Kevin Jonas recently joined us inside the Rockstar Suite at Hard Rock Hotel New York to celebrate the release of his new song, “Little Things” during an Audacy Check In, hosted by Mike Adam.

An ode to his wife of 17 years, “Little Things” celebrates the small moments in their life that add up to a big reason why they are still going strong. It’s a song so good that Kevin interrupted a family dinner out, to listen to it for the first time with his wife, Danielle.

“We actually stood up at dinner and actually went out to the car, and listened to the song,” Kevin says when first getting the track back. They listened to it “like 5 more times,” before returning to finish their meal. “She loved it, definitely one of her favorites.”

“What's really cool about, I think all of our wives, especially mine, they are pop girlies,” Jonas says. “When their gut's like, ‘Yo, this is the one,’ it's like you kind of need to listen.”

Even the kids are hyped for Kevin’s music, acutely aware of the JoBros phenomenon at ages 12 and 9. “The first time they ever came to a show was the ‘Happiness Begins’ tour,” he says. “I had been doing this already for 10, 12 years before that, but of course, the band had broken up.”

“It's really cool to see that my girls were excited about my music.”

Before letting Kevin go, Mike Adam had to ask the Disney star about his own Disney Mount Rushmore. Who would he place in those prestigious places?

“This is hard. I'm just gonna go with, Cheetah Girls straight across,” he answers, trying to avoid. “No, you can't do that. That's cheating,” fires back Mike.

“OK, so Cheetah Girls is like the OG. Hilary Duff, the OG. Phineas and Ferb, they've got some really good songs on there, and then of course the Jonas Brothers.”

To hear more from Kevin Jonas on new music and more, check out the full conversation above.

During a visit to the Rockstar Suite at Hard Rock Hotel New York, Myles Smith sat down with Mike Adam for an Audacy Check In, offering a look at his life before his success in music, and a preview of his upcoming debut album.

Before the success of “Stargazing” and the the start of Smith’s rise in the music industry, Myles shares that he had started a consulting business, backed by his degree in sociology. “I had my own consultancy in business management, so I used to like help businesses run their management and operations, pretty boring,” he laughs.

There are things that he carries with him through his sociology experience, including the simple yet often hard to grasp concept of how similar we are. “I think it's just like understanding people and like the trends and patterns,” he says. “No matter where we are in the world, just how much we experience life in such similar ways, and it's so beautiful.”

'My Mess, My Heart, My Life.' is the debut album from Myles Smith, and it arrives everywhere on June 19. The final tracklist consists of 10 "brand new tracks" and 5 songs that document his "journey here," which he views as a way to "round off chapter one” of his career.

“The most vulnerable I feel is definitely when I'm writing,” he admits. “There's no real stop gap between my brain and what goes onto a record and I I love doing it that way. I think the more that you try to like polish things or make them sound how you think people want to hear them, the worse the song gets, so I just try and write as authentically as possible.”

To hear more from Myles Smith about collaborating with his favorite artists and what he’s learned from Ed Sheeran, check out the full conversation above.

New Gracie Abrams music is out in the world, as the GRAMMY-nominated singer has revealed her new single, “Hit the Wall,” along with plans for her third studio album, 'Daughter from Hell,' where she once again teams with producer Aaron Dessner. Abrams joined us this week inside the Rockstar Suite at Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk about the new project, along with her first film role, and recent visit to The Met Gala.

Sitting for an Audacy Check In with Mike Adam, Gracie detailed the upcoming A24 film she’s set to be a part of, as well as the making of 'Daughter from Hell,' which arrives everywhere on July 17.

“We challenge each other,” Abrams says as she praises her collaborator, Aaron Dessner, “and some of my favorite experiences in the studio with him is when we disagree because it always teaches me something. I love him for a million reasons, but I really appreciate that he's kind of helped instill in me that you don't need to make a radical change in order to put out a new album. It doesn't have to sound 100% different than your last thing. It can be a continuation and a discovery of what made you fall in love with writing in the first place.”

“This album to me feels like an elevated version of our process working together and I'm very proud of it.”

So for Gracie, does that make the creative process easier after years of collaboration and earned understanding? “It was actually not,” she admits. “I think it was more intricate. As a whole, it was more intricate. I feel everything, we ran all of it through with a fine tooth comb and this was like the most I've ever been involved in production before. Aaron and I have such a shorthand, like the way that we describe sounds or what we want, it's like the very exciting part of being in the studio together, and so to see it come to life in the way that it has with this album means a lot to me.”

“But the process of getting there was not always easy and I think the first songs that we made for this album we wrote two years ago,” Abrams shares. “I think what differed with this process was like being off tour and having like 5 months of not being on the road to sit with all the songs and to let my nervous system sort of reset. I feel like there's more patience, kind of less manic energy in this music.”

