Cage the Elephant

While I have a deep passion live music, it’s not very often I splurge on seeing an artist more than once. Typically, I make a list of all the artists that I love and would one day want to see and once it happens, I cross them off my list and hope that at some point in the future, I’ll develop the urge to see them again.

There are however, a handful of artists that I will pay to see time and time again, not only because of the quality and my adoration of their music, but because seeing them live elevates their music to a whole new level. One of those artists on my list, is a little band from Kentucky called Cage the Elephant.

Imagine if Mick Jagger accidentally drank from the fountain of youth and was restored back to his twenty-six-year-old self and that is what you’ll find in Cage the Elephant frontman, Matt Shultz. While every member of the band is both talented and entertaining to see preform, Shultz’s on-stage energy and dance moves steal the show every time. From his sparkly shoes to his eccentric, onstage wardrobe, anyone who has seen him preform live can admit they feel as if they’ve bee transported back to the sixties to see The Stones in concert.

I’ve been lucky enough to see them preform twice and each time it has left me with my hands holding onto my face in wonder at how one group can bring so much intensity and spirit into one crowd.

Their music will have you dancing, head banging, and singing at the top of your lungs. It’s very much the carefree feeling of dancing alone in your bedroom, but surrounded by thousands of people who are doing the exact same thing too.

Their genre is a mix between indie and alternative rock, but if you’d like to give them a listen, I’ve provided a youtube link of their song, “Take It Or Leave It,” which is one of my all-time favorites. As always, I’ve provided a little clip of the time I saw them at the Moody Theatre in Austin.