Cage the Elephant has been unleashing its music and garnering rapturous praise (their set at this year’s KJEE Summer-Roundup at the Santa Barbara Bowl was highly lauded) following the release of its most recent album, “Thank You, Happy Birthday.”  And recently they’ve been breaking out at the Big L’s:  Leno and Lollapalooza.

To help try and burn through this gray weather malaise, check out singer Mathhew Shultz below channeling Cobain vocally and the band paying homage in Aberdeen on Leno last night (while also sprinkling a pinch of the Pixies’ dust).  And below that watch the band performing the touching Shake Me Down done sing-a-long stylee at Lollapalooza in the rain (during the chorus you can hear all those Glastonbury crowds’ singing lessons finally seeming to yield sing-a-long benefits at the other festivals).  “Even on a cloudy day” indeed.

Here’s Shake Me Down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIStRqQu7pA&feature=player_embedded