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"  Photo: Blair Alley for Express Don&amp;#039;t expect to be stagnant while watching Fitz and The Tantrums perform. The indie-pop, neo soul group is notorious for their onstage dance parties\u2014with frontman and keyboardist Michael Fitzpatrick moonwalking across the stage and vocalist Noelle Scaggs shimmying along with her tambourine. The rest of the high-energy band is comprised of James King on the horns, Joseph Karnes doing bass guitar, Jeremy Ruzumna playing keyboards, and John Wicks drumming away. Before the band jets off to tour with Dave Matthews Band and Bruno Mars, we caught up with Fitzpatrick and Scaggs backstage after their set at the Express Rocks! SXSW Showcase. And be sure to pick up their new album, More than Just a Dream, which drops in May. On their epic dance moves: &amp;quot;I just do awkward white guy dances\u2026We developed a bunch of organic dance moves over the last couple of years. We both like to move a lot, and I&amp;#039;m just trying to keep up with the music. For these new couple of songs we brought in a friend of [Noelle&amp;#039;s]; we wanted to come up with a couple of moves. So we got this new coordinated walk that we do together. We like to make people dance, and we will call them out if they don&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; \u2014Michael Fitzpatrick On their explosive energy onstage: &amp;quot;Today we&amp;#039;ve done three shows, so we&amp;#039;re pretty tired, but as soon as you walk out on that stage...I&amp;#039;m a zombie before, literally crawling up, and then we get on there and the lights go on and the crowd just feeds you, and then you just go. The more you give them the more they get pumped up, the more you do.&amp;quot; \u2014Fitzpatrick On their new sound and album: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s evolving. We wanted to take some chances on this record. There something on this record for our Fitz and the Tantrums fans, who have been with us since our first album, too. At the end of the day we wanted to make a record that we loved.&amp;quot; \u2014Fitzpatrick On performing with the Dave Matthews Band: &amp;quot;We love Dave. We&amp;#039;ve [performed with him] before. He&amp;#039;s a sweet, genuine guy. You know one of those people you meet and are like &amp;#039;I thank you for being kind.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; \u2014Noelle Scaggs On being discovered by Adam Levine: &amp;quot;He gave us one of our early breaks. He got us to be able to tour nationally. He was getting a tattoo in New York from his favorite tattoo artist, and the guy had just discovered us, so played our song for [Levine]. He flipped out, he came to one of our shows, and two weeks later we were on tour opening up for them on a college tour\u2026.It&amp;#039;s like he pushed [The Voice] button! I love that show. I do love that show.&amp;quot; \u2014Fitzpatrick On wearing Express clothes during their performance: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m wearing this cute little sparkly leather dress, and I heard it popped onstage.&amp;quot; \u2014Scaggs &amp;quot;We got some jackets, and shirts, and awesome shoes. I was really impressed with how high-end, fun, and hip the clothes looked. &amp;quot; \u2014Fitzpatrick On returning to SXSW: &amp;quot;[This is year] number three! It feels exciting to be back with a new record and to be sort of testing it on Austin especially because Austin is such a special place for us. It&amp;#039;s a music lover&amp;#039;s town and a great place to get a temperature on what songs are working and how people are feeling about it.&amp;quot; \u2014Fitzpatrick Keep up to date with the latest pop culture news.  Photo: Blair Alley for Express "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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