About Guest

AJ Michalka is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter, who has appeared in films such as The Lovely Bones, Super 8, and Secretariat, the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs and it’s spin-off Schooled, and even going behind the microphone as Stevonnie in Steven Universe, and Catra in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

AJ and her sister Aly formed the musical duo Aly & AJ in 2004, releasing five studio albums and performing ten tours over the last two decades, alongside appearances at Lollapalooza and the Austin City Limits Festival. In the wake of the runaway TikTok revival of their 2007 hit, “Potential Breakup Song,” Aly & AJ transformed their foundation of Disney pop and TV sitcoms into a new vision of sparkling guitars, close harmonies, and highway sprawl, growing on their own terms.

Their latest album With Love From released in 2023, and marks the first time Aly & AJ have been credited as co-producers, though they’ve contributed to the exacting decisions that direct their sound since their childhoods on Hollywood Records. Despite their considerable artistic growth, though, Aly & AJ still feel like their younger selves in many ways: excited about being in the studio, ambitious, dreaming together. Tracking the album in one week in December 2021, Aly & AJ reconvened with many of the same collaborators (Jorge Elbrecht, Yves Rothman, Ryan Spraker, James McAlister) that helped make their previous record such a breakthrough. If a touch of the beat conjured the relief of catching a wind on the highway, With Love From breathes it in deeply.