With influences stretching from "Helter Skelter" to Television and the Strokes, Dan Luke and the Raid make buzzy indie rock that both embraces and cuts across the decades of rock and punk that preceded them. The group's debut album, Out of the Blue, arrived in 2019. Dan Luke and the Raid is led by singer and songwriter Daniel Luke Shultz, sibling of Cage the Elephant's Brad and Matt Shultz. Over a decade younger, Daniel was just ten years old when his brothers left their home outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky to tour abroad for the first time. Left to his own devices (with older brother Jeremy also out of the house), he would spend hours at a time with his guitar, even playing along with commercial jingles that came on TV. In high school, he teamed up drummer Kendrick Don-Reid Brent and they eventually formed Dan Luke and the Raid with guitarist Patrick Stewart and multi-instrumentalists Dylan T. Graves and J. Anthony Joiner. The group issued their debut single, “Black Cat Heavy Metal," in mid-2017 before embarking on a tour in support of Declan McKenna. Down to a quartet with Stewart exiting the lineup, the band made their Bonnaroo debut in June 2018 before recording their first album later that year in Nashville. Brad Shultz produced. The Raid made another festival debut, this time at 2019's South by Southwest festival, just a few weeks before Graves was killed in an accident at his day job. The remaining members eventually decided to forge ahead as a band, playing a show in Bowling Green as a tribute to their bandmate. The full-length Out of the Blue followed on New West Records in October 2019. ~ Marcy Donelson