Fitz and The Tantrums with Now More Than Ever - SOLD OUT!

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Multi-platinum artists Fitz and The Tantrums have energized popular music and culture with a series of unshakable, undeniable, and ubiquitous anthems and albums. Since 2008, the Los Angeles collective have magnified the scope of pop with a dash of indie, a dose of soul, and a whole lot of dancefloor-ready bounce. Their catalog spans fan favorite records such as Pickin’ up the Pieces [2010], More Than Just A Dream [2013], the gold-certified Fitz and The Tantrums [2016], and All the Feels [2019]. Along the way, they’ve impressively tallied just shy of 4 billion streams and counting powered by enduring hits such as the triple-platinum “HandClap,” platinum “Out of My League” and “The Walker,” and gold “Moneygrabber.” As an inescapable presence, their music has notably coursed through the mainstream conversation, soundtracking films on NETFLIX and campaigns for CVS Wellness, Sunchips, Sofi, Xfinity, Walmart, Norwegian Cruise Line, Lays, and Wells Fargo, to name a few. Beyond standout performances everywhere from Coachella and Bonaroo to numerous late-night television shows, they’ve consistently sold out some of the most iconic venues in the world, including The Forum and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Not to mention, they’ve incited the applause from Rolling Stone, Billboard, People, and more. Fitz and The Tantrums once again leap forward with their bold, bright, and buoyant 2022 single “Sway,” a massive co-headline tour with Andy Grammer, and more surprises to come.

Fitz and The Tantrums are:  Michael “Fitz” Fitzpatrick (vocals), Noelle Scaggs (vocals), James King (saxophone, flute), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards), and Joseph Karnes (bass)

Now More Than Ever - Support

After spending the past 20 years in the studio, on concert stages all over the world and at the
literal top of the charts, All-American Rejects co-founder Tyson Ritter didn’t start Now More
Than Ever in 2018 with the expectation it would turn into a real band – but a real band is very
much what it has become. In tandem with veteran musicians/songwriters/producers Scott
Chesak and Izzy Fontaine, Ritter has begun a meaningful and exciting new chapter in his music
career with Now More Than Ever’s debut album Creatrix, which will be released March 17,
2023, by Thirty Tigers.
To hear Ritter tell it, All-American Rejects’ relationship with the traditional music industry was in
many ways the reason he was eager to try something different: simply making music with
friends for fun, without any preconceived notions about what would, could or should happen
next. In other words, no constraints, no A&Rs, no deadlines and no mandate to sound like
anyone or anything other than themselves.
The fact that Ritter and Chesak have known each other for so long certainly helped jumpstart
things, as the latter has been a multi-instrumentalist touring member of All-American Rejects
since 2011. Chesak later segued into writing and producing for artists such as Weezer and
Panic! At The Disco, a skill Ritter has long admired but had difficulty incorporating into his own
creative process. As he began thinking about new music, he “definitely knew” he “didn’t want to
write in the traditional sense with and for another artist in a studio. Scotty and I just got to talking
and decided to write some tunes. It started that innocently.”
“We didn’t have a name, or an idea of being a band, until probably a year after that,” Chesak
adds. “We were kind of just writing for the purity of writing and trying to make something cool.
There’s a huge folder of songs we made during that time that aren’t part of this project, but three
or four of them showed us there was something cohesive there.”
Having spent decades in the same musical scene, Ritter and Chesak were committed to a fresh
approach when it came to the sound of their new work. “We were kind of sick of guitar music,
because we both come from the rock world,” says Chesak, who handled bass, drums and
keyboard duties during the sessions. “So at first we made a rule: Fuck guitars. No guitars!”
Quickly they realized their beef wasn’t with guitars per se, but rather the same old sound of the
instrument. Enter Izzy Fontaine, who has worked closely behind the scenes with everyone from
Taking Back Sunday and Glassjaw to Seal and Banks, and came up in the industry alongside
many of the same bands as Ritter and Chesak.
“We asked Izzy if he’d mind throwing some guitar on a track, and we wound up writing the song
‘Heels Up Head Over’ together,” Ritter recalls. “That was a ‘wow’ moment, and it turned into the
voice of this record.” Says Fontaine, “That was the song that started the band.”
Now More Than Ever shimmers with that spirit of freedom, its nine tracks gracefully surfing the
peaks of the past four decades of pop and rock. These are the kinds of songs that used to be on
the radio and certainly still should be today – the ones that make you dance, shake your ass
and forget about everything else for a while. The breathless electro-rock of “D-E-A-D Together”

and the sultry power ballad “Heart To Heart” best embody that vibe, while horn players from
Ozomatli add an instant dance party to “Candle.” The ‘80s synth-driven closer “Never You”
started life as a Ritter acoustic song but was quickly transformed by Chesak and Fontaine into
what’s now the perfect soundtrack for a vintage slow dance prom scene.
“Whenever I’d start to get freaky on guitar, they’d be like, ooh, I like this sound. I’d be like,
really? It doesn’t sound like a guitar!,” Fontaine says. “I felt really free to just do my thing, which
is a rare situation. When that became the energy and focus, we thought, all these songs can
have a message, so let’s put them together. I got my paws on everything and we continued to
make a smoothie from there.”
When it came time to write lyrics, Ritter found himself consolidating 20 years of life on the road
and loves both lost and found into “a giant goulash of experience. It’s quite all over the place,
but there’s a relationship thread throughout. I think I was airing a lot of toxins from some of
those relationships, but once Izzy joined, that shifted my writing. I began thinking more about
stories.”
To that end, “Heels Up Head Over” explores those themes with a tale about a werewolf and
vampire getting married, while lyrical references to the ageless cool of Joan Jett and drunk,
young romance make you feel right at home in Now More Than Ever’s company. “This is a
record where there was freedom in lyric,” Ritter says. “When you’re on a major label for 15
years, you can succumb to trying to follow your last thing. That can seep into the music in a way
that’s so unconscious. The joy of this band is that it’s completely free of any oppressive
overlords, ivory towers, approval processes or co-writes that have been manufactured, licked,
stamped and thrown onto the assembly line.”
Now More Than Ever is here to help make sure the pillars of pop and rock will never fall, and
they’re prepared to go down believing. “This is our little monolith,” Ritter says. “It might be six
feet tall amongst giants, but it’s pure. And it’s truth for us. It’s saccharine as fuck, and I love it.”