When drummer Ezra Lipp calls ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) a “California rock ’n’ roll establishment,” he’s not boasting. He’s merely stating a reality. The band has been evolving organically in all the precise instructions occurring three many years, cultivating an enthusiastic, open-minded fanbase one present at a time at venues and festivals everywhere in the world.
Native Californians Zach Gill (keys), Steve Adams (bass) and Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar) have been enjoying collectively in some form or type since junior highschool, holding it going by way of faculty at UC Santa Barbara. A comparatively new addition, Lipp has been with the band for about seven years. All 4 members sing, and every has moonlighted with varied luminaries and contemporaries, together with Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Nicki Bluhm and Jack Johnson.
“Hey Hey (Story Of The Twist & Shout)” is the newest single from ALO’s new LP, Frames, out tomorrow by way of Jack Johnson’s Brushfire label. A rousing name to communion, it confirms the band’s enduring reference to its viewers.
“It’s a greeting,” says Gill. “It’s a late-night campfire dialog underneath the celebs. It’s an old-timey hoedown in an area disco. It was impressed by our 2024 summer season tour of Colorado mountain cities and all of the colourful characters who got here out to bop and sing with us underneath the celebs.”
We’re proud to premiere ALO’s “Hey Hey (Story Of The Twist & Shout).”
—Hobart Rowland
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