Audacy Check-In

In the world of Black Label Society, Zakk Wylde is working "smarter, not harder," as the band is ready to release their new album, 'Engines of Demolition,' on March 27. During an Audacy Check In with Abe Kanan, the always hilarious Wylde joked about the new project, saying, "It's really no big deal. People are like, 'well, Zakk, what makes it so special compared to all the other records?' I go, 'well, first off, of all the Black Label albums, this is the new one.' Second off, they're like, 'well, the songs all sound the same.' I go, 'I know, because that's all we do is just put different song titles and lyrics to these things and just put them out there.' I mean, you gotta think smarter, not harder." In all seriousness though, what little there is with Wylde, there is a song on the upcoming album called, "Ozzy Song," that looks back on his friendship playing with Ozzy Osbourne, and the feelings surrounding his funeral. "It's about the greatest that ever was and the greatest that it'll ever be," shares Zakk. Thinking the two would record again and play together again after the success of Back To The Beginning, Wylde was ready for what's next with Ozzy. Sadly though, he never got the chance. "After we went over there and laid him to rest, you know, being a pallbearer and our oldest son, who's Ozzy's godson, we were pallbearers carrying Oz to his final resting place. After that, when we got home, we did finish up the Pantera celebration run. I got home, sat in the library, looked at one of his books, and I just wrote the lyrics. I put the music on and I said it." "I just wrote the lyrics right there for Ozzy, and my wife just kept referring to it as 'Ozzy's Song.' They put on 'Ozzy Song' when we were in the truck listening to it when we'd be going somewhere. So, I just said, 'I'm just gonna name it 'Ozzy Song,' cause that's what it is.' If somebody asked me, 'Zakk, did you write that song for Ozzy?' It's like, 'yeah,' so I'll just call it 'Ozzy Song.' So there you go." To hear more about celebrating Ozzy Osbourne, his time touring in Pantera, and the new album, 'Engines of Demolition,' check out the full Audacy Check In above.

A "real and raw" new album from Bebe Rexha is incoming, but the first sample has already arrived. Last week the GRAMMY-nominated singer blast back into our world with the pulsating and vulnerable new, "I Like You Better Than Me," and now she's ready to talk about what's next. Inside the Rockstar Suite at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Rexha lets us inside the making of her album, 'Dirty Blonde,' out everywhere on June 12, telling Mike Adam how her latest chapter came together. Rexha took some risks on her fourth full length project, featuring "a little bit of the old Bebe, new Bebe," blending Country, Pop, Dance, and live guitars into something uniquely her. “That's been really fun to me, kind of genre bending a little bit," she shares. Feeling the full range of everything, Bebe explains, "like crying in the bedroom to crying on the dance floor... there's some songs like that, and then there's some songs that are like, 'I'm the s***.'" "When I started the project, I started it being more of a dance album and then I kind of hit a wall because I was like, 'I don't know if I could do 13 songs.' I have so much I want to say," she shares. "I feel like I'm just like dying to get this part of me out that feels like it's hidden by a wall, and then we were able to write songs like 'I Like You Better Than Me,' or 'Time,' which is really meaningful to me, or 'The Way I Want You,' that talk about so many different things that are really vulnerable for me." "Whether it's unrequited love or my insecurities or feeling like I wasted the best years of my life in the wrong relationships, so many different topics that speak to me, but then there's also the songs that are towards the end, I think that's when I was starting to feel myself because I had kind of work through all of that." For more on the making of 'Dirty Blonde,' navigating mental health, songwriting, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

