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.

It’s a pleasure to say sawadika to LISA again at Hard Rock Hotel New York, as the singer and actress joins us for an Audacy Check In to preview her upcoming EP, 'PRESS PLAY.'

In a booked and busy 2026, LISA still has more to share with fans, both on the screen and with new music. “I feel like every single song, they have their own character, their own story,” she says of her EP due out on October 23. “So it's like a movie. So you just press play.”

'PRESS PLAY' is infused with LISA’s Thai heritage, evident in the lead single, “SaWaDiKa,” which has fans greeting her in Thai. “After this, single came out, when I walk around, they're just like, ‘hello sawadika LISA,’ and I'm like, ‘oh my God, that's so sweet.’”

LISA also stays steady building her acting resume, after making her debut in 'The White Lotus,' she has a few more projects in the pipeline with Netflix.

“It's a little different, I think, but acting is still new to me,” she reveals. “I learn every day on set. But performing is just like, I know what I'm good at, so it's more comfortable to be honest.”

For more from LISA, check out the full conversation above. 'PRESS PLAY' is our everywhere on October 23.

With just a few weeks to go before KATSEYE takes the stage again in the US, the group is celebrating a recent number one with their EP, 'WILD,' and standing confident in their established style. Last month as the new project arrived, Yoonchae, Lara, and Daniela joined us for an Audacy Check In.

“I think ‘WILD’ is just a big sister of ‘BEAUTIFUL CHAOS.’ It feels like ‘WILD’ is the final destination of the ‘BEAUTIFUL CHAOS’ era, if that makes sense,” shares Lara. “It's us taking it further and being like, ‘OK we're gonna really go for it, do songs that are all completely different to one another,’ like each song is really unique, but then still is cohesive and still fits within the same world. Yeah, it's just us kind of full sending it.”

While still expanding their sound, KATSEYE have managed to establish an identity that sets them apart. “Honestly, I feel like we have grown so much as artists,” Daniela admits. “I think especially as a group, and individually as well, but I mean we're still experimenting and figuring out our sound and trying new things. We're still gonna keep evolving, like it's always gonna keep growing.”

'WILD' finds a way to mix it all together, from the Dance Pop of “PINKY UP” to the Latin flavor of “Hootie Frutti,” and the Ed Sheeran penned hit, “Animal,” KATSEYE are always evolving, even track-to-track sometimes. "I felt like the thing that excited me the most probably was like, ‘OK we can show our vocals on this,” Lara says of “Animal.”

“I was like, ‘I feel like this has a bit more like edge and soul.’"

The next step for KATSEYE is to bring their evolution directly to the fans, with tour dates in the US kicking off in October. “We're so excited for this tour,” says Yoonchae, “we have so much bigger stage now, so maybe we can show more creative elements and a lot more production.”

“Expect a lot of things you haven't seen yet,” teases Lara. “I think everyone's gonna shine in a new way on this tour.”

For more from KATSEYE, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

There’s no slowing down for Alex Warren. Between headlining tours and supporting his 2025 chart-topping album, the “Ordinary” singer somehow found space to create his latest project, 'WILDCHILD,' which is now available everywhere.

Warren recently joined us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk with Mike Adam about the making of 'WILDCHILD,' his relationship with his “heroes” from the album’s rollout campaign, and a look back at his massive, historic hit.

Before diving into his latest project, Warren looked back on a few of his favorite “Ordinary” covers, and shares that despite fears of the song outgrowing itself, he’s happy with the way it’s been able to soundtrack so many moments for people around the world. “Regardless of how big a record got, you know, it was played at funerals, it was played at weddings, so many things,” recalls Alex. “I think that those permanent moments in people's lives have benefited from that song.”

As for covers, there’s a few from 'America’s Got Talent' that have blown him away, but he’d still love to see Gracie Abrams take his track, “First Time On Earth,” for a spin. “I think that song would really compliment her voice.”

'WILDCHILD' is another offering from Alex, after serving up a 21 track debut in 2025, composed between tour dates during his meteoric rise. “We were doing the album, on my off time in between tours,” he reveals. “So I had about 2 or 3 months in-between tours, and we started working on the album then, and then I started going on tour every March, and whenever I'd have off time or whenever I had days off, they'd fly out and finish the album, and we've been working on this album now for about 1 year, 1 and a half years, so it's been really cool to kind of like, perfect this a little bit.”

In the lead-up to 'WILDCHILD,' Warren enlisted celebrities like Kevin James and Jennifer Aniston to help introduce fans to the project. “I write the scripts a lot of times,” says Alex. “I just had fun with it.”

“Are these people in your phone now?” asked Mike, wondering how you start a text to Jennifer Aniston. “I text Kevin the most, I think. I text all of them. Jen's a sweetheart. Jen does these things every Sunday that's really fun. I've yet to go, but I hear they're fun.”

'WILDCHILD' is a good look at Warren as an artist, after watching him starting to put it together for his debut. “These are songs that are about me. You've known me for this amount of time now,” he says. “It feels like a debut album because it feels like this is me as a musician. This is me as an artist. That was me becoming one.”

For more from Alex Warren, check out the full Audacy Check In above. 'WILDCHILD' is now available everywhere.