Cage The Elephant to kick-start summer tour in West Valley City this June

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC4) — This summer, Grammy Award-winning rock band Cage The Elephant will be taking the stage throughout the U.S. on a massive 45-date tour. The tour will begin with a show at the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in West Valley City, on June 20.

The presale starts today, March 5, with a general sale beginning Friday, March 8. Special guests Young the Giant and Bakar will be joining them on a majority of the dates, including in Utah.

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At the same time they announced the tour, the Kentucky-based group also shared details about the release of their sixth full-length album Neon Pill, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2019’s Social Cues, which took home a Grammy for “Best Rock Album.”

Neon Pill is set to come out May 17, about one month before the tour starts. The band has already given fans a taste of its sound with two singles, including the title track which came out in January. A second single, “Out Loud”, was released last week and is described as the emotional centerpiece of the album.

The album comes at a difficult crossroads for some of the band members. Early in the pandemic, brothers Matthew Shultz [vocals] and Brad Shultz [guitar] lost their father. The new album and song take much inspiration from the challenges they have faced in the aftermath.

“‘Out Loud’ is very connected to my father,” stated Matthew Shultz in a press release. “My dad’s the reason we discovered music in the first place. When he died, ‘Out Loud’ just poured out of me. My efforts towards the song were deeply rooted in paying honor to him, and I knew it meant a lot to Brad too.”

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Neon Pill is also shaped by the band dealing with multiple deaths of friends and other personal trials. In the album, the band is expected to be exploring new musical ground, while also still maintaining their classic Cage The Elephant sound and creativity.

“To me, Neon Pill is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” said Matthew Shultz. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree. With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves. We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self-expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.”

The new album Neon Pill can be pre-ordered online.

Tour dates are as follows:

• June 20 – West Valley City, UT at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre^

• June 22 – Seattle, WA at Climate Pledge Arena^

• June 23 – Ridgefield, WA at RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater^

• June 24 – Bend, OR at Hayden Homes Amphitheater^

• June 26 – Vancouver, BC at Rogers Arena^

• June 28 – Edmonton, AB at Rogers Place^

• June 30 – Spokane, WA at BECU Live at Northern Quest^

• July 2 – San Francisco, CA at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium*

• July 3 – Santa Barbara, CA at Santa Barbara Bowl^

• July 5 – Phoenix, AZ at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre^

• July 6 – San Diego, CA at Viejas Arena^

• July 7 – Los Angeles, CA at Kia Forum^

• July 9 – Albuquerque, NM at Isleta Amphitheater^

• July 11 – Austin, TX at Moody Center^

• July 12 – Houston, TX at  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman^

• July 13 – Fort Worth, TX at Dickies Arena^

• July 15 – Rogers, AR at Walmart AMP^

• Aug 2 – Alpharetta, GA at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre*

• Aug 3 – Raleigh, NC at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek^

• Aug 4 – Charlotte, NC at PNC Music Pavilion*

• Aug 7 – Noblesville, IN at Ruoff Music Center^

• Aug 8 – Madison, WI at Breese Stevens Field^

• Aug 10 – Winnipeg, MB at Canada Life Centre^

• Aug 12 – Minneapolis, MN at Target Center^

• Aug 14 – Chicago, IL at Credit Union 1 Arena at UIC^

• Aug 16 – Grand Rapids, MI at Van Andel Arena^

• Aug 18 – Saratoga Springs, NY at Broadview Stage at SPAC^

• Aug 19 – Bridgeport, CT at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater^

• Aug 21 – Gilford, NH at BankNH Pavilion^

• Aug 22 – Mansfield, MA at Xfinity Center*

• Aug 24 – Holmdel, NJ at PNC Bank Arts Center^

• Aug 26 – Montreal, QC at Centre Bell^

• Aug 27 – Toronto, ON at Budweiser Stage^

• Aug 29 – Burgettstown, PA at The Pavilion at Star Lake^

• Aug 30 – Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend Music Center^

• Sept 5 – New York, NY at Madison Square Garden^

• Sept 6 – Philadelphia, PA at TD Pavilion at the Mann^

• Sept 7 – Lewiston, NY at Artpark Mainstage Theater^

• Sept 9 – Cleveland, OH at Blossom Music Center^

• Sept 10 – Detroit, MI at Pine Knob Music Theatre^

• Sept 12 – St. Louis, MO at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre^

• Sept 13 – Des Moines, IA at Wells Fargo Arena^

• Sept 14 – Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre^

• Sept 16 – Omaha, NE at CHI Health Center Omaha^

• Sept 18 – Denver, CO at Red Rocks Amphitheatre*

^with Young The Giant and Bakar

* with Bakar

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