Cage the Elephant visits ASU
Nicholas B. Francis
Issue date: 2/23/10 Section: Arts & Life
The modern-rock band, Cage the Elephant, performed a live acoustic show in the Jaguar Student Activities Center on Feb. 15 to a near-capacity audience.
Originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, the five-man band has worked its way up from relative obscurity to become one of the most well-known names on popular radio today. Their hit songs "Ain't No Rest For the Wicked" and "Back Against the Wall" are easily recognizable to anyone familiar with today's music scene.
With a sound that refuses to be caged by a single musical genre, the band mixes their love of different styles of music to produce an undeniably unique sound that is both explosively experimental and comfortably familiar at the same time.
Although many music critics like to take the easy way out by comparing the group to other artists like "Artic Monkeys" and "Beck," there is no way to describe them in terms of any other groups. Cage the Elephant simply sounds like Cage the Elephant.
Matt Schultz, the band's lead singer, along with the band's two guitarists, Brad Schultz (who is Matt's brother) and Lincoln Parish, sat down with us for an interview after their performance to discuss their new album, their musical influences and what the future holds for Cage the Elephant.
BR: Do you normally play small shows like this?
Matt: Actually, we just played a show in our hometown. It wasn't really a show; it was just like six songs. We just got up in our hometown bar and played.
Lincoln: We just kept it a secret and announced it like 5 hours before. We played, and it was at capacity, like you couldn't get in until someone walked out. That was pretty exciting.
Matt: We do a lot of radio performances and stuff like this as well.
BR: How many more dates do you have on the tour for this year?
Matt: I think that we'll probably be spending most of the summer doing a little light touring of our own and preparing for our new record. We just finished our new record and we're going to be releasing that.
Originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, the five-man band has worked its way up from relative obscurity to become one of the most well-known names on popular radio today. Their hit songs "Ain't No Rest For the Wicked" and "Back Against the Wall" are easily recognizable to anyone familiar with today's music scene.
With a sound that refuses to be caged by a single musical genre, the band mixes their love of different styles of music to produce an undeniably unique sound that is both explosively experimental and comfortably familiar at the same time.
Although many music critics like to take the easy way out by comparing the group to other artists like "Artic Monkeys" and "Beck," there is no way to describe them in terms of any other groups. Cage the Elephant simply sounds like Cage the Elephant.
Matt Schultz, the band's lead singer, along with the band's two guitarists, Brad Schultz (who is Matt's brother) and Lincoln Parish, sat down with us for an interview after their performance to discuss their new album, their musical influences and what the future holds for Cage the Elephant.
BR: Do you normally play small shows like this?
Matt: Actually, we just played a show in our hometown. It wasn't really a show; it was just like six songs. We just got up in our hometown bar and played.
Lincoln: We just kept it a secret and announced it like 5 hours before. We played, and it was at capacity, like you couldn't get in until someone walked out. That was pretty exciting.
Matt: We do a lot of radio performances and stuff like this as well.
BR: How many more dates do you have on the tour for this year?
Matt: I think that we'll probably be spending most of the summer doing a little light touring of our own and preparing for our new record. We just finished our new record and we're going to be releasing that.
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