It's time to get in the ring once again with Slash of Guns N' Roses, as the band preps for another World Tour, this time with new music, and hopes for a full project in the studio. The guitar god recently joined Abe Kanan for an Audacy Check In, where he talked about the upcoming trek, and the possibility of a new Guns N' Roses album coming together. Late last year, Guns N' Roses debuted a pair of new songs, "Nothin'" and "Atlas," right on the heels of sharing the itinerary for a World Tour. Now armed with their first new tracks since 2023, this March the band is back on the road as fans anxiously await to hears what's next. "We've already written a ton of s***, so we just have to get together and actually get into the process of going through all the material and figuring out what the songs are gonna be and recording them and all that kind of s***," shares Slash on the prospect of a new album. "That's something that's pending, is probably going to happen sooner than later, because we've gotten all this other stuff out and we've been touring for pretty much the better part of the decade." "We've been wanting to do this. It's just a matter of buckling down," he adds. "Anyway, but it's coming." Unbelievably the reunited Guns N' Roses have almost been back together as long as they were together for their first record-breaking run. "I can't believe it's been 10 years since that April Fool's gig that we did at the Troubadour. It's unbelievable to me. It went by so quick." "I really joined up with Guns in 1985 and I left in 1996, so it's one year short of as long as I've ever been in the band." What was going to be a few warm-up shows and then a set at Coachella, has turned into another decade of Rock for GN'R, still as ferocious as always with marathon sets lasting long into the night. "The way that we do it is we have just a lot of material, so we put together a set list of all the possible songs that we want to do, and then we have another setlist of songs that we'd like to do that's called the 'alternative set,' and we mix pulling from both." "We end up playing for 3+ hours just because we are enjoying playing all this material. It's not designed, we didn't set out to go, 'OK, we're going to do 3, 3.5 hour sets.' They just sort of evolved that way, and it's been happening even in the nineties, we used to do that. But it's where we feel comfortable, we want to play this, we want to play this, and we want to play that, and we just keep doing that until all of a sudden it's like, 'OK, we should do 'Paradise City' now and get the f*** out of here." Don't miss our full Audacy Check In with Slash from Guns N' Roses above.

Madison Beer fed fans earlier this month, finally unwrapping her latest album, 'locket,' and sharing dates for a world tour. Now the "bittersweet" singer joins us again for an Audacy Check In to talk about the full project now that it's out in the world, and her excitement for a booked and busy 2026. "Definitely like a sigh of relief," Beer tells Bru of her emotions now that 'locket' is out in the world. "I feel proud of it. I feel pumped that people could listen to it and I'm not just listening to it in my car alone now." "I think with this album, especially, I learned so much about myself," Madison reveals. "My writing process, my producing process, how to navigate writing about a relationship while it was still happening, then when it ended, the moments and the ebbs and flows of all the feelings that came and went with it." Being in the moment instead of looking back on it was a new perspective for Beer on 'locket,' and one that led to bold new choices and a rollercoaster of emotions. "I think that I love this album so much because you can't really replicate the emotions that you're feeling in that exact situation," she shares. "For example, there's a song called 'you're still everything' on the album that has this really heavy auto-tune, which was only because we used really heavy auto tune when we were making the demo because I was having a really hard time and felt like I couldn't really sing. So I was like, 'just throw auto-tune on it.' And then we got super attached to the way the auto-tune had sounded and kind of fell in love with this like, sad robot singing the song." "I think those things can't be replicated, and I think they happen really organically because of what's going on in your current life, or in your current frame of mind, and that's something that I think when you listen to this album, I hope people can feel and hear that these things are very real and when they were recorded was when they were happening." "I think a lot of the music that I'd written before that was specifically heartbreak stuff, was after things had been said and done, whereas this was really, everything you hear was an emotional rollercoaster, and moments in time that were very real and active. I think that was a new experience for me but it was very healing and therapeutic in the process." Don't miss our full Audacy Check In with Madison Beer above.

Now that Harry Styles owns 2026, it seems only right that we check in with the GRAMMY-winning artist to talk about his upcoming album, 'Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally,' his massive worldwide residency, and his new song, "Aperture." During a conversation with Bru, Styles shares that his 4th solo studio album arrives after some time away out of the spotlight, and some time in the crowd that has helped inform the sound of what's next. "The last couple of years, after finishing the tour and everything, I just kind of decided to take a couple of years away to kind of spend a bit more time swimming in different corners of my life that I hadn't necessarily paid that much attention to," Harry reveals. "The start of last year I kind of just decided I was gonna say yes to everything. I think I'd got really used to saying no to a lot of things just from being on the road, and missing certain things that maybe my friends were doing or something, and I kind of just wanted to take the year to just kind of go with it and be open to traveling a bit more and taking people up on invites and just experiencing things that otherwise I think I'd started kind of shutting myself off from a bit." "The last two years for me has been a lot about getting on the other side of the audience experience," Styles shares. "I think I've spent a lot of time being the one on stage, and I spent a lot of time the last couple of years going to shows, having my own music experiences of being a true audience member, and reminding myself how special that is and how amazing that feeling is to be in a room with people you know, and people you don't know, and dancing and singing and having this kind of common thing together." "When I'm on stage I wanna feel like I'm in the crowd and that was the reason why I think the album ended up sounding how it sounds. The intention was, 'how do I make it like it's made from within the crowd and not I'm up here delivering songs to you and you're receiving them?' It's like we're all here for the same thing, you know?" That story starts with "Aperture," which Harry explains was the last song recorded for the album, but encapsulates where he's at right now. "I think it came at a time when we were feeling at our freest," he says. "It felt kind of really obvious to me that it should be first on the album, so it was kind of like, 'oh this this is exactly how I've kind of always wanted to open an album,' with this this kind of song." "It's been a really important song to me. I think [it] represents the last couple of years of my life, the idea that you can really choose how much you let into your life, and if you're gonna be more closed off, then you're gonna close off to certain things but also you're gonna close off a lot of the positive things that can come. So I think kind of deciding at a time when I was trying to be more open in my life, I think this song wrapped that up pretty neatly for me." To here about Styles upcoming 'Together, Together' tour, and more about the album, 'Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally,' check out the full interview above.

