'The Residency' is a new live album from Sammy Hagar and The Best of All Worlds Band, celebrating their Dolby Live at Park MGM run in Las Vegas earlier this year. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, The Red Rocker recently joined Remy Maxwell for an Audacy Check In to talk about the new release, recent projects with Nickelback, the status of his relationship with David Lee Roth, and more.

Featuring Michael Anthony (bass, vocals), Joe Satriani (guitar), Kenny Aronoff (drums), and Rai Thistlethwayte (keyboards, guitar, vocals), the album captures Sammy's 2025 stretch with an electric live album, touring through a lifetime of hits from Hagar.

"I'm in love with this record," shares Sammy. "I've got 3 live records in my life that I'm in love with. Number one, J. Geils' 'Full House.' Humble Pie live at 'The Fillmore,' and 'Frampton Comes Alive.' Those records, when you sit down and crank them up, which I still do today, they make you feel like you're there. And this record, 'The Residency,' makes you, makes me, makes anyone feel like you're there. And so, mission accomplished, otherwise I wouldn't make it."

Sammy will return to Dolby Live in 2026 for new performances of The Best of All Worlds residency, March 11–21 and September 18–26, 2026. Tickets are available at RedRocker.com.

We also had to ask Hagar about the current status of his relationship with David Lee Roth, as DLR recently shared some kind words towards Sammy on stage, and Hagar has since said he'd be up for "hanging out" with Roth. "Assuming David would behave himself, yeah, we could," says Sammy. "It's not like it's my wish list or my bucket list. It's just that Dave is, he's so unique and to me he's so over-the-top entertainer, you know. I'd like to hang with them under the circumstances where we've let all this crap go because I've certainly let it go."

"Anybody that wants to compare us today is crazy," he adds. "If you want to compare our old stuff, well you're just as crazy because it's both great, and we did both did the best we could at the time. And now we're doing what we're doing. So let all that go and not try to be competitive with Dave and I'm sure he'd be a fun hanging for a while. I mean, I'm sure it'll come a time ago, 'what you wanna what? You were thinking, what?' But, yeah, I'm serious about it."

"When he said those things about me, about being a great singer and things like that, and has a great catalog, I'm going, 'see, he's now getting past it too,' because he's never ever complimented me on anything that I know of anyway. I thought that's very nice. So if you're going to be nice, if you want to be nice, then I can be nice. I don't wanna dig any ditches again. I just don't, would never want to dig any holes and go down that. It's just so stupid."

To hear more from Sammy Hagar about 'The Residency,' his work with Nickelback, and much more check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Let 'em know, BIA is the building at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, and "WE ON GO" with the rapper for an Audacy Check In to talk about her official debut album, 'BIANCA,' and more.

The Massachusetts-born MC has been in the game for nearly a decade, dropping fire features and breaking through on songs like "WHOLE LOTTA MONEY," and her latest inescapable anthemic track, "WE ON GO." Now she's out with her official debut album, 'BIANCA,' which is now available everywhere.

After talking about the her come up from Boston and her first time putting pen to paper as a rapper, BIA told DJ Buck and Regg about the making of 'BIANCA,' and her goals with the project. "I wanted to come different but a lot more intentional," she shares. "I had success with songs that were like fun songs, and like upbeat, you know, like braggadocios songs but not songs that were internally carrying a message. I felt like I was seeing where my songs would land in the world and what it does to the world and community. I wanted to have a bigger presence in community and I wanted to have like more well-rounded songs that could play in any area, any space."

"I think I've been able with this project to find a way to to be both, like the vulnerable side of me as I'm growing into more of a woman and just like finding my way through life is softer. I'm more of a softer woman, but then still like that same rapper that people know and love me for. The duality between both of those people on one project."

"I think this album is my most vulnerable album, my most intentional," she adds. "Even me starting this album off with the track 'October.' It's so outside of my range. I didn't want people to be able to guess what the next song was gonna be. 'October' is so different from anything else I've ever sung before in my life, so I just wanted to really show my range and show people like, this is soft, this is vulnerable, but also like, watch that ass."

To hear more about the making of 'BIANCA,' BIA's inspirations, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Louis Tomlinson is ready to release the record he always "deserved to make," but first he joins us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In to talk about the lead single, "Lemonade," and more.

'How Did I Get Here?' is due out everywhere on January 23, 2026, and Tomlinson is bursting with pride about the process and the way he pushed himself to create this time around. "I wanted to write and record somewhere tropical, somewhere visually very different from home and somewhere quite literally far away from home," Louis shares. "So we decided to do Costa Rica in a lovely little town called Santa Teresa, and it's absolutely beautiful."

