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Songs For A Breakup, Vol. 1
''Songs for a Breakup: Vol. 1'' is the debut studio EP by the American indie rock band Fitz and the Tantrums, released on August 11, 2009 through Canyon Productions. It was re-released in 2010 when the band signed to Dangerbird Records. Track listing Personnel * Michael Fitzpatrick * Noelle Scaggs * Joseph Karnes * James King * Jeremy Ruzumna * John Wicks Additional personnel *Chris Seefried – producer, guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards *Maya Azucena – vocals *Sebastian Steinberg – bass *Matt Cooker – cello *Stewart Cole – trumpet *Scott Ellis – drums *Tay Strathairn – pianoChris Constable– mixing *Josh Brochhausen – mixing *Gavin Lurssen Gavin Lurssen is an American mastering engineer. He owns Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitz And The Tantrums
Fitz and the Tantrums are an American indie pop and neo soul band from Los Angeles, California, that formed in 2008. The band consists of Michael Fitzpatrick (lead vocals), Noelle Scaggs (co-lead vocals and percussion), James King (saxophone, flute, keyboard, percussion and guitar), Joseph Karnes (bass guitar), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards) and John Wicks (drums and percussion). Their debut studio album, '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'', was released in August 2010 on indie label Dangerbird Records and received critical acclaim. It reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers chart. The band signed to their current label Elektra Records in early 2013 and went on to release their second LP, '' More Than Just a Dream,'' the same year. Their self-titled third album was released in 2016, which contains their most notable song " HandClap". Their fourth studio album, ''All the Feels'', was released in 2019. History Early history Fitz and the Tantrums was founded by Michael Fitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo Soul
Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) is a genre of popular music. As a term, it was coined by music industry entrepreneur Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B. Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than its contemporary R&B counterpart, with incorporated elements ranging from funk, jazz fusion, hip hop, and African music to pop, rock, and electronic music. It has been noted by music writers for its traditional R&B influences, conscious-driven lyrics, and strong female presence. Neo soul developed during the 1980s and early 1990s, in the United States and United Kingdom, as a soul revival movement. It earned mainstream success during the 1990s, with the commercial and critical breakthroughs of several artists, including D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell. Their music was marketed as an alternative to the producer-driven, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerbird Records
Dangerbird Records is an independent record label in Los Angeles, California. The label is home to artists from around the world and part of the burgeoning Silver Lake music scene. The label has had international success from its small roster of artists including Silversun Pickups, Fitz and the Tantrums, Sebadoh, Minus the Bear, and The Frights History The two founders represented different roles in the music industry. Jeff Castelaz had managed Feist, Phoenix, Citizen King, and others, while Peter Walker was a singer-songwriter. The label's first release: Walker's solo album ''Landed''. Their business approach includes a strong emphasis on artist development, and working with a network of partners to help the bands reach a wide market. In 2006, Dangerbird gained repute after releasing ''Carnavas'', the debut full-length album by Silversun Pickups, to sales of over 450,000. The band's lead singer Brian Aubert has said of Dangerbird, "They believe in careers, and the long ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Seefried
Chris Seefried is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the bands Gods Child, Joe 90, and Low Stars, and as producer and co-writer for the neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums. Career Gods Child (1992–1996) Seefried's career in the United States started when a cassette tape of "Everybody's 1" was heard by Prince, who stopped the song midway through, ejected the tape and declared "this is mine". That song and four other psychedelic rock and soul tracks found their way to legendary artist, producer, musician and then record company president Quincy Jones and his A&R man Hugo Burnham, drummer from English post-punk band Gang of Four. After flying to New York City to see Gods Child perform one of many shows at New York's CBGB, they signed the band to Warner Bros. Records via Quincy's imprint label Qwest. The band's first record, ''Everybody'', was written and produced by Seefried with bandmate Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickin' Up The Pieces (Fitz And The Tantrums Album)
