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.

Audacy 'LAUNCH' artist Audrey Hobert has had a whirlwind 2026, and is finally home between her own year-long tour and heading overseas to open for Charli XCX. Bru caught up with the “Sue Me” singer to talk about her exhaustive trek, working with her brother, Malcolm Todd, and why she wants to pretend “this never happened” to make new music.

Audrey has gone from never having played a show to touring continuously for nearly a year. ”Last time I talked to you, I had never played a show ever, and now I've been touring for almost a year, so I'm a bit different,” Hobert tells Bru. “If I seem jaded, it's because I am.”

“I'm just f***ing tired, but I'm grateful, but I'm tired.”

Hobert finds herself in a state of “realizing things” she says, after her non-stop string of tour dates. “Being on the road, you exist in a state of super high highs and super low lows, and I've been home for almost two weeks and It's very important to me that I don't feel like I need that to feel alive.”

“I think real life is being able to be happy in a routine, at least that's how I feel, and so I'm just gonna be working towards that because it's such a crazy experience to be on the road.”

Part of the success for Hobert has been her transparency and authenticity, and she knows no other way. “I just am, I can't help it but be myself 100% of the time,” she admits. “Also one of the things I've learned in being on the road all year is, I think sometimes people in my position might think that they need to be quote unquote ‘on,’ in a lot of situations, and I just realized very quickly that that was gonna be more exhausting for me than to just be myself wherever I was.”

Next for Audrey Hobert is back to creating music, a process she needs to retreat to accomplish. “I feel pretty certain that removing myself from all this sort of front-facing parts of this will be very important,” Hobert reveals. “I'm sort of planning on pretending as much as I can that none of this ever happened, so that I can just kind of slip into the shadows where I feel most comfortable.”

For more from Audrey Hobert, check out the full conversation above.