{"id":2357800,"date":"2026-04-04T00:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2357800"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:41:23","slug":"soulcage-has-new-music-to-share-and-stages-to-scorch-across-iowa-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/soulcage-has-new-music-to-share-and-stages-to-scorch-across-iowa-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulcage has new music to share and stages to scorch across Iowa this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Members of Soulcage \u2014 photo courtesy of the artists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2023, the band now known as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/soulcage_official?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\">Soulcage<\/a> was playing the basement of a Des Moines fraternity house. The crowd was expecting some frat party jams. Instead, they got a grungy slap in face that might have left those in attendance bruised and wondering what, or who, they had walked into.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Soulcage doesn\u2019t play a lot of fraternity houses anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the band is headlining local venues around Iowa, including a performance at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/littlevillagemag.com\/events\/#!\/details\/the-nocturnal-affair-lines-of-loyalty-soulcage\/18424424\/2026-04-03T16\">xBk Live in Des Moines<\/a> on Monday, April 6. Soulcage will be one of the bands in the lineup for the Hellraiser Appreciation show, a free concert presented by Lazer 103.3 to celebrate 30 years of the Pella-based rock station.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>This show is one of several across the state this month, including at Wildwood in Iowa City on April 12 and the Loft in Waterloo on April 17. This is all amidst a rollout of new music, including a new single drop for \u201cW.D.Y.W.F.M.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/3114931345363005\">this Friday, April 3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a busy time for Soulcage, a long way removed from basement house shows at frats. I chatted with Soulcage about the formation of the band, its early days and where they\u2019re headed next.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Soulcage: On Fire (Des Moines, Iowa - January 4, 2025)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Ok30YP6M2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s 2020, Ace Tipton and AJ Fucaloro have been jamming together for a few months in Fucaloro\u2019s basement with a few other people. Eventually, they start looking for a new guitarist. In comes Jayden Young, a 15-year-old with the ability to melt your face off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just this prodigy. He has been doing lessons for years, and so we bring him over, and he\u2019s just a total rock star,\u201d Tipton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Over the next couple of years, Tipton, Fucaloro and Young continue to play with their cover band around Iowa, even winning a talent competition at the Iowa Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. But creative differences and a wish to start writing their own music pulled that band apart, leaving the three boys on their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, it was just me, AJ and Jayden; we were looking for a singer and a guitar player,\u201d Tipton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tipton invited a friend from middle school, Anthony Cooper, to fill the second guitarist spot. Finally, the band found their lead singer, Jayden \u201cErdy\u201d Erdman, through Facebook \u2014 though not without some confusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was Jayden [Young] at first because he just had a Pearl Jam cover photo,\u201d Tipton said. \u201cI mean, his name is Jayden, too. It\u2019s Erdy, but it\u2019s Jayden. So, I thought it was just a Facebook page that [Young] made to get away from his parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>As the quintet started writing their own music, they decided to go by the name Monstrophe, a moniker they\u2019d keep till the end of 2023 and pay homage to through their debut album of the same name, which came out on June 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re Soulcage, but those are Monstrophe songs,\u201d Erdman said. \u201cAll of them are written or conceived or thought of when we were named that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we were all just trying to get our feet wet and mesh together as a group musically and cohesively,\u201d Tipton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That process of coming together resulted in a debut sporting a blend of classic rock, grunge and alternative with a heavy mix of distorted guitars. The tracks throughout containing leads sharp enough to shave with and a thick rhythm section that drives their sound forward. It\u2019s a fully realized effort for a young band finding themselves, though the members shared just how much their process evolved along the way.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-4    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cFrom a songwriting experience, it\u2019s such a stark difference from the stuff that we wrote towards the start [of the album] to the very end,\u201d shares Tipton. \u201cLike \u2018On Fire\u2019 was the first song that\u2019s on this record that we wrote together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Fire\u201d is driven almost entirely by a greased-up bass riff provided by Tipton, accented by a guitar poking it\u2019s head over the shoulder as if to ask \u201cwhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the process of going from that, where it\u2019s like \u2018So and so has a riff. Everyone\u2019s going to mesh with it, add our own little flavor to it.\u2019 But for the most part, it revolves around one person, whereas stuff that we wrote towards the back half of the album\u2014 like \u2018Clouds\u2019 is the last song that we actually wrote for the album. That one\u2019s so much more holistic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Soulcage - Clouds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sfs2rByWMzk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Erdman frames their album as a reflection on the coming-of-age journeys of its members, all the way up to the present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-5    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a compilation of all the shared experiences we\u2019ve had in the band and then separately as individuals,\u201d Erdman said.<\/p>\n<p>Soulcage is currently gearing up to release six new songs over the course of 2026 with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWqzKl3lWzH\/\">latest single, \u201cW.D.Y.W.F.M\u201d<\/a> releasing April 3, and more to come soon. It\u2019s a release schedule of a band confident in their trajectory, who understands that their formative experiences have created a band stronger than their individual parts. <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming event:<\/h3>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source littlevillagemag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Soulcage \u2014 photo courtesy of the artists In 2023, the band now known as Soulcage was playing the basement of a Des Moines fraternity house. The crowd was expecting some frat party jams. 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