“It feels more thoughtful, but I think that also just comes with age and time and giving yourself and the subjects of your songs more grace, and so hopefully that's felt.”

To hear from Gracie about her experience at The Met Gala, her thoughts on Noah Kahan’s new album, and more, check out the full conversation above. 'Daughter from Hell' is out everywhere on July 17.

Teddy Swims is launching into a new chapter, full of amazing dad energy, appreciation, and the sweet and humble spirit that has made him so beloved by fans. The GRAMMY-nominated singer recently stopped by for an Audacy Check In with Bru, to talk about what’s next, and the everlasting legacy of his hit, “Lose Control.”

Nearing his first birthday, Swims remains glowing about his son and life as a dad. “He'll be a year on June 23rd, man,” he says, astonished. “It's kind of nature, like it's kind of ingrained in you. The the first time I met him, you know, I got to hold him when he was born it was like there was so much that was like, as soon as I held him I was like, ‘I've always been your dad.’ I think it's so primal, things that you just know what to do and how to do, and your instincts are cat-like all of a sudden when he's around, you know what I mean?”

“There's so many things that I felt like I was going to be so ill prepared for, because I totally didn't read the books or do the things, but I was like, ‘OK, well, I get it.’ I think I'm doing all right and my dad's the best dad in the world, so I just kind of try to copy and paste and call and ask questions when I can and be like, ‘Dad, am I like doing good?’”

As Swims enters his next project, including the recently released “Mr. Know It All,” he emphasizes the importance of surrounding himself with musicians who are better than him. "I mean truly, like if you're the best guy in the room, you're probably in the wrong room,” he shares.

With an upcoming North American arena tour, Teddy stresses the challenge of maintaining intimacy on a big stage. “We've been playing arenas pretty much everywhere except for America,” he says. “Live music has still gotta be that fun too, and not that it's any less fun in a big arena or something, it's just that like there's so many tiny moving parts that go into it that there's not as much room for like, ‘Hey man, forget this, let's play this song instead.’ You know what I mean?”

In any room, “Lose Control” remains a force, and a song that will stay with Teddy Swims forever. “It's gonna outlive me,” admits Teddy. “It's one of the greatest tunes ever, it's done like so much and it's got so many accolades to it and it just continues to grow and it's still crushing.”

“I just recently performed at Preservation Hall, with the band there in New Orleans, and this lady came up to me and she was like, ‘you know, when you got up there, I was like, this guy just kind of looks like Post Malone and Jelly Roll had a baby and I was like, what is this guy gonna sound like and then he started playing ‘Lose Control’ and I was like, oh, that's that guy. I know that.'”

For much more from Teddy Swims, check out the full conversation above.

Continuing a crossover revolution, MONSTA X made history once again earlier this month with the release of their 3rd English language album, 'Unfold.' The first K-pop group to release 3 LPs in English finds themselves continuing to level up their game with growth and healing on the new project, and they stopped by our Los Angeles studios for an Audacy Check In with Bru to talk all about it.

While sitting with Bru, the members of MONSTA X reflected on the changes and progress experienced in the five years since their last full English album, emphasizing the value of patience and consistency. They described 'Unfold' as having more "emotions” and more “skills" than their previous outings, and they continue to upgrade their sound and overall experience.

'Unfold' also sees MONSTA X experimenting with new sounds, like the bombastic gospel soaring of the focus track, “heal,” and doubling down on dance-floor flooding melodies on songs like “baby blue,” or sincere and serene ballads like “before you met me.”

There is still a lot these trailblazers want to do sharing the goals of performing an all-English setlist during their US tour, achieving a stadium tour in America, and winning a GRAMMY, but through it all there’s one constant, “everything” is for the fans.

For more from MONSTA X, check out the full conversation above.

Meghan Trainor is dancing her way through the pain, as the GRAMMY-winning singer has returned with the new album, 'Toy With Me,' bright and beautiful but fueled by some real tough emotions behind-the-scenes.

Trainor recently stopped by for an Audacy Check In with Bru, and told us that a combo of kids, learning about herself, and a barrage of online criticism served as the backdrop to her latest effort, writing 'Toy With Me' as a form of “therapy.”

“I'm overwhelmed and frustrated and angry and learning about my body still, like ADHD, I just got diagnosed with,” Meghan reveals. “All my 3 kids are at that young age where they're going to school and they're picking up germs, so all in one week there's been a lot of diarrhea and pink eye, and infections and, so I'm very overwhelmed, and angry.”

“I was very angry and sassy, like ‘Get In Girl,’ was written about a real breakup that happened in my family, and so I was so heartbroken. A lot of my online content I just got so much hate for the first time ever, like back right back on my body. Everyone just wants to talk about my body and it was heartbreaking, but I got to write all these bangers out of it and so I'm using this album as my therapy to get me out of this little dark overwhelmed cloud that I'm in. So I can go dance and party and celebrate and escape this crazy world for a minute.”

