Cage the Elephant frontman Matt Shultz was arrested on Thursday (Jan. 5) in New York Metropolis, Billboard can affirm.
The 39-year-old singer was arrested with two costs of prison possession of a weapon after police discovered two loaded firearms in his room on the Bowery Resort, based on the NYPD. The arrest got here in response to a 911 telephone name round 10 a.m. reporting that there was an individual in possession of a weapon. Shultz spent the evening on the ninth precinct in Decrease Manhattan.
Billboard has reached out to Cage the Elephant’s reps for extra info, although acquired no response on the time of publication.
The award-winning rock band launched their most up-to-date album, Social Cues, in 2019. The album went on to win greatest rock album on the 2020 Grammys. “Through the making of the document as an entire we have been fairly obsessive about horror films,” guitarist Brad Shultz, Matt’s older brother, mentioned of the album’s second single, “Home of Glass,” on the time. “We wished the music to have a horror movie really feel and John Carpenter has all the time been a favourite of ours. Enjoyable reality, he’s from Bowling Inexperienced, Kentucky, our residence personal, and really dated our bass participant’s mom after they have been youngsters.”
Social Cues got here following 2015’s Inform Me I’m Fairly, which additionally gained the Grammy for greatest rock album.
Matt fashioned Cage the Elephant again in 2006 along with his older brother Brad Shultz, in addition to Jared Champion, Daniel Tichenor and Lincoln Parish, who left the band in 2013.
