Cage The Elephant Sharing Success As Brothers

It's well publicized that brothers that tour together sometimes are often at each other's throats. The Black Crowes and Oasis both immediately come to mind, but that necessarily isn't always the rule. Kentucky's own Cage The Elephant, which consists of brothers Matt and Brad Shultz are enjoying tremendous worldwide success after the release of their self titled debut album which debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #38 rose to #67 on the Billboard 200 chart. Fronted by energetic lead vocalist Matt Shultz and guitarist Brad Shultz, Cage The Elephant will look to build on their success of their debut album as they head back into the studio soon to record their highly anticipated sophomore album.

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Artisan News caught up with Matt and Brad of Cage The Elephant to get their thoughts on enjoying all the success together and when they initially became interested in forming a band together.

 Cage The Elephant A Family Affair

"It's good. Yeah, it's good. I mean we've always been pretty close so why would I want to share it with anyone else. My dad's a musician. He's basically where we started kind of wanting to play music. When our parents got divorced me and Brad used to sit back in a little room in our grandparents house and just jam and write songs. That's kind of how it started."

Cage The Elephant will start another round of touring in support of their debut album with dates kicking off September 12th in Indianapolis, In and extending until September 30th in Knoxville, Tn. Cage The Elephant are already writing new material for their next album and the band will look to get in the studio by the end of the year and hopefully have a new album in 2010.

Comments

[thelloyd89]

dude they suck live, the singer SUCKKKKSSSS doesn't sound anything like the record, just squeaky and weak, and the playing was spotty at times. i've seen them twice, once at bonnaroo then at grimeys record store in nashville, where they had equipment problems during tiny little robots, just imagine that song with out the bass line [wow sucky] dissappointed because of how good the album was and how lacking the live act was. be warned

[thelloyd89]

dude they suck live, the singer SUCKKKKSSSS i've seen them twice, once at bonnaroo then at grimeys record store, dissappointed because of how good the album was and how lacking the live act was.

[David_Bowie=GOD]

I saw them open for Silversun Pickups a while back and for anyone who doesn't know, none of their other songs sound like that single Ain't No Rest for the Wicked. They were hit-and-miss, some of the songs were good, some of them just sucked. Brad looks like he suffers from a mental illness when he performs live, and not in the "omg he's insane awesome!!" way, more in the Wesley Willis kind of way.

[soupdragon]

Yeah, the debut was pretty rubbish. 3 good songs and a load of filler.

[RockUAway]

I just bought their album, they are very talented