"Songs like 'Lemonade,' I don't think would have happened in England. There was just something magical about the place that we were in, the tempo, the way of living, the freedom, all of that. So I think that it's a byproduct of the beautiful, beautiful environment that we're in."

It all starts with a sonically shimmering and swaggering lead single, "Lemonade," which announces a new beginning for Tomlinson and willingness to be big, fun, and fearless.

"It's something I've been trying to challenge myself to more, you know, it's kind of infinite, the deep dive of being creative," reveals Louis. "With this record, I wanted it to be really ambitious and I wanted to try and step it up a level, creatively. You've gotta kind of push yourself to do those things."

"I mean, you know, I'm saying push yourself creatively while being in paradise in Costa Rica. It wasn't all that bad, you know."

Before the new release arrives in 2026, fans around the globe are still celebrating the 15th anniversary of One Direction forming. Nearly a year after the passing of Liam Payne, the group has stayed mostly silent on the milestone, but Tomlinson did take some time to look back on 1D during his time at the Hard Rock Hotel.

When asked about the One Direction song that he didn't necessarily like when it was dropped, but now he looks back on with fond memories, Louis was quick to keep it real.

"I still don't like the lead single, 'What Makes You Beautiful,' honestly," he shares. "I think actually the first couple of records, the first couple of albums at the time, I wasn't in love with them but now when I listen back, there's definitely a lot of nostalgia there. But 'What Makes You Beautiful,' I don't think I'll ever get around to that, to be honest."

Louis also admits that "there's loads" of unreleased One Direction songs. "There's a couple that got leaked over the years," he says, although you likely will never hear the rest. "I'm kind of a little bit funny about that, especially when they leak and stuff, cause it's often a reason they've not made the record. That's often been like a creative choice. The songs were probably not good enough to make the record at the time, you know, probably still good songs, but there's probably close to like, I don't know, 50, 60 songs like that."

To hear more from Louis Tomlinson about his recording process, the joy of house plants, and Halloween plans, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Even on her 12th time around, every release remains different for Taylor Swift. The GRAMMY-winning, actively iconic artist took time out of 'The Life of a Showgirl' premiere weekend to talk with Bru about release rituals, the making of the album, and more during a very special Audacy Check In.

"I do it differently every single time. Honestly, based on how an album feels," reveals Taylor about her album release rituals. "I'll make it, you know, a year ahead of time or something, right? I always really try to put a lot of effort and intention into the planning of how to release it and trying to make it as fun for my fans as possible. So I want to like make vinyl for them, I want to make a music video, I want to create a situation like with this one where we have these release parties in the movie theater, so they can go and they can get kind of a peek behind the curtain of how I made the music video, get to see the music video on a big screen, so that stuff takes time."

"When you make the album ahead of time, it can oftentimes be like a year before you put the album out. This time everything feels like it completely lines up with how my life feels."

"But with an album, like with 'Torture Poets Department,' my ritual was like I went away on vacation with my boyfriend and my friends, boyfriend then fiancé now, and friends," she clarifies, "and put my phone in a drawer and was just like, 'I'm putting this album out into the world, but it doesn't match with how my life feels now.' So that felt right at this time. With this one I'm just like so happy that it's out, so proud, so excited to hear people's favorite songs, it just feels very different. It feels like a really joyful, fun, hilarious experience."

After just a few days, fans are already picking favorites and investigating themes and storylines from within the words of 'The Life of a Showgirl.' When asked, Taylor currently is interested in the takes on "Father Figure," as listeners relate differently depending on their standpoint. She also says she's currently most proud of her lyrics on "Wi$h Li$t."

"Oh my God, oh my God, there's so many," Swift shares when first asked. "I'd say 'Wi$h Li$t' was a song that was really, really fun to write just in terms of, it's a song that kind of chronicles all these different wishes that different people have for what they want in their life, their aspirations, what they want to buy, where they want to go, how they want their life to look. So I kind of was able to write all these descriptions of different lives that people want, and that was really fun to do, and then culminating in the chorus where in the course I talk about what I want, and I think that, right now, that's kind of one that I'm like, 'I'm pretty proud of that one.'"

Offering a glimpse into the making of 'The Life of a Showgirl,' Taylor says that she would often scroll through her notes app for inspiration. "When we're working on an idea and, you know, Shellback will be playing guitar and I'll be sitting at piano, or we'll just be kind of riffing off of an idea melodically, I'll go scrolling through these ideas that I have and it'll be like a theme that I like, or a word that I've always thought sounded really exquisite, and that's what's so fun. Cause, you know, in the middle of the night, you could wake up and have an idea that you swear you will remember it in the morning. You absolutely will not. If you do not write it down, it's just gone."

