Aloud, along with Samantha Farrell and Benjamin Cartel, performs at ONCE Ballroom this Saturday. left to right: Charles Murphy, Chris Jago, Henry Beguiristain, and Jen de la Osa. — Photo by Jennifer Esteban

By Blake Maddux

Musicians Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain, who first “got together over a shared love of The Beatles and Oasis,” moved to Boston from their hometown of Miami in 2001.

According to de la Osa, “There wasn’t a lot going on in Miami at the time regarding rock and roll bands and venues.”

The couple’s 16 years in the Boston area – during which time they lived in the Fenway, Allston, Quincy, Jamaica Plain, Malden, and the South End – were productive and eventful ones. Not only did they record four full-length albums after dubbing themselves Aloud in 2001, they also married each other in 2010.

As much as they both loved Boston, the limitations of the city’s music scene and its mercilessly harsh winters prompted them to pack up and head westward to Los Angeles.

They now live, Beguiristain says, “right by the Hollywood sign.”

2018 is already set to be another in long line of fruitful trips around the sun. On Valentine’s Day, Aloud released a single called Falling Out of Love and its B-side, Empty House, which were recorded at Q Division Studios in Somerville. They unveiled their version of The Rolling Stones’ Dead Flowers on April 20. Two of the band’s songs are featured in a new film called

All These Small Moments, which stars Molly Ringwald and premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. Finally, the follow-up to their 2014 LP, It’s Got To Be Now, is, as they say, “in the can.”

Beguiristain and de la Osa spoke by phone to The Somerville Times from New York, where the tour that stops at ONCE on Saturday had just begun.

The Somerville Times: What professional and personal considerations led you to leave Boston?

Henry Beguiristain: In Boston, [we] kind of started to feel boxed in. It’s one of those things that, like, bums me out, because that place is like my home. But you could only play so many shows at the fewer and fewer venues that are around.

Jen de la Osa: We knew that we couldn’t get past wherever we were there, so we had to try something else. That’s the band aspect of it. The other part is that the city was kind of wearing on us. We kept getting pushed out further and further because the rent just kept going up. Then the winters, like in the last four years, really started to grate on us in a way that it never had before. We were like, “Does it need to be this hard all the time? Can’t it be easier?” (laughs)

Beguiristain: It’s a shame, too, because so many of my favorite bands and my friends are making amazing music in Boston, so I do miss being able to just pop down and catch OldJack or The Rationales or whoever.

TST: Why did you choose Los Angeles?

de la Osa: Number one, when we’d gone on our national tours and got out there, we really loved it and we thought, if we had to move somewhere else, we could live here. And then, beyond that, we had a bunch of friends that had already come out here, so we had a support system. Our publisher is out in LA. Some of the professional stuff that we do with the band is out there already. It really has been great. It’s been doing us a lot of good.

Beguiristain: Funny enough, I feel like I run into someone from Boston like at least twice a day. It’s uncanny. There was one morning when someone’s walking past me and they’re wearing a Red Sox hat, a Red Sox jacket, a Red Sox T-shirt, and a Red Sox fanny pack.

TST: How did Somerville figure into the time that you spent in the Boston area?

Beguiristain: We spent a lot of time in Somerville. We recorded an album, Exile. Our producer for that album, Dan [Daskivich], lived like right across the street from the Market Basket in Union. So we practically lived there. That album took like a full year.

de la Osa: The thing that sticks out most in terms of the band and Somerville has definitely got to be making Exile, our third record. That was awesome, because we went down there – we kind of took our time with it – every weekend and just got into Dan’s apartment, right next to Market Basket, and would just do 10-hour, 12-hour days recording.

TST: Which Aloud songs are featured in the new film All These Small Moments?

de la Osa: One of them is Jeanne, It’s Just a Ride!, off our last record, It’s Got to Be Now. The other song – which is, like, the end credits song – is Loving U’s a Beautiful Thing, and that’s off our new record that isn’t out yet.

TST: How did the songs end up being included in the film?

Beguiristain: Magic!

de la Osa: We’re lucky enough that our manager kind of knew the director [and] was working with the director on the film. She’d heard Jeanne and the lyrics just kind of sat with this particular scene in the movie. She kind of fell in love with the song and was like, “I gotta have it in there.” It’s a bit like a montage scene, like a passage-of-time scene. It’s right in the middle of the film. And then [our manager] mentioned that there’s a whole new record coming out and to have a listen if you’d like. When [the director] heard Loving U’s a Beautiful Thing, it just kind of occurred to her like, “that’s how we should end the film.”

TST: What is the status of that new record that you mentioned?

de la Osa: It’s done, it’s in the can, it’s mastered. We are in the middle of shopping it around to see what happens, and then we’ll eventually make some decisions based on that. And hopefully it will be out … well, you can never really say. Soon is all I hope! We’re just trying to figure out how best to release it.

Beguiristain: I’m really, really excited about it. It was like the last thing we did before leaving Boston and I feel like it’s a really good summation of everything we learned there. We did it at Mad Oak [Studios, in Allston] with Benny Grotto. I feel like so much of our personal and band history is just so tied to that city that it felt fulfilling to sort of end our time there with this.

Aloud with Samantha Farrell and Benjamin Cartel. Saturday, April 28. ONCE Ballroom, 156 Highland Ave. Doors at 8, show at 9. $10 in advance, $13 on day of show.