One of Pop’s most fearless artists, Tove Lo, has returned with the new album, ESTRUS, bringing her distinct songwriting and unmistakable dancefloor presence into a new chapter of exploration.

The “I’m your girl right?” singer stopped by our Los Angeles studios recently to talk with Bru, unpacking some of the lyrics of her latest project, looking back on her breakout era, and discussing the balance of personalities that contribute to her ever-evolving career.

“It was such a blend of, 'Oh my god, my dreams are coming true, and is that really real?' and then the culture shock of like Sweden to America,” Tove Lo says of her initial success a decade ago. “Just being kind of excited and terrified all the time."

A long way from “Habits,” Tove Lo’s latest work explores where she is now, oscillating between perfection and messy, and even wondering if she’s meant for motherhood.

“I've been told in therapy throughout my whole life that I have these two personalities inside me,” she reveals. “One is very Type A, perfectionist, mean, very hard on myself, and then the other one is messy, more forgiving, but also can be quite destructive if she's left alone for too long."

"So those two are always battling each other, and finding balance between them is my sweet spot and my lifelong goal, which I still haven't reached.”

Tove Lo admits in songs like “source of life” and “if I could I would,” it’s that “messy” side singing to the “perfectionist,” being “thrown between two very contradicting emotions is kind of that... all the feelings in a pressure cooker ready to come out.”

By writing what she was feeling and not caring what anyone would think about it, Tove Lo unlocked the meaning behind ESTRUS.

"I was like, 'I don't need to have any kind of message.' Like, you're not some kind of inspirational person, you're just an emotional artist,” Tove says. “If I just write from what I need to say, that can become inspirational. But if I try to write something where I'm like, 'This is me giving advice,' who never follows my own advice ever, like, that's not a good place to start.”

For more on the making of ESTRUS, check out the full conversation above.

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.

It’s been sold out crowds for Staind as they honor their 2001 album, alongside other era standouts, Hoobastank and Hinder. The band has had so much success on the road that they have announced a second leg starting in 2027.

"It's so crazy that it feels like a second chance,” admits Lewis. “It's insane.”

“Humbling. It's a so full of gratitude moment. To have somehow been given the opportunity to play for a whole new audience after 25 years, almost 30 years."

In this major moment of resurgence for Staind, the band has unleashed new music, with the lead single from their new album now available everywhere. According to Lewis, it’s from the new album, The Space Between the Darkness and the Light, coming “soon.”

“I know it'll come out soon. I know that it's done,” he explains. “I'm pretty confident in saying that it's a hell of a record, and I'm proud to put it out.”

“I think it's a great continuation of the thread that you can follow in Staind’s music, which is my lyrical content. And it fits right in with everything before it perfectly,” he adds. “Basically all the Staind records, start from the beginning and move forward has been an adult man trying to navigate his way through the wreckage that was left behind from childhood trauma, and I'm 54 years old now and I'm still trying to make my way through the wreckage that was left behind.”

For more from Staind, check out the full conversation above. “Ghosts” is now available everywhere.

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.