The Mavericks hit the stage of Conan recently to perform their new song "Summertime (When I'm With You)."

The band brought summer-festival-worthy energy to the stage. The up-tempo performance is just what fans have come to expect from the Mavericks, and guitarist Eddie Perez says that getting people out of their seats to dance is at the heart of who they are as a band.

"If you define this band as a country band, then that's a whole different thing, especially when it comes to radio," he tells Rolling Stone Country. "But if you define this band as a pop-dance band, which most of our fans do, that's the common theme. When people who come to our shows can't do their thing, which is get up out of their chairs and dance, it becomes an issue."

"Summertime (When I'm With You)" comes off of the band's recent album, Mono, which was released earlier this year. The project is full of energy and difficult to place squarely into the country genre, but Raul Malo says that being genre-less is kind of the point.

"If you ask 10 different people what the Mavericks mean to them, you're going to get 10 different answers. And then you're going to hear our records and hear one song, and you're going to think this band is like this. Then you're going to hear the next song and go, 'Holy s--t, this band is nothing like that song that I just heard,'" he says. "To us, it's not a big deal, but in the real world, where everybody else lives, where there are boundaries and genres and nice little categories, we have a hard time fitting in. And that's okay — it's always been like that."

Mono is available for download on iTunes and Amazon. A list of the Mavericks' upcoming tour dates can be found at TheMavericksBand.com.

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