As Five Finger Death Punch prepares to celebrate their 20th anniversary with new music and an extensive tour, guitarist Zoltan Bathory joins us once again for an Audacy Check In to share all the details. Earlier this week in announcing their 2026-2027 World Tour, the band also shared that they are helping support the U.S. Olympic Team with a portion of ticket proceeds, and that they are hard at work on their 10th studio album. "We have about 25-ish songs that [are] eventually gonna get chopped down to the ones that are gonna make it, but that's where we are," Zoltan says of the band's upcoming album. "Maybe 2, 3 of them have vocals on it already to some degree, so, you know, we're working on it." "We're going to the proper studio, probably sometime in February." After discussing the complexities of touring with a major Rock band like Five Finger Death Punch, Bathory admitted that he'd still never trade it because of the power of a Rock show. "There's something about a Rock show, you know, a real Rock show, a Metal show, there's nothing like it, it's a different vibe." "It's never gonna go away," he adds. "This is something that you can't, you know, AI can't fake it, you can't download it, the experience of being there, it's unrepeatable in any other way." "That's always been a goal, build more and more because you wanna create an experience, you wanna create an environment that's sort of immersive, because when you are at the show, it's like you're going to a theme park, you don't want to think of anything else, right? This is your moment where you can have this tribal experience and the noise of life goes away." For more on the 20th anniversary of the band and their upcoming tour, don't miss our full Audacy Check In with Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch above.

To celebrate the release of their latest single, "Searchlight," Shinedown joins us for a special Audacy LIVE, as the band talks with Rob + Holly about the making of the track, and performs the song exclusively inside our Audacy Sound Space. "The song just kind of came to us. It didn't take long to write, and when it came to, it just lent itself to that kind of thing," shares Zach Myers. "We're never like, 'this is the only chart we haven't been on. Let's go to this chart,' because then the next one we'd have to make like an R&B record. We've been on 5 so far." "That's one thing I respect so much about the Country world is, a good song is a good song is a good song, and that's all we care about. Whatever the song lends itself to is what we want it to be, we're never gonna try to force something." "The whole reason that we've been able to be able to be authentic and honest is because radio has allowed us to do that, our fan base has allowed us to do that." reveals Brent Smith. "You have to have something to say, and for 'Searchlight,' when we were in there, the initial first run of the song, it was a different song, and then I sat with it for a few days, went back into the studio with everybody, and said, 'let me re-sing this.'" "I just heard it differently than what had been presented in the demo," adds Brent. "And, you know, me and Zach were born and raised in Tennessee. He's 901, I'm 865, so Memphis and Knoxville. We were raised on Country music. We were raised on a lot of different music, but for the song, I just went in and said, 'let me do this and just hear me out.'" "We added a banjo because it asked for a banjo. We added a steel guitar and a slide because it asked for that, and it had more of an endearing quality because I sang it with a bit more of a draw. We have some people that listen to it that are in Country music that are like, 'this is very Country,' and then we have some people who are like, 'I don't know if it's Country,' and that's fine because at the end of the day we had to be honest with the song. We're a vessel for these songs. We have to be very open and allow the universe to talk to us." For more from Shinedown on their relationships with Carrie Underwood and Jelly Roll, and stories behind other hits like "Second Chance," don't miss the band's full conversation with Rob + Holly and a special performance of "Searchlight" above.

