{"id":5108,"date":"2014-01-10T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2014-01-10T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:30:40","slug":"concert-review-fitz-and-the-tantrums-asheville-nc-5-nov-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/10\/concert-review-fitz-and-the-tantrums-asheville-nc-5-nov-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Review &#038; Photoblog: Fitz and the Tantrums, Asheville NC, 5 Nov. 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern r&amp;b-flavored pop act <strong>Fitz and the Tantrums<\/strong> returned to Asheville recently for an enthusiastic, packed-house reception. Focusing on tunes from their second album (2013&#8217;s <em>More than Just a Dream<\/em>) and peppering the set with cuts from their breakout 2010 debut <em>Pickin&#8217; Up the Pieces<\/em>, the group wowed the audience. A high-energy show from start to finish, the performance slipped in a few crooner\/ballad type numbers, but even on those, the group kept the audience on its feet.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/fitz2013\/fitz0101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"285\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center>The tunes on <em>More Than Just a Dream<\/em> have a bit more slick studio polish and radio-ready sheen than the debut, but onstage, the songs all flowed together nicely in a solid mix. Lead vocal duo <strong>Michael Fitzpatrick<\/strong> and <strong>Noelle Scaggs<\/strong> shared the spotlight, alternately drawing attention to themselves as individual singers and as a tightly-knit team.<\/p>\n<p>With the success of the slicker approach on the second album, it remains to be seen what direction the band&#8217;s studio releases will follow, but onstage, they&#8217;re as exciting and soulful \u2013in the classic sense \u2013 as ever. Below are a couple dozen photo highlights from the November 5 show at Asheville NC&#8217;s Orange Peel.<\/p>\n<p>All photos \u00a9 Bill Kopp.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/fitz2013.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern r&amp;b-flavored pop act Fitz and the Tantrums returned to Asheville recently for an enthusiastic, packed-house reception. Focusing on tunes from their second album (2013&#8217;s More than Just a Dream) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,49,60,65,69],"tags":[237,832,2173],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-new-release","category-rb","category-review","category-soul","tag-asheville","tag-fitz-and-the-tantrums","tag-the-orange-peel","cat-44-id","cat-49-id","cat-60-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}