{"id":6056,"date":"2025-05-03T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/aly-michalka-plans-to-bring-son-jack-on-tour-with-sister-aj\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:10:33","slug":"aly-michalka-plans-to-bring-son-jack-on-tour-with-sister-aj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/aly-michalka-plans-to-bring-son-jack-on-tour-with-sister-aj\/","title":{"rendered":"Aly Michalka Plans to Bring Son Jack on Tour With Sister AJ"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Aly & AJ began touring together in 2005 \u2014 and 20 years later, they\u2019re bringing the next generation out on the road with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to see how touring will be with a kid,\u201d Aly Michalka<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 who welcomed her first child, son Jack, with her husband, Stephen Ringer<\/strong>, in April 2024 \u2014 reveals exclusively in the sister duo\u2019s Backstage Pass feature in the latest issue of Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>, on newsstands now. \u201cI think it\u2019ll be really fun. It\u2019ll be cool to do this and have a kid tagging along being raised by the rest of the band and the crew. I think that\u2019s really magical.\u201d<\/p>\n

AJ Michalka<\/strong><\/a>, the other half of Aly & AJ, has considered Jack part of the band for a long time now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAly found out she was pregnant with him the night we played the Greek [Theatre in L.A.],\u201d AJ, 34, told Us<\/em> of sister Aly, 36. \u201cThere\u2019s this throughline that he\u2019s been with our band for a while and being an aunt is truly the best. I always joke, it\u2019s literally the best role I\u2019ve ever booked. It\u2019s so fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She continued: \u201c[He\u2019s] brought us not only closer as sisters, but also brought us to a state of embracing this childlike wonder that maybe we lost a few years ago that we had when we first started making music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo got their start on the Disney Channel circuit in the early aughts, climbing the charts with hits featured in various TV shows and films on the network, including their own Disney Channel Original Movie, Cow Belles<\/em>. Since their 2005 debut, Into the Rush<\/em>, Aly & AJ have released six studio albums, including their latest, Silver Deliverer<\/em>, which dropped on Friday, May, 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spent the last year and a half just really in this beautiful creative space,\u201d Aly told Us<\/em>. \u201cThis album for us is really about embracing our femininity and the changes that come with getting older, especially as female artists in this industry. We\u2019ve been doing this now for 20 years, and during the making of this record, I was pregnant with my son and ended up actually giving birth the first week that we went into production.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now that the album is out in the world, the sisters are itching to play it live.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We\u2019re] excited to get these songs out on the road and play them live for people because I think they\u2019re meant to be seen in a live space,\u201d Aly said. \u201cThat\u2019s really what we wrote this album for was knowing that there was going to be a tour and that these songs would be so heavily featured in the set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep scrolling to go backstage with Aly & AJ before they hit the road \u2014 with baby Jack in tow \u2014 later this year:<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s on your rider?<\/h3>\n

AJ<\/strong>: We try to change our rider a little bit every tour. For the most part, it\u2019s kind of always the same. I kind of feel like we actually do need a whole new makeover on it for 2025. But in general, what I go to preshow is tea. For me, it\u2019s very important to drink Throat Coat. I\u2019m not a huge fan of the taste, but that is one specific thing that really helps me in terms of coating my vocals and feeling comfortable about warming up and getting on stage.<\/p>\n

Aly<\/strong>: Electrolytes, that\u2019s a big one, just so that we\u2019re keeping our energy and hydration up. You sweat everything out during the show. We now have some kid stuff that\u2019s going to be on the rider, which is funny, like, peanut butter and apples and yogurt for the little dude.<\/p>\n

AJ<\/strong>: Which is kind of stuff we already had on there.<\/p>\n

Aly<\/strong>: It is. In a way, it\u2019s not a huge shift. We always had peanut butter and apples.<\/p>\n

What is your preshow ritual?<\/h3>\n

Aly<\/strong>: We do a lot of going out and eating outside of the venue before a show. We\u2019re actually kind of known to cut it a little close to showtime where we will literally go out and have a fine dining steak experience and then we\u2019ll come back and be needed on stage in, like, 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

