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Cage The Elephant frontman Matt Shultz is the guest on the latest installment of the SPIN Presents Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about meeting Mick Jagger mid-costume change — in a ballet thong and pantyhose, holding a poem he’d written with a pressed rose in it — and the 3 a.m. dance-off with Jagger at a castle in Paris later that same night.
Plus: opening for Oasis, the arrest and ambulance ride behind “Leave the Light On,” writing “I Love You Anyway” through psychosis and Shultz’s top five frontmen and Cage The Elephant songs. Shultz also opens up about the band’s new album, Dying in Reverse, including the new single “Make It Easy.”
On the previous episode of Lipps Service, Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr rapped about the U.K. rock duo’s unmistakable sound, its new album, Dead Company, sobriety and the experience of Jimmy Page watching the band play.
Since it began in 2018, the acclaimed podcast has featured many of the biggest voices and personalities in music, including exclusive interviews with Anthony Kiedis, David Lee Roth, Hozier, Maynard James Keenan, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Billy Corgan, Mick Fleetwood, Nikki Sixx, Charli xcx, Perry Farrell, Tom Morello, the Kills and many more. Every few weeks, a new episode of SPIN Presents Lipps Service is available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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