As big as 2025 was for YUNGBLUD, he's somehow already looking at a larger 2026. Fresh off the release of a collaboration EP with Rock icons Aerosmith, the "Zombie" singer has 3 GRAMMY nominations and a massive 2026 tour to look forward to as the calendar turns, but first, he joins us at the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk about it all during an Audacy Check In. "I'm really lucky to kind of have a couple of weeks to like try and comprehend it all," he shares with Brad Steiner on his massive year. "I think the biggest thing I'm feeling is gratitude. I think I'm really trying to make sure that I like feel everything because, I think if you don't stop and think about what goes on and you don't process it, you just end up becoming a dick." "This year has just been so insane, so I think the biggest feeling I'm feeling is is utter gratitude and I really feel lucky, you know what I mean?" YUNGBLUD admits he took some risks on his latest album, 'Idols,' and his authenticity paid off. "I think my 3rd album came out and I was listening to too many people. I think when you listen to too many people, you kind of create a character or you play a caricature of yourself," YUNGBLUD reveals. "I think with this album I really went home to the north of England and was like, 'I wanna make something that is completely limitless in terms of its imagination,' and leans on the side of like Rock opera, double album." Praising previous albums for inspiration like The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness' or Guns N' Roses' 'Use Your Illusion,' YUNGBLUD wanted an album "that would kind of take you on an adventure, and in 2025 everyone thought I was a bit f***ing mad." "I always wanna do it when it's truthful, if it's not truthful it's just soul destroying man, you know what I mean? I think that's what's been so beautiful about me and my community, we've always had, whether it be like starting a festival or gigs or how YUNGBLUD got built in the first place, it was always through an element of truth and always through an element of like, honest communication and when it wasn't becoming honest I was like, 'this is not what I did this for.'" Now a more pure version of himself, YUNGBLUD looks ahead to 2026 for sold out shows and finishing the project that brought him here. "I really wanna release the second part of 'Idols,'" he shares and reveals it's been ready to go "forever." "I really wanna finish the world, it's such a world that that if I don't put that out next, even though as an artist I'm writing a new album and I've almost like departed that in my soul because I wrote it, printed it to wax, and put it out - I've got to finish 'Idols 2,' and put that to the world because the world needs to feel that environment fully fleshed out." To hear more from YUNGBLUD on working with Aerosmith and his plans for 2026, check out the full interview above.

Before the band Daughtry wraps a busy 2025, lead singer Chris Daughtry joins us for an Audacy Check In to talk about the latest project, 'SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (PART TWO),' the standout song, "ANTIDOTE," and much more. From inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Daughtry linked up with Abe Kanan and revealed his approach to releasing music as EPs this year, giving fans more time to absorb each song. "We have fully experienced that, and to the point where we've noticed far more engagement to all the newer stuff that we're playing, because they got it in small doses," shares Daughtry. "They were able to absorb it and digest it before the tour as opposed to a full album's worth of stuff all at once, and they only latch on to like, you know, one or two songs." Speaking of tours, Chris has recently wrapped dates with Disturbed, and the band will be a part of the inaugural, 'Unwrapped: An Acoustic Holiday,' on Friday, December 12, in Everett, WA at Angel Of The Winds Arena. Daughtry will join Brent Smith and Zach Myers of Shinedown, The Pretty Reckless, Hollywood Undead, Mammoth, Sleep Theory, Des Rocs, and Return to Dust for this very special event. When thinking of tours he'd still like to be a part of, Shinedown is high on this list, as are some other Rock stalwarts. "I think Shinedown would be a fun tour, even Avenge Sevenfold is, as weird as that may sound to some people, I think that would be a really awesome tour." "We were able to go out with Disturbed, which I think, 5 years ago would have probably been laughable to a lot of their fans," admits Daughtry. "We went out on stage and it was like the place lit up and we're like, 'oh, this is working.'" With the constant touring and years of success, Daughtry has carved quite a lane for himself in the world of music, so much so that many forget his name is Chris and he's just known singularly as Daughtry, like Slash or Madonna. "They've been thinking that for years," he laughs. "I think the weirdest thing is when fans have come up to me and either named their cat Daughtry or their kid." "This is true. There is a girl out there in the universe that her first name is Daughtry. I don't know the last name, so that would really be interesting to know how those two ring together, but, yeah. I never thought of it as any other name than a surname, but, here we are" For more from Daughtry, check out the full conversation above.

Too cool to cry and too hot to stress, the one and only Meghan Trainor steps into the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In this week, fresh with her new single, "Still Don't Care," and on the way to the release of her seventh studio album, 'Toy With Me.'

