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 appropriate instructions occurring three many years, cultivating an enthusiastic, open-minded fanbase one present at a time at venues and festivals all around the world.
Native Californians Zach Gill (keys), Steve Adams (bass) and Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar) have been enjoying collectively in some form or kind since junior highschool, conserving it going via school 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 celebrities. It’s an old-timey hoedown in an area disco. It was impressed by our 2024 summer time tour of Colorado mountain cities and all of the colourful characters who got here out to bounce and sing with us underneath the celebrities.”
We’re proud to premiere ALO’s “Hey Hey (Story Of The Twist & Shout).”
—Hobart Rowland
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