Following a period of inactivity, the duo reverted to their original name and released the extended plays Ten Years (2017) and Sanctuary (2019) and the studio albums A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun (2021), and With Love From (2023).
It debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in March 2006.
It was featured in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cow Belles which starred Aly & AJ.
The "Aly & AJ Concert" took place on July 24, 2005, at the Henry Fonda theater in Hollywood, California.
[5] On September 26, 2006, the sisters released their second studio album, Acoustic Hearts of Winter, which is composed of contemporary recordings of traditional Christmas music.
The album peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200, selling over 39,000 copies in its first week and becoming Aly & AJ's highest debut to date.
In October 2007, both the single and the album were released in the United Kingdom; "Potential Breakup Song" reached a peak position of No.
Aly & AJ toured for a short while in the UK, opening for McFly twice and performing at several television shows and nightclubs.
[11] In early January 2008, Aly & AJ performed a cover of KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Yahoo's Pepsi Smash video site.
That year, Aly & AJ covered the Grand Funk Railroad song "We're an American Band" for Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol.
[13] In early 2008, Aly & AJ were working on a fourth studio album under Hollywood Records which was due to be released in late 2009.
In December 2008, the duo wrote a song (later confirmed to be titled "The Next Worst Thing") with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.
They continued to work on their fourth Hollywood Records album, which was later completed, but its release was delayed numerous times.
[16] The duo performed live for the first time in five years with a concert at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles on June 26.
[20] The full Hothouse EP was leaked in its entirety in 2014; the duo released it on vinyl as Sanctuary: Vol.
[citation needed] In December 2015, the sisters changed their band name back to Aly & AJ.
[32] In December 2020, songs from both Ten Years and Sanctuary, as well as the non-album singles, were later released onto a compilation album titled We Don't Stop.
[45] In January 2025, the duo announced that "What It Feels Like" would act as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Silver Deliverer.
The duo also partnered with The Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to youth suicide prevention in the LGBTQ+ community.
They also partnered with Project HEAL, a charity dedicated to increasing access to treatment for eating disorders.
[49] In April 2019, in an op-ed published in Paper magazine, the sisters revealed their struggles with depression and anxiety to raise awareness and remove stigma around mental health medication.
[51] In May 2020, they released a music video for their single "Joan of Arc on the Dance Floor", directed by Aly and her husband, Stephen Ringer, that featured clips of Republican members of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary who were responsible for the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh after sexual assault allegations against him.
[53] In June 2020, the duo hosted an all-night fundraising live stream, "Up All Night with Aly & AJ", which included a full live concert, acoustic performances, reactions to their earlier work and conversations with friends and collaborators, promoting donations to charities via Propeller.la.
The stream raised US$30,000 for 13 charities, featuring one every hour: Color of Change, Frontline Foods, National Independent Venue Association's Save our Stages, Project HEAL, Women's History Museum, The Art of Elysium, The Trevor Project, Nalleli Cobo, GLAAD, Sierra Club, MusiCares, The Beauty Bus Foundation, and the Red Cross.
The sisters also starred in a Disney Channel television pilot Haversham Hall, although the show was not picked up for series.
[62] They were featured in the March 7, 2022, episode "Yippee Ki-Yay" of The Good Doctor as a fractured sister act.
In the game, the player plays as their assistant, who helps them record songs and direct a music video.
He "obtained contact information for the acting and singing duo and made threats online, by phone and handwritten notes" as stated by the police.
The duo was scheduled to perform in Cincinnati on June 27, 2008, where the man was present, after which the police could not confirm that any of the threats involved the Ohio show.