While celebrating the 25th anniversary of their landmark album, 'Break The Cycle,' Staind is already hard at work on what’s next. The band shared their new single, “Ghosts,” this week and singer Aaron Lewis joined Abe Kanan to dive into new music and their humbling “second chance” with sold out crowds.

Somewhere between shows with Guns N’ Roses, producing Horror movies, and raising a couple kick ass kids, Slash has found space to put together another Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators album, Flying Blind, which arrives everywhere on February 26.

The guitar god recently zoomed in with Abe Kanan to talk about the group’s lead single and title track, “Flying Blind,” which matches Myles soaring vocals with Slash’s unmistakable searing sound. The group will also celebrate new music with a massive world tour, which is no easy feat given Slash’s schedule.

“When we do a record, we've always done a world tour, but it's gotten more complicated because I got back into Guns N’ Roses and that sort of changed the amount of time and all that, that I could be able to do anything,” shares Slash. “Same with Myles doing Alter Bridge and everybody's doing all this different stuff. So when we did this record, we actually found a window to go into pre-production, which was last year. And then after that found another window to go in the studio and actually record everything. We did this in segments where everybody was available. And so we carved out 2027 for the year that we're gonna tour.”

Reluctant to talk about material he’s putting out, even Slash has to admit that the band’s latest project is a “cool record.”

“I listened to it yesterday for a couple of songs, because I have not listened to the mastered CD yet, and I put it on, I was like, ‘f***, this sounds really good.’”

As part of one of America’s most iconic band, Slash has still always found time for other projects, from Michael Jackson solos to Slash’s Snake Pit, Velvet Revolver, and beyond.

“When I got back into Guns N’ Roses, I was like, ‘well, one thing I'm not going to do is I'm not going to disband the Conspirators,’ because that is something that we as a band established that we really love to do, and so I keep that going.”

“I do other stuff too, because Guns is on the road for huge chunks of time and you're not doing anything else but that, but then you come home for a couple of months and I can't sit still. So next thing you know, I'm recording or we're doing whatever.”

To hear more from Slash about producing Horror movies and being recognized in public, check out the full Audacy Check In above. Flying Blind is out everywhere on February 26.

In town for business, Lainey Wilson found her way to our Los Angeles studios to talk with Bru about her recent collab with John Mayer on “Phone, Keys, Wallet,” newlywed life with Duck, and what the Country star is still chasing after accomplishing so much.

Still learning to sit still, Wilson shared with Bru some of the activities she’s recently embraced to slow her whirlwind life. "I've been writing a lot of poetry which has been giving me an opportunity to sit still and like look inward,” she admits. “I've also been doing a lot of bird watching."

The singer is still celebrating her most recent collab, working with John Mayer on the song, “Phone, Keys, Wallet.” The guitar icon came to the track organically according to Lainey, who happened to see Mayer at the right place at the right time. “At Chaplin Studios, we were putting a song together and John happened to be there in the studio over,” she explains. “We took the cellphone over there and we were like, ‘hey, John, you gotta listen to this,’ and he listened and I was like, ‘do you want to play on it?’”

“First time meeting him and he's like, ‘let's do it right now.’ So he went and grabbed his guitars and played on it just right there and I think honestly that's when you find like those special magical moments, the ones that really aren't planned, the ones that just happened.”

“He's a cool person and he's just as kind as he is talented and he's become a dear friend of mine, which is kind of crazy for me to say because I mean he's, I just look up to him in so many different ways, but he's taught me a lot even just getting to write music with him and be a part of his world that way. I feel like he's teaching me how to like color outside of the lines a little bit which is fun.”

With so much success in Country music and beyond, is there anything still on the list that Lainey Wilson is chasing these days? “For me, I am just chasing really the thing that matters the most to me, which is just connecting to people, just connecting with as many people as I possibly can,” Wilson reveals. “I think that's what really this is all about in the grand scheme of things, you know, when I sit back and I'm still and I realize the big picture of things.”

Next up for Wilson is another turn hosting the CMA Awards, and an opening slot for Harry Styles as part of his 'Together, Together' tour.

“To tell you the truth, I don't really get starstruck over people, but there was a moment where I was back there with him, and I was like, ‘this is Harry Styles.’ This is crazy,” admits Lainey.

To hear more from Lainey Wilson, check out the full Audacy Check In above.