Cage the Elephant’s Matt Shultz Arrested for Gun Possession

Cage the Elephant frontman Matt Shultz was jailed on Thursday (Jan 5) in New York City, Billboard can validate.

The 39-year-old vocalist was jailed with 2 fees of criminal property of a tool after cops discovered 2 packed guns in his area at the Bowery Hotel, according to the NYPD. The apprehension was available in reaction to a 911 telephone call around 10 a.m. reporting that there was an individual in property of a tool. Shultz invested the evening at the 9th district inLower Manhattan

Billboard has actually connected to Cage the Elephant‘s representatives to learn more, though gotten no reaction at the time of magazine.

The prize-winning rock band launched their newest cd, Social Cues, in 2019. The cd took place to win ideal rock cd at the 2020Grammys “During the making of the record as a whole we were pretty obsessed with horror movies,” guitar player Brad Shultz, Matt’s older sibling, stated of the cd’s 2nd solitary, “House of Glass,” at the time. “We wanted the song to have a horror film feel and John Carpenter has always been a favorite of ours. Fun fact, he is from Bowling Green, Kentucky, our home own, and actually dated our bass player’s mother when they were teenagers.”

Social Cues came complying with 2015’s Tell Me I’m Pretty, which additionally won the Grammy for ideal rock cd.

Matt developed Cage the Elephant back in 2006 with his older sibling Brad Shultz, along with Jared Champion, Daniel Tichenor as well as Lincoln Parish, that left the band in 2013.

Source: billboard.com

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