{"id":5005,"date":"2019-05-10T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2019-05-10T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:30:05","slug":"aly-aj-michalka-for-schon-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/aly-aj-michalka-for-schon-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Aly & AJ Michalka for Schon Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got a few photos from the new photoshoot of Aly & AJ Michalka<\/strong> for the magazine Sch\u00f6n Magazine<\/strong>. Amanda<\/strong> and Alyson<\/strong> look just incredible. We have added 8 HQ original photos<\/em> and 10 LQ photos<\/em>, on which I cut white areas, to the gallery. And you can also check out the interview of Amanda<\/strong> for Sch\u00f6n Magazine<\/strong> by clicking here<\/a>.
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\u2022<\/strong> [x018<\/em>] Photoshoots > #131 \u2013 Aly & AJ Michalka for Schon Magazine<\/a>
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\nSM<\/strong>: What can you tell us about your EP, Sanctuary? You\u2019ve been working on it for quite some time now, how\u2019s the process been?<\/em>
\nBoth<\/strong>: Honestly, it\u2019s been equal parts stressful and rewarding. We really stretched ourselves emotionally and financially on this one but the songs have proved worth it to fight for. It was incredibly challenging trying to balance our television schedules, with one of us having to fly in from Canada for sessions \u2014 and the other filming five days a week on another show \u2014 while writing and recording this EP. We mixed our last song for the record on April 22, so every day has been a deadline of one sort or another. We\u2019ve had our hands and ideas behind every single part of the release from the songwriting, recording, and mixing\/mastering to the art direction, music videos, merch, tour design, set\/lighting design. There\u2019s no part of the release we didn\u2019t work on. We\u2019re ready for it to be out in the world and for us to perform these songs in a live setting because we have such pride in how hard we\u2019ve worked to provide something worthy of the incredible fans we have listening to our music.<\/em>
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\nSM<\/strong>: It\u2019s no secret you are sitting on a bunch of unreleased songs \u2014 like \u201cTen Years\u201d \u2014 do you ever see yourselves putting those out?<\/em>
\nBoth<\/strong>: I know fans want all the unreleased songs but I promise you there\u2019s a reason those songs sometimes never see the light of day. We have quite a few and their DNA is inside of the songs that are in the world. There will definitely be songs we one day end up releasing but we need to fit it with the right collection of songs. Sometimes it\u2019s appropriate for that body of work and sometimes it\u2019s not. We also try to be cognizant of the financial investment that taking a song across the finish line involves. We like to feel certain it\u2019s the right time.<\/em>
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\nSM<\/strong>: This new music signals an even more seasoned, and somehow sombre, era for you guys \u2014 sonically and lyrically. How did you come to hone this new sound?<\/em>
\nBoth<\/strong>: We obviously hoped to challenge ourselves to grow beyond Ten Years but there\u2019s truly no formula to accomplishing that so we just went with our gut instincts. We tend to write sombre but hopeful songs. Or songs with a dark side lurking around the corner. We asked ourselves what themes we wanted to touch on along with imaging and video concepts that would bring a whole new level of artistry to our work. We always want and hope for new fans to discover our music, and if \u201cChurch\u201d can be that introduction for them then we\u2019re thrilled.<\/em>
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\nSM<\/strong>: You mentioned in the past you wanted to release a full album. Is that still the plan? Or are you playing it by ear and releasing stuff when it feels right?<\/em>
\nAJ<\/strong>: Aly and I have the ambition to put out full records. It requires time and a significant financial investment. We develop a timeline and release strategy well in advance of release and those timelines inevitably shift because we\u2019re juggling two careers. It would be illuminating for many of our fans to see how hard we work just to put out one song and perhaps there\u2019s a way to tell that story someday. It\u2019s that way for every band. We have a lot of respect for anyone who puts out music independently and tries to build an audience for it. We considered putting out ten songs but couldn\u2019t find the time to complete everything before going on tour due to our shooting schedules. We just managed to record and produce the five songs on Sanctuary, especially given that Aly was shooting in Vancouver and would fly back to L.A. on days off to write or work in the studio and I rarely had days off.<\/em>
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\nSM<\/strong>: Do you see yourselves as fitting into a particular genre?<\/em>
\nBoth<\/strong>: Not necessarily. We\u2019ve always had a hard time trying to describe our sound to people. We\u2019d almost rather have someone else describe it to us. I think our music is very much in the synth-pop world, but it\u2019s not straight up pop and never was. We write by our instincts and this is how that sounds.<\/em>
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We got a few photos from the new photoshoot of Aly & AJ Michalka<\/strong> for the magazine Sch\u00f6n Magazine<\/strong>. Amanda<\/strong> and Alyson<\/strong> look just incredible. We have added 8 HQ original photos<\/em> and 10 LQ photos<\/em>, on which I cut white areas, to the gallery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,8,15],"tags":[24,22,23],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aj","category-alyaj","category-aly","category-interview","category-photoshoot","tag-aj-michalka","tag-aly-and-aj","tag-aly-michalka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Schon_Magazine_Aly_And_AJ8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}