Cage the Elephant frontman singer Matt Shultz was arrested on Thursday (January 5) in New York city. After police found two loaded firearms in his room at the Bowery Hotel, the 39-year-old musician was detained on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and he did not have a valid license for the same, according to the NYPD.
Around 10 a.m., a 911 caller reported that there was a person in possession of a firearm. This led to the arrest. Shultz spent the night at the Lower Manhattan 9th Precinct.
2019 have seen the release of Social Cues, the group’s most recent album. At the 2020 Grammy Awards, the album went on to win best rock album. In regards to the album’s second single, “House of Glass,” guitarist Brad Shultz, Matt’s older brother, said at the time “Throughout the development of the record as a whole we were quite infatuated with horror movies.”
John Carpenter has always been one of our favourite directors, and we wanted the song to have a horror movie vibe. He is from Bowling Green, Kentucky, our hometown, and when they were teenagers, he dated our bass player’s mother.
Cage the Elephant has won the Grammy for best rock album twice, for both “Tell Me I’m Pretty” from 2015 and “Social Cues” from 2019. The band’s 2013 album, “Melophobia,” which featured the hits “Cigarette Daydreams” and “Come a Little Closer,” was nominated for best alternative music album.
On November 20, 2022, the ensemble gave its most recent performance at the Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival in San Diego, California.