AJ<\/strong>: And we\u2019re high and low about it. We\u2019ve got our favorite restaurants on tour that we love to hit. Some are nice, some are just a hole in the wall and it\u2019s places that we feel really comfortable with. We know the staff, I\u2019m going to trust what I eat here, I\u2019m going to enjoy my meal. And it keeps a normalcy to a schedule that\u2019s already so bizarre by being, like, \u201cI\u2019m going to go out and hang out with people and order a nice meal and then hop on stage.\u201d It is a fun thing Aly and I have now made part of our night routine.<\/p>\n

What about right before the show?<\/h3>\n

Aly<\/strong>: We have a special sister handshake that we\u2019ve been doing, I\u2019m not even kidding, for 20 years and we have never played a show without doing it. It\u2019s probably the one superstitious thing that we do. And then we always have a little band huddle and special handshake with them and then it\u2019s showtime. Before that we\u2019ve already done our vocal warmups for 15 minutes, we\u2019ve done our soundcheck at that point \u2014 it\u2019s very efficient, but it works for us.<\/p>\n

AJ<\/strong>: [The handshake] used to be so incredibly long that over the years Aly and I have had to pare it down because we\u2019re like, \u201cThis is not sustainable every night to just do this entire handshake for five minutes.\u201d So now we have an abridged version of it. And then, for me, it\u2019s really important just to have a moment before I hit the stage to pray over the audience and the venue that we have a really great show.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favorite song to play live?<\/h3>\n

Aly<\/strong>: From the past, my favorite song to play live is maybe \u201cDon\u2019t Need Nothing.\u201d I just love that song so much, and it\u2019s kind of a mantra for our fans and for us. I really enjoy playing that song. But I think from the new set, which includes the new album, I\u2019m really loving playing \u201cPlaces to Run.\u201d That is one of my favorites. And some of the band members are also really enjoying playing that too. That song just goes off really well live.<\/p>\n

AJ<\/strong>: There\u2019s so many different chapters of our music that I could pull a song from every single era. For me, in terms of A Touch of the Beat<\/em> [Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun<\/em>], I would have to say \u201cPretty Places.\u201d From With Love From<\/em>, I would have to say \u201cBlue Dress,\u201d and then from the upcoming album, I would say the song \u201cLasso\u201d is really fun to play live.<\/p>\n

Is there a song that the crowd always freaks out over at your shows?<\/h3>\n

AJ<\/strong>: I would say that\u2019s typically \u201cPotential Breakup Song.\u201d Over the years, we\u2019ve started it in different ways, but the fans always catch on very quickly when they hear the chord progression. I love that Aly kind of starts it on her own. That\u2019s usually the moment where no matter what, we\u2019re going to get a reaction. I also feel like \u201cRush\u201d usually pulls a reaction really fast. And now some of the newer stuff, like \u201cPretty Places\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Need Nothing,\u201d you see people in the crowd chanting these choruses and they obviously feel connected to the lyrics, and they\u2019re not even songs that became massive singles.<\/p>\n

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What has been your craziest tour experience?<\/h3>\n

Aly<\/strong>: We\u2019ve been late to shows where we almost missed our show because we were caught in a blizzard. And we\u2019ve also almost missed a show because of active lightning that was coming down, which is crazy. We almost missed the Austin show this past year and then the year before, both because of crazy lightning storms.<\/p>\n

AJ<\/strong>: Two years in a row and it was both Austin.<\/p>\n

Aly<\/strong>: We got cleared for the show, but they had to strike all of our instruments that AJ and I were playing because they were going to get rained on. So the band behind us was covered and we just played the show, and it was actually one of my favorite shows we\u2019ve played. It was such a fun experience. Everybody got soaked. I mean, people were drenched. I was shocked that people even stayed and they didn\u2019t just say, \u201cPeace out, I\u2019m out of here.\u201d They were like, \u201cThis happens in Austin. It doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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