Gwen Stefani has unwrapped a few new holiday songs this season, released the Deluxe Edition of her album, 'You Make It Feel Like Christmas,' and she continues to be the gift that keeps on giving with a No Doubt Las Vegas residency planned for The Sphere in 2026. Tis the season for more Stefani so lets dive into an Audacy Check In. Earlier this month Gwen debuted the Amazon Exclusive song, "Shake The Snow Globe," set to appear in the upcoming film, 'Oh. What. Fun.' which arrives on December 3. Stefani also found her sleighbell swagger on "Hot Cocoa," which is featured on the new deluxe version of her 2020 Christmas album, 'You Make It Feel Like Christmas.' "I wasn't even planning on it. I got this call last summer, they sent me the link and so I'm like sitting in Oklahoma at like 100 degrees asking my kids, 'hey, you want to watch this Christmas movie?'" reveals Gwen to Audacy's Dorothy Tran. "Sometimes things just come out of nowhere and it's just one of those things where, here we are again, and I just feel so grateful because every time I get asked to be part of anything these days, it's hard for me to explain it because people can't see it from my perspective, but you're always super grateful, but the longer it goes, the more you realize you're at the end of something. You have to be, you know what I mean? But then you get this life again and, so the gratitude just gets deeper." Becoming a Christmas Queen in her own right, Dorothy wanted to know when it's the right time to decorate for the holiday. For Gwen, it all depends on where she is with husband, Blake Shelton. "I live in Oklahoma now half the time, half the time here [in Los Angeles], and depending on if we're there for the holidays or not," she shares. "I love to do the fall stuff, like sometimes Blake will go out and we'll get stuff from nature and do a fall design around the door. We're such nerds, it's so much fun and we have like these little traditions now that we do. Well we didn't get to do it this year because we were here." "I think after Halloween it's fair game," Gwen says confidently. "You know what really I've learned is at the end you're just ready. You're like, get this out of my house. I don't want to see a snow globe ever again," she laughs. Once the lights are down and the tree is packed, there's plenty more in store for Gwen in 2026, as No Doubt's residency at The Sphere has stretched to 18 dates across May and June. The nostalgia is running deep as the band preps for the show, and they look back on the music that has impacted generations. "I love certain songs for what they've done, not just for me but for people, like a song like 'Don't Speak' that, it's just a pure song that didn't even make sense to No Doubt really, because it was so different from everything we were doing," says Stefani. "It just has so much, I guess, truth in it that it just transcends languages." Just last month Gwen found herself back on stage singing "Don't Speak," as an invited guest at Dua Lipa's Los Angeles show. "It was just, she knew. like it was such the perfect choice," gushes Gwen. "And then honestly, like I got up on stage and we did that together and she's just, she's a superhero. I mean, she is a Wonder Woman. She's so beautiful. She's disgustingly beautiful because it's not just the outside, she's just so smart and cool and beautiful on the inside." "It was crazy because at that point, when I said yes, I didn't know we were doing The Sphere," she shares. "When everything kind of aligns and it's like, 'wow,' like this is supposed to be happening, obviously, because there's no way you could plan that." For more from Gwen Stefani, check out the full conversation above.

Hip-Hop icons are in the building at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, as De La Soul joins us for an Audacy Check In, just days away from the release of their 10th studio album, 'Cabin In The Sky.' But this is not just any interview, it is a hilarious look at "the Rap scene" that only Cipha Sounds could provide. Part of Mass Appeal's Legend Has It series, 'Cabin in the Sky' marks De La Soul’s first studio album in 9 years, and features contributions from DJ Premier, Super Dave, Pete Rock, Killer Mike, Common, Nas, Black Thought, and Yukimi from Little Dragon. It arrives everywhere on November 21. Watch and listen as Pos and Maseo link up with Cipha Sounds inside Audacy Live, for a conversation only they could share. It's a side-splitting trip through time with some of the best in the game, and you don't want to miss it.

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Charlie Puth has revealed the lead track off his upcoming album, 'Whatever's Clever!,' and the GRAMMY-nominated singer recently joined us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk about the new project, life lately, and more during an Audacy Check In. Back with his new song, "Changes," Charlie is set to unwrap his fourth studio album in March. He's also set to become a dad in March, revealing earlier this month during an appearance on 'The Tonight Show.' "I think 'Changes' is actually about parting ways in a friendship, but not in a bad blood kind of way," Puth reveals to Mike Adam. "People move on, people get older, people will get married, they move, circumstance based. The people you hang out with now are sometimes, unfortunately not the people you're always going to hang out with." "That's not a sad thing nor a happy thing. It's kind of like right in the middle. You might be bummed out, but there might be a really great things happening in your life because of it, whether it be like a job opportunity, or what have you. I also feel like anybody can relate to that." When asked by Adam if Charlie feels like "a child is going to calm your mind and maybe make you more present," Puth was quick to answer yes. "And being present is how I make, in my opinion, my best work." "I used to have this incorrect thought process that I had to have a chaotic life in the background to make good art. Couldn't be more wrong and a lot of artists have said that too." "It's interesting how, because I guess from the outside you look at an artist, you think, 'oh, that's a rock star' or 'he or she must be really going through something to write X, Y, and Z,' but they might actually be the happiest they've ever been. At least for me, I've made the best work, just the happiest I've ever been, and I feel like I am the happiest I've ever been and having a a baby will just add to that." For more from Charlie Puth, check out our full Audacy Check In from the Hard Rock Hotel New York above.

