New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Cage The Elephant's newest single, "Ready To Let Go," has hit #1 at Alternative
Radio in both the US and Canada. The single is from their forthcoming fifth studio album, Social Cues, out on April 19th on RCA Records. "Ready To Let Go," marks the band's 8th Alternative #1. The song immediately found its footing, scoring the band its best airplay chart debut in its near-decade career.
Cage The Elephant has achieved more #1s at the format than any band this decade. The single is also headed into Top 15 at Active Rock and top 3 at AAA. "Ready To Let Go," along with album track, "House of Glass" are now available as instant grats for those who pre-order the album HERE.
Cage The Elephant has also recently announced The Night Running Tour where they will be co-headlining with Beck, who is featured on the album track "Night Running."
Spoon will open all dates as a special guest with additional support from Starcrawler, Sunflower Bean and Wild Belle in select cities. Full dates below. Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com. Beck and
Cage The Elephant have partnered up with PLUS1 and $1 from every ticket sold will be donated back into each city they are playing in, supporting local food security initiatives as they work towards ending hunger in their communities. Prior to the tour, the band is headlining Shaky Knees Festival on May 4th in Atlanta.
Watch Video for "
Ready To Let Go"
Social Cues was produced by John Hill (Santigold, Florence + The Machine, Portugal. The Man, tUnE-yArDs), recorded at
Battle Tapes Recording, Blackbird Studio and Sound Emporium in Nashville and The Village Recording Studio in Los Angeles, and mixed by Tom Elmhirst and mastered by Randy Merrill in New York City.
Deeply inspired by punk music, brothers Matt and Brad Shultz began playing music in high-school with fellow students Jared
Champion and
Daniel Tichenor. Shortly after forming the band, they made the bold move to London to begin their career. Their self-titled debut album gained them international attention, catapulting them up the Billboard Alternative and Rock charts and achieving RIAA Platinum certification. Cage the Elephant has released three additional studio albums - 2011's Thank You, Happy Birthday, the Gold-certified Melophobia and the GRAMMY®-winning Tell Me I'm Pretty. At radio,
Cage The Elephant holds the record for the most #1 Alternative songs of any artist this decade.
Cage The Elephant have had 7 Billboard #1 singles with 11 singles landing in the Billboard Top 10 and digitally have a combined 1.5 billion streams worldwide. Their most recent release was their expansive live album, Unpeeled, which found the band performing stripped down and backed by a string quartet and a choir. Based in Nashville,
Cage The Elephant is vocalist Matt Shultz, rhythm guitarist Brad Shultz, drummer Jared Champion, bassist
Daniel Tichenor, lead guitarist Nick Bockrath and keyboardist Matthan Minster.
TOUR DATES:
May 4 - Atlanta, GA at Shaky Knees
Music Festival
July 11 - Ridgefield, WA at Sunlight Supply Amphitheater*^
July 13 - George, WA at The Gorge*^
July 16 - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheater*^
July 17 - Irvine, CA at Five Point Amphitheater*^
July 19 - Las Vegas, NV at Park Theater*^
July 20 - Chula Vista,CA at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre*^
July 21 - Phoenix, AZ at Ak-Chin Pavilion*^
July 23 - Denver, CO at Fiddler's Green Amphitheater*^
July 26 - Austin, TX at Austin 360 Amphitheater*#
July 27 - Dallas, TX at The Dos Equis Pavilion*#
July 28 - Houston, TX at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*#
July 30 - St. Louis, MO at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater*#
July 31 - Chicago, IL at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island*#
August 2 - Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend
Music Center*#
August 3 - Detroit, MI at DTE
Energy Music Theater*#
August 4 - Indianapolis, IN at Ruoff Home Mortgage
Music Center*#
August 11 - Toronto, ON at Budweiser Stage*&
August 12 -
Saratoga Springs, NY at
Saratoga Performing Arts Center*&
August 13 - Darien Center, NY at Darien Lake Amphitheater*&
August 15 - Mansfield, MA at Xfinity Center*&
August 16 - Gilford, NH at Bank of New Hampshire*&
August 17 - New York, NY at Forest Hill Stadium*
August 20 - Holmdel, NJ at PNC Bank Arts Center*&
August 21 - Camden, NJ at BB&T Pavilion*&
August 22 - Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion*&
August 24 - Raleigh, NC at Coastal Credit Union
Music Park*&
August 25 - Charlotte, NC at PNC
Music Pavilion*&
August 27 - Birmingham, AL at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre*&
August 29 - Tampa, FL at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre*&
August 30 - West Palm Beach, FL at
Coral Sky Amphitheatre*&
* co-headlining with Beck, with special guest Spoon
^ with Starcrawler
# with Wild Belle
& with Sunflower Bean
SOCIAL CUES TRACK LISTING:
Broken Boy
Social Cues
Black Madonna
Night Running (Cage The Elephant, Beck)
Skin and Bones
Ready To Let Go
House of Glass
Love's the Only Way
The War is Over
Dance Dance
What I'm Becoming
Tokyo Smoke
Goodbye
