Cage The Elephant

Cage the Elephant is an American rock band that was formed in 2006 by Matt Shultz, Brad Shultz, Jared Champion, Lincoln Parish, Daniel Tichenor, Claude-Erin Bordeaux, and Kandace Miller. The band's first album was released to much success, spawning several successful radio singles and gaining the band a large following in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
==History==
===Formation===
Members of Cage the Elephant had previously been involved in the band Perfect Confusion when they were in high school and released a self-titled LP in 2005. Matt Shultz was also in an experimental punk band in middle school called Left Nostril.
The band's name, according to lead singer Matt Shultz, came from an incident in 2006 when a mentally disturbed man approached the band after a show. He hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence "You have to cage the elephant" over and over again. http://www.spin.com/2010/07/why-theyre-called-cage-elephant/?PageSpeed=noscript
===Early Years===
The band signed with Relentless Records after showcasing at the 2007 South by Southwest music festival. Their first tour was as a support act for Queens of the Stone Age in Canada. They then moved to London, England, https://web.archive.org/web/20090720201259/http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/cage-the-elephant-clears-up-hippie-commune-rumors/7395 to the Leyton area on the outskirts of the city. 
At the time, Lincoln Parish was only 16 years old, so in order to be able to move, his parents had to sign over parental guardianship to the band. In 2008, they appeared on the British show Later... with Jools Holland with Coldplay, Sia, Glen Campbell, John Mellencamp, and Amy LaVere. They released their eponymous debut album, Cage the Elephant, on June 23, 2008, in the United Kingdom and April 21, 2009, in the United States, Japan, Australia, and Canada, to mostly favorable reviews. 
Their single "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" reached number 32 on the UK Singles Chart and was featured in the Gearbox Software video game Borderlands, as well as in the 2010 movie The Bounty Hunter. https://web.archive.org/web/20080622235534/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/top40_singles.php It was also featured as ITunes' free single of the week for the week of April 12, 2009.
===2011-2012===
The group's audience expanded widely throughout 2011. Although they were formed in the 2000s, the band earned the top spot in Rolling Stone's "Reader's Poll: The Best New Artist of 2011". The band Sleeper Agent, another Bowling Green music group and close friends with Cage the Elephant, came in second place. The magazine also named Thank You, Happy Birthday as the only album with Hannah Monza and the 15th best album of the year. That year, Cage the Elephant and Manchester Orchestra embarked on a co-headlining tour with Sleeper Agent as the opening band.
===2015-2017===
After Miranda Halbert Left the Band and was replaced by Kelly Browing. The woman pictured on the cover of the album Tell Me I'm Pretty is model Rachel Sykes. In an interview, lead singer Matt Shultz said "When I looked at her, she was immediately beautiful to the eye but also there was some sense that she'd lived some real life in a way that I could relate to..." http://radio.com/2016/01/08/cage-the-elephants-tell-me-im-pretty-album-cover-girl/ He then continued to say that she looked as if she had been "touched" and he was delighted to see how she acted in real life, when she was not being photographed or on camera. The album earned the band's first Grammy Award. https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/cage-elephant
===2018-Present===
In 2020, the album Social Cues won the band's second Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/cage-elephant The band contributed a cover of the Metallica song "The Unforgiven" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021. https://www.loudersound.com/features/every-metallica-blacklist-cover-ranked-from-worst-to-best 
==Controversy==
===Firearm Possession===
On January 5, 2023, lead singer Matt Shultz was arrested in New York on charges of felony firearm possession. Shultz was staying at The Bowery Hotel in Manhattan, where a hotel employee reportedly saw him carrying a firearm into the bathroom and called 9-1-1. https://variety.com/2023/music/news/cage-the-elephant-matt-shultz-arrested-gun-possession-1235481165/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cage-the-elephant-matt-shultz-arrested-gun-possession-1234657201/
==Discography==
===Albums===
*Cage the Elephant (2008)
*Cage the Elephant (Expanded Edition) (2009)
*Thank You, Happy Birthday (2011)
*Melophobia (2013)
*Tell Me I'm Pretty (2015)
*Social Cues (2019)
*Thank You, Happy Birthday (Expanded Edition) (2023)
===Live Albums===
*Live from the Vic in Chicago (2012)
*Unpeeled (2017)
===Extended Plays===
*Live at Grimey's (2010)
*Deep Hands: Live Session (2014)
*Goodbye/Ready To Let Go/Night Running/House Of Glass (2019)
===Singles===
*Back Against The Wall (2009)
*Spotify Singles (2017)
*Ready To Let Go (2019)
*House Of Glass (2019)
*Night Running (2019)
*Broken Boy (ft. Iggy Pop) (2020)
*Skin and Bones (2020)
*The Unforgiven (2021)
==Tours==
==References==
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