Metal God Rob Halford of Judas Priest is with us for an Audacy Check In, here to update us on the latest from the iconic band, and share stories about the making of their new charity version of "War Pigs," featuring vocals from Ozzy Osbourne recorded before his passing. "War Pigs" has long been a staple of Judas Priest's live show, and now a new version has arrived featuring vocals from Ozzy Osbourne, and it's all for a great cause. All profits from audio streams, downloads, and physical sales of the recording, are being donated to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s. "When we first came up with this idea of making what we call, the Judas Priest Heavy Metal style of 'War Pigs,' we knew we had to tread carefully because it's such a beloved song for Sabbath fans, Ozzy fans all over the world," Halford shares with Abe Kanan. "So, we wanted to make sure that we didn't go too far away from the original classic concept idea." Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton, was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2008, however he first revealed the news to fans in 2018 when he stepped away from touring with the band. A few short years later, Ozzy shared his own Parkinson's diagnosis in 2020. Now the band is raising money with a new massive version of the classic track. "My voice in that song is in the same kind of tonal range as Ozzy, which makes it work even better, you know? It really feels like it was destined to be," he adds. "All the contributions are going to Cure Parkinson's, which was Ozzy's big foundation. And then, of course, Glenn Tipton's foundation." Halford admits he still has a lot to give the Metal community and fans around the world. "In my heart, I can't see me ever stopping," Rob reveals. "It's vital to me, I have to do this. I have to do this this work, this Metal work. It sustains me. It keeps me motivated. And all great things are happening now more than ever before, so, who would want to stop that, you know?" To hear from Rob Halford on keeping his voice in shape, the resurgence of Metal, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Fresh off the release of her surging new single, "bittersweet," Madison Beer joins us for an Audacy Check In to talk about new music, her recent performance at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, and more from inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York. The GRAMMY-nominated singer is prepping for a new project, and shared with Audacy's Mike Adam some of the emotions and inspirations that went into the upcoming album's creation. "It's all me, baby," she smiles when asked about selecting singles and the rollout of her next chapter. "I get opinions from everybody, but sometimes too many opinions overwhelm me," she adds. "These felt like in my gut what I wanted to do, and I feel like 'yes baby' was a good song to sort of re-engage people ideally, and get them excited. Also, not close out forever, but like close out the dance stuff a little bit and now introduce the real sound of this album, and what you could really expect. So 'bittersweet' really represents sonically what the album feels like. Both the happy and sad sides of Madison Beer occupy the next album, with Madison admitting, "they're both driving this ship this time around. They both are coexisting now, which is what I'm really excited about, their coexistence." "I feel like I started to really find the true energy, a couple of months ago, probably 6 months ago," she says of getting into the groove of this new project. "I don't know exactly when it was, but sometimes things just start to flow and you're just in that flow state of like, 'yes, I'm doing this and it feels really good.'" Just hours before sitting with us at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Beer was a borough away ruling the runway at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show in Brooklyn. "I got to meet so many of the OG angels, which was so cool and amazing, and they were all so sweet to me, and I was like, 'you guys know who I am?' It was crazy," she gushes. "It's also a huge room and it's such a whirlwind, and everyone's changing, and taking off makeup. It's so fast. As soon as the show is done, everyone's jetting out of there, but it was so cool." "I can't really believe that I did that. There's been so many iconic performers that have done it, so I just feel very honored to be a part of it." Don't miss our full Audacy Check In with Madison Beer above.

