Great show! The only thing holding this one back from 5 stars, is that one girl screaming and singing with Zach through the whole show. I am glad she was having fun.

Thanx for these 2 new live shows Tyler Irie & Mike. I am going to the Gramble. They say no recording devices but I sure hope some records the late night Gramble. I don't think anyone got last years(sucks)! That was pretty F'ing good

This recording sounds amazing, even while streaming through my iPhone over 3G using the ooTunes app. This is the best ALO recording I've heard since the NYE at the Mountain House. The show was fabulous with awesome new songs (especially "Feel It"), a few well placed covers, and a vibe that was quite stellar. I hope ALO keeps this momentum up! ALO ragers "Time is of the Essence" and "Celery Stalker" contained the respective choruses of "Gotta Be Starting Something" and "Movin on up" within them. Definitely personal highlights of the show! Well done ALO!

At home in this city and on this stage as much as any other, ALO delivers stiff jabs, hard crosses, smooth uppercuts and several knockouts in night two of their recent weekend at Soho. Steve Adams, Dave Brogan, Zach Gill and Dan Lebowitz have certainly taken the long way "home" to Santa Barbara, but in their return they rose once again to new atmospheric heights. Each is so prevalent and pertinent in these songs, watching them perform them live with such ease and comfort I am almost surprised at how effortFUL these live recordings sound. Many classic songs, old rarities, recently-debuted newbies, a couple covers and some "first-timers." Typical ALO in many ways, but there's something more magical at work here with these four BFFs, and thankfully it can be heard right here in this recording.

The 1st setters that hit me hardest are "Family," "Try" with that funky MMJ rap, "Busy Killing Time," "Shine" and even the well-worn "They Love Each Other," spirited from the great beyond somehow, and beautifully expressed. Theme songs can be cheesefests, but on this night "Animal Liberation" ascended into the upper echelon of jamming theme songs as a perfect first-set closer.

Set 2... Good night and good luck folks! "E_Girl" opener, slammed it home right of the bat. To completely reinvent a tune played at so many shows due to its overbearing popularity and singalongability, it was not only fun to see and hear, it was pretty transformational for ALO, in my eyes. They popped "Girl" into the Flux Capacitor and brought out a new, true, timely essence.

More bests of set for me were Brogan and Lebo's welcome newbies, "The Past" and "Feel It" respectively, and Zach's fresh gem "I Love Music." Great work in that one. Some songs you never like and even hearing your favorite band cover them won't help, and that's "Take the Long Way Home" for me. Enough said. A slightly re-worked "BBQ" brought the temperature up and the room was then roasted by arguably the hottest, dirtiest, most percolating encore ALO has ever put together. Words won't help, it must be heard.

For me, listening to the segues and jams ALO laced between several of their songs here is to hear what ALO have become as a live band. As good as any of their kind, that's for sure, opinions being what they are, and this is mine. Check "The Gardener" into "Reality Police" and "I Love Music" into "Time." It's right there. These guys, these free rangers of the soundscape, they are RIGHT THERE... RIGHT HERE. ALO are the goods.

Enjoy a listen or twelve... fine work by the recording team too!