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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Rock trio Dirty Honey is back with new music, igniting the road to their next album with two new songs, “Lights Out” and “Butterfly.” Singer Marc LaBelle recently joined Abe Kanan for an Audacy Check In to talk about the latest from the band, and preview their upcoming album, 'Catch My Butterfly,' out everywhere on January 15.

The music video for "Lights Out" was filmed on a downtown Los Angeles rooftop during a scorching 103°F heatwave. Mark recalls moving amps in the sweltering heat, describing it as "literal hell on earth" before the sun went down.

Along with “Butterfly,” “Lights Out” is the first sample of Dirty Honey’s upcoming album, 'Catch My Butterfly,' their first since 2023. “We're super proud of them,” shares Marc, “and excited to finally get to share them with the world because, it's been far too long that we've been away.”

Dirty Honey has been a leader in the Rock resurgence, as more bands pick up the guitar and return to the roots of it all. “It's probably ramping back up again,” says LaBelle. “I'm just seeing on social media a lot, there's so many people playing guitar, it feels like, and yeah just even ‘Lights Out,’ the amount of people that sent me them playing the riff, or like the solo to ‘Lights Out,’ I mean, literally dozens.”

“It just feels like so much more, like 5 or 10x what it was, Which is so cool.”

To hear more from Marc LaBelle of Dirty Honey, check out the full conversation above. 'Catch My Butterfly' is out everywhere on January 15.

Carly Rae Jepsen has always been ambitious, but creating a double album through pregnancy and motherhood is next level. The singer recently joined us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk about the making of her new project, 'Day and Night,' and opened up about navigating new motherhood while creating the double album and the journey of documenting her pregnancy through the process.

“It feels like nothing was planned, and yet everything took some great deal of thought,” admits Jepsen. “Having a child is such a miracle and an amazing thing, and we were definitely hoping that we would get to have that experience. Once my pregnancy was sort of a real thing and we were digesting that, it sort of just happened that I was finishing this double album.”

“You don't know when that's gonna happen and so for us we're like, ‘OK, how do we make sense of this now,’ and of course that took form in real time where all of a sudden I was 4 months pregnant when it became time to shoot the album artwork and we're like, ’OK, are we hiding the belly? Are we keeping the belly?’ It was a bit of a choice just like embrace this is what's happening, let's do it.”

It was Carly Rae’s attraction to two different “flavors,” that ultimately called for the double album, oscillating between acoustic folk pop and dancefloor bangers “to make everyone sweat and dance and go home with some glitter on their body.”

“I knew that I wanted to make something true,” she says. “To my shock and delight, I realized I wanted to do both things at once and so that's sort of how ‘Day and Night’ was born.”

To hear much more about Carly Rae Jepsen’s journey and her new album, check out the full conversation above. Day and Night is now available everywhere.