YUNGBLUD is once again having a moment, continuing to forge his own path in the world of Rock, thanks to sincere songwriting, electric performances, and a few heavy co-signs from iconic artists. The "Zombie" singer recently joined us for an Audacy Check In to catch up on all of it, and he admits that conquering doesn't come easy. Still feeling the love from this summer's album, 'Idols,' YUNGBLUD has been everywhere ever since, first at the final Black Sabbath show in July, and ultimately with Aerosmith at the MTV VMAs honoring the life of Ozzy Osbourne. He also collaborated with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on an upcoming EP, arriving everywhere on November 21. After receiving a message from Perry, pouring on praise for his song "Hello Heaven, Hello," YUNGBLUD made plans to connect with Joe and Steven in Florida. "I went for a drink with the Aerosmith guys and I secretly held a studio, cause if you're on a first date, you're either gonna go on with each other or you're not gonna get on," he shares. "Luckily we went home with each other, you know, within an hour I was like, 'I've got a studio around the corner, you want to get in,' and they were like, 'yeah.'" "When we got together, we were so similar energetically, we're two puppies. I say me and Steven are puppies and Joe's a cat. Joe Perry's a cat, we're puppies, you know what I mean? Joe Perry's like, 'I'm gonna sit here and look cool as f*** and I'm gonna play my guitar,' and me and Steven are just like, 'woo woo woo.'" "There was this beautiful sense of healthy competition between me and Steven," he adds. "We were just trying to outdo each other, and then all of a sudden Joe's going, 'wow, he's hitting notes that I've not heard him hit in years.'" YUNGBLUD goes on to share details of the incoming EP, 'One More Time,' teasing a song that's "stadium rock & roll" and another that's "outlaw Country," as well as a juiced-up version of "Back In The Saddle" from Aerosmith. "We're like family now." Once again YUNGBLUD is set for another tour of states, one which sold out in mere minutes when it went on sale. "As an Englishman, you know, and an English Rock musician, the whole dream is to break America," he reveals. In one of his final interactions with Ozzy Osbourne, the icon told him to "conquer America," and that's just what he has set out to do. "I've always been obsessed with playing Rock music in America because it's where it came from. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, it's where it came from, and I think that's why breaking America for a British Rock musician is so sacred," YUNGBLUD explains. "It's where the genre began, it came out of the blues, it came out of the swamps. I think Rock music is such a beautiful genre because it's adherent to where it came from. It's very respectful to its history. I think that's why it's a safeguarded genre. I think Hip-Hop and Pop music give the crown up to whatever's biggest, Rock music doesn't give its crown easily because you need to be vetted multiple times." "My vibe is this, if you are unsure about me, come see me live, and I'll blow your mind. Promise." For much more from YUNGBLUD check out the full Audacy Check In above.

