the cut. (more…)