"I've learned over the years that if I have any kind of semblance of a thought that I think might be like clever, interesting, funny, whatever, I have to write it down."

To hear more from Taylor Swift about her favorite Swiftie inside jokes, how she kept the continuity of 'The Life of a Showgirl' while on 'The Eras Tour,' and so much more, listen to the full Audacy Check In with Bru above.

Sarah McLachlan is back with her first album in nearly a decade, and plans to celebrate with fans across the country on her 'Better Broken Tour' beginning in November. The GRAMMY-winning singer recently sat down with us at the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In, to talk about her latest project, 'Better Broken,' the new Lilith Fair documentary, and much more.

The new album from Sarah all started with the song, "Rise," which McLachlan penned coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. "I just felt like I need to get this song out," she tells Audacy's Race Taylor. "It was kind of this hopeful lament about the world that we're entering into and this idea that we are creating all these divisions, and people are so scared and angry, and I have this sort of hopeful utopian version that if we just figure out how to get along and recognize that we need each other, maybe we'll start making better choices. Clearly that hasn't happened so far."

"Then it was like, 'OK, I've got enough material, let's get in the studio and start recording,' and that's kind of what happened and here we are, finally a new record."

The new collection of songs is another batch of raw and honest anthems from McLachlan, with 'Better Broken' marking her first new album since 2016's holiday release, 'Wonderland.'

"When you think about what 'Better Broken' means, it's kind of about the resilience that we have to have as individuals to manage the world," admits Sarah. "We constantly, we get hurt, we fall down, we have to pick ourselves up and pick up the pieces and rebuild ourselves, which we've done numerous times by the time we get to 57."

McLachlan's 57th year has been a big one even beyond the new album and upcoming tour. Hulu also recently released, 'Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery - The Untold Story,' which shares behind-the-scenes views of the landmark festival that McLachlan founded.

"To have this time capsule of 3 of the most important years of my life and my career, so succinctly put together in this beautiful piece, what a gift for me," shares Sarah. "I just felt this immense pride and joy of getting to have this thing that I now get to carry with me, and also for the world to see this and for young women and young men to see it's like this. We can do things a different way. We can do things a better way if we work together and communicate with each other and lift each other up instead of tear each other down."

Looking back on Lilith Fair, McLachlan says, "It was a lot of fun and honestly it was just such a simple concept at the beginning. I didn't want to have all the responsibility of a show on my shoulders, but I thought, 'well let's just get some other women.' There's so many amazing women coming up, getting a ton of radio play, having success, and the few festivals that were out there that they were completely male dominated, and I said 'well let's just do something ourselves.' And then we were told we couldn't. And that was certainly, you know, it's like, don't tell me I can't do something, like come on, I'm definitely going to prove you wrong."

To hear much more from Sarah McLachlan about her collaborations, the Lilith Fair, and her new album, 'Better Broken,' check out the full conversation above.

Before taking the stage at Madison Square Garden, Cil stopped by the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In, chatting with Mike Adam about new music, including the new single "something like this," and her experience opening for Dua Lipa and Stevie Nicks.

In town for an opening spot on Dua's tour, Cil was quick to praise the singer for her talent and dedication. "She really is dedicated to her craft and she's dedicated to really putting on an amazing show," shares Cil, who also shares an Albanian heritage with the "Levitating" singer.

"When I was really able to watch her and have the full experience was in Kosovo, and she just inspired me so much. I had like my set, I had my whole show planned out and everything. I was like fully ready, and I changed it all up before the tour cause I was like, 'I want to show up,' the way that she shows up. I'm learning so much and just watching her, just being in the proximity. She's a force."

This tour with Dua Lipa is just the latest big stage for Cil, who previous opened for Stevie Nicks. "Stevie was my first introduction to doing arenas and so there was a huge learning curve for me with that," Cil reveals. "But with Dua, I get the opportunity to focus on my show, focus on my performance, not just focusing on like, 'oh my gosh, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, don't be nervous,' you know, 'how do I make my way around backstage of an arena?'"

"Stevie, I'm forever grateful for because she took a chance on me," she adds. "Stevie is somebody who, she loves music. She loves good music, she loves talent, and she really gets it."

To hear more from Cil on her influences, tattoos, and the new track "something like this," check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Jermaine Dupri is in the building this week at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, joining us for an Audacy Check In to talk about his new album, 'Magic City,' his docuseries of the same name, and what's next for the ATL multihyphenate producer.