''Pickin' Up the Pieces'' is the debut studio album by American band Fitz and the Tantrums, released on August 24, 2010, by Dangerbird Records. After the success of their home-recorded debut EP, ''Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1'' and touring, Dangerbird signed the group, who immediately began work on ''Pieces''. The band drew inspiration from various musical tastes, including Motown records and soul music, and recorded the album in vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick's living room, which he dubbed Dillon Street Studios. It was produced by Fitzpatrick and Chris Seefried. Upon its release, ''Pickin' Up the Pieces'' charted at number one on ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers and received generally positive reviews from music critics. Background Michael Fitzpatrick, vocalist, founded the group shortly after a break-up. Having a hard time after the breakup, Fitzpatrick came to the conclusion that he needed to release the energy through creativity and get a focus and direction, for the sole pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of records other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fitzpatrick (musician)
Michael Sean "Fitz" Fitzpatrick (born 21 July 1970) is a French-born American musician and singer-songwriter, who is the lead vocalist of the indie pop/ neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums. Fitz and the Tantrums were heralded as a "band to watch" in an April 2011 profile in ''Rolling Stone''. Their 2010 debut full-length album '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'' received critical acclaim and reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. In May 2021, Fitzpatrick released his debut solo album ''Head Up High''. Biography Born in Montluçon, France, Fitzpatrick grew up in Los Angeles. His father, Robert Fitzpatrick, is Irish American and his mother, Sylvie, is French. He attended the L.A. County High School for the Arts, studying vocal music and then studied experimental film at the California Institute of the Arts, where he met fellow band member James King. Although he now composes primarily on the piano and organ, he only had formal piano training later in life. He has said, "I'd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Gotta Work It Out
"Don't Gotta Work It Out" is a song by American band Fitz and the Tantrums from their debut studio album '' Pickin' Up the Pieces''. Music video The song's music video debuted on VH1 on September 20, 2011. The music video, which was directed by Charles Haine and produced by Chris Uettwiller via Dirty Robber, was shot at night on location in Bakersfield, California Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's populat .... Charts References Fitz and The Tantrums songs 2010 songs 2011 singles {{2010s-rock-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noelle Scaggs
Noelle Scaggs (born October 8, 1979) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, known as the co-lead singer of the pop group Fitz and the Tantrums. Scaggs has also had numerous collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas, Dilated Peoples, Quantic, Mayer Hawthorne, and Damian Marley. In 2008 she became a co-lead singer of the indie pop and neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums, and is featured on their 2010 album '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'', which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. She has toured extensively with the band and performed on shows such as ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ellen, GMA, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'', and ''The Late Late Show with James Corden.'' She has been critically acclaimed for her "powerhouse vocals" and charismatic on-stage presence. Early life Scaggs was born on October 8, 1979, in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a DJ and Scaggs was exposed to his vinyl collection at a young age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James King (musician)
James King is an American multi-instrumentalist who is a co-founder for soul band Fitz and the Tantrums. In 2008, he was approached by college friend Michael Fitzpatrick to play saxophone on a few songs that he had written which turned out to be the beginnings of Fitz and the Tantrums. King recommended Noelle Scaggs and other musicians. They performed for the first time a week later at Hollywood's Hotel Café. They released their debut EP ''Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1'' in August 2009, and the tracks soon received airplay on public radio station KCRW in Los Angeles. Six months after their first performance they had slots at Lollapalooza and Telluride Blues & Brews. In late 2009 they toured with Hepcat, Flogging Molly, and opened eight concerts for Maroon 5. The band signed to Dangerbird Records in April 2010, Their first full-length album, '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'' was released on August 24, 2010. It received critical acclaim and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Azucena
Maya Azucena is an American singer-songwriter and cultural ambassador from Brooklyn, New York City. She attended the LaGuardia School of Performing Arts. She independently released her debut album ''Maya Who?!'' at performance shows and on her website. Musical career Solo work *Maya's first release was her 2003 album ''Maya Who?!''. The album was independently released and was followed by American and European tours. CD BABY said of the album, "Deep and soul-bearing, she sings like she's been everywhere and seen it all. This soul/R&B/hip hop album is a fantastic launching point for a young woman with a bright and long career ahead of her." The album featured guest artist Neal Evans of Soulive. ''Maya Who?!'' reached number 15 on CMJ's 2003 New Music Report. *Her 2007 single, "Make It Happen," combined various styles into a track that peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's Hot Club Dance Chart. The track was released on a CD by Kult Records that featured several remixes. *Maya's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
