Tantrum State: Music To Rock Out With Your Cock Out

Motown and Soul music has made a strong comeback with Blue-Eyed Soul singers like Adele, Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Jamie Lidell. The U.K. has definitely monopolized the genre with some phenomenal talents, until now. Fitz and The Tantrums are a Los Angeles-based Soul group that has managed to join the ranks of Mayer Hawthorne and Cee Lo Green in the American Neo-Soul scene.

Their first full length album Pickin’ Up the Pieces was released in August and channels the musical elements of Motown greats like Marvin Gaye with tinges of Crosby, Stills and Nash. The group recorded their first EP Songs for a Break Up, Vol. 1 in lead vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick’s living room and still managed to create a great classic sound. Fitzpatrick used the same method for the full length album with much success.

If you are into the soul classics and the Neo-Soul movement, check out Fitz and the Tantrums’s single Money Grabber (above). It’s bound to get your toes tapping.