Aly & AJ on Wearing Same Jeans Over and Over, Performing for Friends and Looking Ahead After With Love From Tour

Aly and AJ Michalka, better known by their band name Aly & AJ, are no strangers to touring. The sister singer duo have been performing for audiences since they were young teens opening up for The Cheetah Girls. This September, the pair embarked on the last leg of their biggest tour yet, With Love From, complete with an epic show at the Greek Theatre in their hometown of Los Angeles. It was a grounding moment for them, highlighting how much they’ve grown but how far they still want to go.

“The Greek show was just absolutely magical,” AJ tells Teen Vogue on a phone call a few days after the show. The sisters are chatting from their tour bus two hours before their final performance of the season. “We had a lot more family and friends in the audience, and of course people representing Los Angeles, and that was a big deal for Aly and I.”

As its name suggests, this tour focused on their fifth studio album, also titled With Love From, which mixes their pop music roots with the more soulful folk sound they’ve gravitated towards in more recent years. The title track — which, you guessed it, is also titled “With Love From” — is a gritty recognition of personal faults signed off with love from – in the case of the song – Missouri (which is perhaps a double entendre as it is sung to sound like “misery.”) The theme, though, fits well with an 18-city tour that ended with literal love from their hometown.