Today, California rock band ALO announces the 18th iteration of their annual Tour d’Amour. The jam-pop four-piece returns to the West Coast, hitting some of their favorite venues. The tour kicks off in Southern California, moves on to Central California, and includes a centerpiece visit to the regularly sold-out Fillmore in San Francisco. The tour wraps up with a Pacific Northwest run through Portland and a two-night stop in Seattle. Glitterfox will support all California shows, with support for the Pacific Northwest to be announced later.
The band had a busy 2024, writing and recording new music, touring extensively in Colorado, and playing festivals nationwide. 2025 promises to be another packed year for ALO, with more stops around the country to be announced soon.
Previous iterations of Tour d'Amour have received rave reviews from long-time tastemakers like JamBase, Glide Magazine, the Santa Barbara Independent, and more. Of the band's Santa Barbara, CA show in March 2023, the Santa Barbara Independent wrote, "ALO can still deliver the fun, especially for a nostalgic crowd whose connections to the band are longstanding and deep-rooted… They hit SOhO with a vengeance." The publication concluded, "The entire show was well worth staying up late for.” Glide Magazine praised the March 25th show at the historic Fillmore in San Francisco, stating, "ALO took the stage with their signature positivity, and the first song of the set, 'Make It Back Home,' hit the spot just right. Everything was on point, tight, and practiced as ever."
Each year, Tour d’Amour celebrates love, but it also celebrates an ongoing journey that began in Saratoga, CA, in the late ’80s when Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar/vocals), Zach Gill (keyboards/vocals), and Steve Adams (bass/vocals) met in middle school. Drummer/vocalist Ezra Lipp—a fixture in the Northern California creative scene, where he cut his teeth with the likes of Phil Lesh, Sean Hayes, and countless others—joined several years ago.
Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, November 15, but artist and local pre-sales start tomorrow, November 13. For the first time, the band is offering a special VIP experience, where fans can meet the band, receive exclusive merch like a limited edition foil variant tour poster, and gain early access to the venue. Links to standard and VIP tickets are available at alomusic.com/#tour.
ALO
Tour D’Amour XVIII
Winter 2025
Jan 30 - Venice, CA - The Venice West *
Jan 31 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern *
Feb 1 - Santa Barbara, CA - SOhO *
Feb 6 - Chico, CA - The Big Room *
Feb 7 - Grass Valley, CA - Center for the Arts *
Feb 8 - Crystal Bay, NV - Crystal Bay Club/Crown Room *
Feb 22 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
Feb 27 - Portland, OR - The Get Down #
Feb 28 - Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge #
Mar 1 - Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge #
w/ special guest Glitterfox
Support TBA
ALO Bio
ALO stands for Animal Liberation Orchestra—because music liberates the inner animal, of course. As liberated as they come, Zach Gill, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, and Steve Adams have certainly been at this a long time. The trio met as pre-teens in Saratoga, California, quickly connecting over their love of music and sound.
In junior high, they got the idea to form a band for their eighth-grade talent show. Zach recounts the emerging artist's struggle: “It’s hard to get all the pieces right, you know, you’re chasing a dream and an abstract vision, and you’re going through puberty. It’s kind of a lot.” Lebo elaborates, “We met at a time in our lives when we were coming of age and craving identity. Music, and more specifically, our band, gave us a vessel with which we could ‘set sail’ on the ocean of life.”
And the rest is history—albeit a history with a crooked path. You end up where you belong, but the journey is never quite what you expected when you took the first step. Twenty-five years in, Gill (keyboards/vocals), Lebo (guitar/vocals), Adams (bass/vocals), and “new guy” Ezra Lipp (drums/vocals)—a Bay Area drum legend in training—have recorded their greatest work to date. This is what happens when a band doesn’t break up: the culmination of a lifetime of shared effort and camaraderie. Four master collaborators at the peak of their craft individually and collectively, with near-telepathic cohesion.
These musicians have played with everyone—from legends like Phil Lesh and members of the Grateful Dead to SoCal surf troubadour Jack Johnson. If the show happened in California, you’d almost always find one of them in the corner of the shot and, sometimes, in the center.
But you don’t truly hear it all until you hear them together. Their sound invites repeat listening, a rich stew that fully reveals itself with time, attention, a few tears, and a lot of love.
ALO calls their music “jam-pop,” a fitting description for meticulously crafted, hooky, and accessible compositions laced with improvisational departures. They function as a single organism, a voice, and consciousness, always exploring but never wandering. Each song exudes intention, momentum, patience, and confidence—a quality only wrought from a quarter-century of collaboration and water under the bridge.
The band’s new full-length album, Silver Saturdays, is a celebration of that crooked path, of having lived through a turbulent phase of human history, and of the winding road still to come. Won’t you join us for the ride?
(Rick Florino & Joshua Zucker)
Glitterfox Bio
Portland-based band Glitterfox has released seven singles under the record label Kill Rock Stars (Elliot Smith, The Decemberists). The band has grown steadily since “Drive” came out in August 2023, balancing Southern songwriting shine and nostalgia-fueled anthems in their indie rock style.
The four-piece band's songwriters and front persons, married couple Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker, channel personal struggles and experiences as queer, neurodiverse individuals into their songwriting.
They will release a new full-length album in the spring of 2025.