After running through some of her music video moments from 'Toy With Me,' the talk turned to Meghan’s personal life, which includes a recent renewal of vows with her husband, and having 3 children. For Meghan her experience in being a Pop star has laser focused some of the feelings all parents have, especially with her daughter. “A majority of my job is being commented on, on my body and it's never about like my talent or my songs anymore. It's all like what she looks like her with bangs, her outfits, her choices, and I wanted to write on this album like, ‘buckle up daughter like this world it's gonna be a little bit rough for us,' but I didn't end up doing that. I just wrote these big anthems that are like, ‘I don't care about what people think. It's OK.’"

“I went in that direction instead of just being sad,” she adds. “It changes a lot, it's just like highlighted. I think everyone feels these things with social media, but mine has like 18 million people looking.”

For much more from Meghan Trainor, check out the full Audacy Check In above. Toy With Me is now available everywhere.

Fresh from the debut of her new single, “drop dead,” and an appearance on the Coachella stage, Olivia Rodrigo made her way to our Los Angeles studios for an Audacy Check In conversation with Bru.

Rodrigo's third studio album, 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,' is set to arrive on June 12, packed with freedom, fun, and a personal challenge to herself as a songwriter.

"I just love writing songs so much and I hope that my love for writing and music comes through in these songs,” she says. “I just had a blast and I felt really free and happy and I hope that that's, you know, palpable on the record."

“So many of the songs are about joy, which is really fun to write about for the first time,” Olivia adds. “There's obviously a lot of sadness and longing and whatever I injected into it, but, yeah, I feel really free and I feel like more myself than ever and, I'm just really, really excited for people to hear the whole album.”

Being in what she calls her first “big girl relationship,” Rodrigo took up the challenge of writing something meaningful. “Writing a song about happiness is a lot harder than writing a song about heartbreak, I think.”

“It was sort of challenging myself to make a love song and also sort of talk about some of the more negative feelings that go along with being in romantic relationships, like, longing and yearning and jealousy and missing your partner while they're away, and that was kind of the the challenge for me is to try to marry those two worlds.”

It all fits within the title, which Rodrigo says came from talk with her producer, Dan Nigro. "I was having a conversation with my producer Dan about something and he was like, ‘oh, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,’ just in conversation. I was like ‘that's it. That's gonna be the album title.’ I'm really happy with it. It really captures, I think, the entire thesis statement of what I was trying to do."

The next chapter for Olivia began earlier this month with “drop dead,” and a visual of her running through the Palace of Versailles. “It's so stunning and we were lucky enough to be able to film there basically alone for like a night, which was so rad,” she reveals. “I felt like I was in ‘Night at the Museum.’ I felt like the statues were gonna like come alive and start jousting or something."

"It was so special and, I think that that song, ‘drop dead,’ is sort of about like falling for someone and dreaming so big and having all these high hopes, and so I think the Palace of Versailles is such a great backdrop for it because there's so much opulence and so much like glitz and glamour and when you're like falling in love with someone for the first time I think that that's sort of what it feels like, or that's what you're hoping for, and so I'm really happy with it.”

For more from Olivia Rodrigo, check out the full conversation above. 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' is out everywhere on June 12.

Fresh off the release of “Who Will You Follow,” Evanescence have revealed plans for their upcoming album, 'Sanctuary,' due out June 5. Amy Lee joined Abe Kanan for an Audacy Check In to talk touring, the inspiration for the album, and what it means to balance motherhood and music.

The album has been a work in progress for "3 years solid," with Amy sharing that the new song, "Who Will You Follow," was the second-to-last track written for the project. “I felt very fueled, by the state of the world creatively,” she says of the song and album. “I feel like I have a ton to get off my chest. This music is a sanctuary for me.".

"I've been kind of underground for the beginning of this year. I just sort of had to disappear and finish all the lyrics, which seemed more important than ever, and finally pulled my head up and we just finished the album.”.

Lee views the music, and the new album 'Sanctuary,' as a personal haven and a space for self-expression without censorship. She also notes that she is now less "precious and insecure" about collaboration than earlier in her career, working with 3 producers on the new project. “It's just like, here it is,” says Amy. “I'm not afraid of rejection. I want to open my heart to hear what somebody else has to say.”.

“I feel like, when we were making our first music, when we were making our first album, I was just shy. It was hard to share with anybody and also, you know, really trying to prove myself in those first couple of albums, especially like as a writer. Everybody knows I'm a singer, but like let me do my s*** all myself, a lot of the time, when it just doesn't have to be that way.” .

“Music is from the universe, like all these things that we share, this is spiritual, this is deeper than one person's journey, but at the same time it's all very, very specifically personal to me in my life.”.

For more from Amy Lee of Evanescence, check out the full conversation above.