The Atlanta institution known as Magic City is taking its turn on the stage, first with a five part docuseries on Starz, and now with album of music inspired by the project, now available everywhere. At the helm for all of it is Jermaine Dupri, who is once again bringing his So So Def empire into another era of excellence.

"To start in '92 and then be named the number one producer of Hip-Hop R&B of the 21st century in 2025, that's all the energy I need," Dupri reveals to DJ Buck and Big Regg, referencing the honor recently given to him by 'Billboard.' "I know what my work has done. It got me to that spot, so it's like I can't even think about stopping at this point."

Not stopping for JD includes 'Magic City,' the soundtrack to the docuseries he recently produced for Starz. The project features the producer in top-form with a roster of ATL's finest. "We have a city with a pool of artists that sometimes we overlook. We only talk about 3 or 4 of these people, but we have like 20, 30, 40 artists in Atlanta that really have made a real contribution to Hip-Hop," says Dupri. "It felt like we just ignore that, right? And I feel like if I ignore that, they're gonna ignore me, you know what I mean? You gotta lead by example."

The features on 'Magic City' stretch across decades of Atlanta influence from Pastor Troy to Quavo to YFN Lucci, and everyone in-between. Even Ludacris has bars the new project, who Jermaine Dupri considers the one that got away from his So So Def family.

"One day I went in the office and felt like I wasn't giving people that I had hired an opportunity to work," shares Dupri. "I was making all the decisions. I was choosing the artists. I was picking the singles. I'm doing everything, but as a CEO is supposed to do. But I also was looking at Def Jam and I'm watching all these other labels. They had A&R meetings and they had people that was the A&Rs and they was letting them really become stars, right?"

"One day on my way to the office, I was just like, 'you know, today I'm gonna have an A&R meeting and I'm gonna let these guys tell me what we should do,' And I went in there and I said, 'I wanna sign Ludacris,' and everybody in the meeting was like, 'no, no, no, no, no, no.' And I was like, 'what?' And it's like, 'nah, JD, he seem like he gonna, I don't know about that, that don't seem like that's gonna last long.'"

"I was like, 'alright, I'm gonna listen to y'all guys,' and that was the last time I listened."

For more on the making of 'Magic City,' why JD views music as therapy, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In with Jermaine Dupri above.

Mudvayne is ready to unleash a celebration of their breakthrough album, 'L.D. 50,' by touring across the country beginning this week. But first, Chad Gray Checks In with us to talk about the major milestone, the band's first new music in 16 years, and more.

In addition to a quarter-century of punishing grooves on 'L.D. 50,' Mudvayne recently unwrapped the first new music from the band in 16 years. "This was the reason why I came back to Mudvayne, was to continue the legacy," admits Gray. "We went away before people were ready for us to go away, I think. So when we came back, that was my biggest reason for coming back, was to pick up where we left off and continue to create music, and give our fans what they need, what we didn't give them."

"We tried this a couple years ago and it just didn't work. Then we got back in and we got back to it, and we went back and picked through some of those old parts and we're able to put these tracks together, and then, we went in the process of recording," adds Chad. "It was really cool, but it's a very necessary time. I think we came back and the ground was seriously rumbling. Like the ground was shaking. It was like, 'holy hell,' people are really excited about this."

After their return a few years ago, Gray and Mudvayne knew it was time to take the next step and get back into the studio to build on what they've already created. "I wanna keep people excited about this. I don't just wanna come back, blow our wad and then just f***ing slowly drift off, you know what I mean? Like, no. I wanna come in with a bang, I wanna go out with a bang."

In addition to their debut, 'L.D. 50,' sending shockwaves through the world of Rock, another reason for Mudvayne's success has to be their spotlight on Ozzy Osbourne's traveling Ozzfest. "His contribution to music we could never pay back," Gray says of Ozzy and his summer spectacle.

"Just the inspirations he created from what he did is unprecedented, and then you gotta think about, he broke Metallica. Straight up. He took them on the road with him. He put Metallica on an Ozzy-sized stage on 'Master Of Puppets' and dude, from that moment on it was game over, right?"

"So what does he do? He continues, now he creates a festival where it's not just one band or two bands that he can help, now it's a gaggle of bands every single year," he says of Ozzfest. "We were on that 2nd stage. System of a Down was on the 2nd stage. Slipknot was on the 2nd stage. I mean, just go down the list."

Hear more from Chad on his past projects, what to expect on Mudvayne's anniversary tour, and more during our Audacy Check In above.