'The Residency' is a new live album from Sammy Hagar and The Best of All Worlds Band, celebrating their Dolby Live at Park MGM run in Las Vegas earlier this year. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, The Red Rocker recently joined Remy Maxwell for an Audacy Check In to talk about the new release, recent projects with Nickelback, the status of his relationship with David Lee Roth, and more. Featuring Michael Anthony (bass, vocals), Joe Satriani (guitar), Kenny Aronoff (drums), and Rai Thistlethwayte (keyboards, guitar, vocals), the album captures Sammy's 2025 stretch with an electric live album, touring through a lifetime of hits from Hagar. "I'm in love with this record," shares Sammy. "I've got 3 live records in my life that I'm in love with. Number one, J. Geils' 'Full House.' Humble Pie live at 'The Fillmore,' and 'Frampton Comes Alive.' Those records, when you sit down and crank them up, which I still do today, they make you feel like you're there. And this record, 'The Residency,' makes you, makes me, makes anyone feel like you're there. And so, mission accomplished, otherwise I wouldn't make it." Sammy will return to Dolby Live in 2026 for new performances of The Best of All Worlds residency, March 11–21 and September 18–26, 2026. Tickets are available at RedRocker.com. We also had to ask Hagar about the current status of his relationship with David Lee Roth, as DLR recently shared some kind words towards Sammy on stage, and Hagar has since said he'd be up for "hanging out" with Roth. "Assuming David would behave himself, yeah, we could," says Sammy. "It's not like it's my wish list or my bucket list. It's just that Dave is, he's so unique and to me he's so over-the-top entertainer, you know. I'd like to hang with them under the circumstances where we've let all this crap go because I've certainly let it go." "Anybody that wants to compare us today is crazy," he adds. "If you want to compare our old stuff, well you're just as crazy because it's both great, and we did both did the best we could at the time. And now we're doing what we're doing. So let all that go and not try to be competitive with Dave and I'm sure he'd be a fun hanging for a while. I mean, I'm sure it'll come a time ago, 'what you wanna what? You were thinking, what?' But, yeah, I'm serious about it." "When he said those things about me, about being a great singer and things like that, and has a great catalog, I'm going, 'see, he's now getting past it too,' because he's never ever complimented me on anything that I know of anyway. I thought that's very nice. So if you're going to be nice, if you want to be nice, then I can be nice. I don't wanna dig any ditches again. I just don't, would never want to dig any holes and go down that. It's just so stupid." To hear more from Sammy Hagar about 'The Residency,' his work with Nickelback, and much more check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Let 'em know, BIA is the building at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, and "WE ON GO" with the rapper for an Audacy Check In to talk about her official debut album, 'BIANCA,' and more. The Massachusetts-born MC has been in the game for nearly a decade, dropping fire features and breaking through on songs like "WHOLE LOTTA MONEY," and her latest inescapable anthemic track, "WE ON GO." Now she's out with her official debut album, 'BIANCA,' which is now available everywhere. After talking about the her come up from Boston and her first time putting pen to paper as a rapper, BIA told DJ Buck and Regg about the making of 'BIANCA,' and her goals with the project. "I wanted to come different but a lot more intentional," she shares. "I had success with songs that were like fun songs, and like upbeat, you know, like braggadocios songs but not songs that were internally carrying a message. I felt like I was seeing where my songs would land in the world and what it does to the world and community. I wanted to have a bigger presence in community and I wanted to have like more well-rounded songs that could play in any area, any space." "I think I've been able with this project to find a way to to be both, like the vulnerable side of me as I'm growing into more of a woman and just like finding my way through life is softer. I'm more of a softer woman, but then still like that same rapper that people know and love me for. The duality between both of those people on one project." "I think this album is my most vulnerable album, my most intentional," she adds. "Even me starting this album off with the track 'October.' It's so outside of my range. I didn't want people to be able to guess what the next song was gonna be. 'October' is so different from anything else I've ever sung before in my life, so I just wanted to really show my range and show people like, this is soft, this is vulnerable, but also like, watch that ass." To hear more about the making of 'BIANCA,' BIA's inspirations, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Louis Tomlinson is ready to release the record he always "deserved to make," but first he joins us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In to talk about the lead single, "Lemonade," and more. 'How Did I Get Here?' is due out everywhere on January 23, 2026, and Tomlinson is bursting with pride about the process and the way he pushed himself to create this time around. "I wanted to write and record somewhere tropical, somewhere visually very different from home and somewhere quite literally far away from home," Louis shares. "So we decided to do Costa Rica in a lovely little town called Santa Teresa, and it's absolutely beautiful." "Songs like 'Lemonade,' I don't think would have happened in England. There was just something magical about the place that we were in, the tempo, the way of living, the freedom, all of that. So I think that it's a byproduct of the beautiful, beautiful environment that we're in." It all starts with a sonically shimmering and swaggering lead single, "Lemonade," which announces a new beginning for Tomlinson and willingness to be big, fun, and fearless. "It's something I've been trying to challenge myself to more, you know, it's kind of infinite, the deep dive of being creative," reveals Louis. "With this record, I wanted it to be really ambitious and I wanted to try and step it up a level, creatively. You've gotta kind of push yourself to do those things." "I mean, you know, I'm saying push yourself creatively while being in paradise in Costa Rica. It wasn't all that bad, you know." Before the new release arrives in 2026, fans around the globe are still celebrating the 15th anniversary of One Direction forming. Nearly a year after the passing of Liam Payne, the group has stayed mostly silent on the milestone, but Tomlinson did take some time to look back on 1D during his time at the Hard Rock Hotel. When asked about the One Direction song that he didn't necessarily like when it was dropped, but now he looks back on with fond memories, Louis was quick to keep it real. "I still don't like the lead single, 'What Makes You Beautiful,' honestly," he shares. "I think actually the first couple of records, the first couple of albums at the time, I wasn't in love with them but now when I listen back, there's definitely a lot of nostalgia there. But 'What Makes You Beautiful,' I don't think I'll ever get around to that, to be honest." Louis also admits that "there's loads" of unreleased One Direction songs. "There's a couple that got leaked over the years," he says, although you likely will never hear the rest. "I'm kind of a little bit funny about that, especially when they leak and stuff, cause it's often a reason they've not made the record. That's often been like a creative choice. The songs were probably not good enough to make the record at the time, you know, probably still good songs, but there's probably close to like, I don't know, 50, 60 songs like that." To hear more from Louis Tomlinson about his recording process, the joy of house plants, and Halloween plans, check out the full Audacy Check In above.