In the world of Black Label Society, Zakk Wylde is working "smarter, not harder," as the band is ready to release their new album, 'Engines of Demolition,' on March 27.

During an Audacy Check In with Abe Kanan, the always hilarious Wylde joked about the new project, saying, "It's really no big deal. People are like, 'well, Zakk, what makes it so special compared to all the other records?' I go, 'well, first off, of all the Black Label albums, this is the new one.' Second off, they're like, 'well, the songs all sound the same.' I go, 'I know, because that's all we do is just put different song titles and lyrics to these things and just put them out there.' I mean, you gotta think smarter, not harder."

In all seriousness though, what little there is with Wylde, there is a song on the upcoming album called, "Ozzy Song," that looks back on his friendship playing with Ozzy Osbourne, and the feelings surrounding his funeral. "It's about the greatest that ever was and the greatest that it'll ever be," shares Zakk. Thinking the two would record again and play together again after the success of Back To The Beginning, Wylde was ready for what's next with Ozzy. Sadly though, he never got the chance.

"After we went over there and laid him to rest, you know, being a pallbearer and our oldest son, who's Ozzy's godson, we were pallbearers carrying Oz to his final resting place. After that, when we got home, we did finish up the Pantera celebration run. I got home, sat in the library, looked at one of his books, and I just wrote the lyrics. I put the music on and I said it."

"I just wrote the lyrics right there for Ozzy, and my wife just kept referring to it as 'Ozzy's Song.' They put on 'Ozzy Song' when we were in the truck listening to it when we'd be going somewhere. So, I just said, 'I'm just gonna name it 'Ozzy Song,' cause that's what it is.' If somebody asked me, 'Zakk, did you write that song for Ozzy?' It's like, 'yeah,' so I'll just call it 'Ozzy Song.' So there you go."

To hear more about celebrating Ozzy Osbourne, his time touring in Pantera, and the new album, 'Engines of Demolition,' check out the full Audacy Check In above.

A "real and raw" new album from Bebe Rexha is incoming, but the first sample has already arrived. Last week the GRAMMY-nominated singer blast back into our world with the pulsating and vulnerable new, "I Like You Better Than Me," and now she's ready to talk about what's next.

Inside the Rockstar Suite at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Rexha lets us inside the making of her album, 'Dirty Blonde,' out everywhere on June 12, telling Mike Adam how her latest chapter came together.

Rexha took some risks on her fourth full length project, featuring "a little bit of the old Bebe, new Bebe," blending Country, Pop, Dance, and live guitars into something uniquely her. “That's been really fun to me, kind of genre bending a little bit," she shares.

Feeling the full range of everything, Bebe explains, "like crying in the bedroom to crying on the dance floor... there's some songs like that, and then there's some songs that are like, 'I'm the s***.'"

"When I started the project, I started it being more of a dance album and then I kind of hit a wall because I was like, 'I don't know if I could do 13 songs.' I have so much I want to say," she shares. "I feel like I'm just like dying to get this part of me out that feels like it's hidden by a wall, and then we were able to write songs like 'I Like You Better Than Me,' or 'Time,' which is really meaningful to me, or 'The Way I Want You,' that talk about so many different things that are really vulnerable for me."

"Whether it's unrequited love or my insecurities or feeling like I wasted the best years of my life in the wrong relationships, so many different topics that speak to me, but then there's also the songs that are towards the end, I think that's when I was starting to feel myself because I had kind of work through all of that."

For more on the making of 'Dirty Blonde,' navigating mental health, songwriting, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

It's time to get in the ring once again with Slash of Guns N' Roses, as the band preps for another World Tour, this time with new music, and hopes for a full project in the studio. The guitar god recently joined Abe Kanan for an Audacy Check In, where he talked about the upcoming trek, and the possibility of a new Guns N' Roses album coming together.

Late last year, Guns N' Roses debuted a pair of new songs, "Nothin'" and "Atlas," right on the heels of sharing the itinerary for a World Tour. Now armed with their first new tracks since 2023, this March the band is back on the road as fans anxiously await to hears what's next.

"We've already written a ton of s***, so we just have to get together and actually get into the process of going through all the material and figuring out what the songs are gonna be and recording them and all that kind of s***," shares Slash on the prospect of a new album. "That's something that's pending, is probably going to happen sooner than later, because we've gotten all this other stuff out and we've been touring for pretty much the better part of the decade."

"We've been wanting to do this. It's just a matter of buckling down," he adds. "Anyway, but it's coming."

Unbelievably the reunited Guns N' Roses have almost been back together as long as they were together for their first record-breaking run. "I can't believe it's been 10 years since that April Fool's gig that we did at the Troubadour. It's unbelievable to me. It went by so quick."

"I really joined up with Guns in 1985 and I left in 1996, so it's one year short of as long as I've ever been in the band."

What was going to be a few warm-up shows and then a set at Coachella, has turned into another decade of Rock for GN'R, still as ferocious as always with marathon sets lasting long into the night. "The way that we do it is we have just a lot of material, so we put together a set list of all the possible songs that we want to do, and then we have another setlist of songs that we'd like to do that's called the 'alternative set,' and we mix pulling from both."

"We end up playing for 3+ hours just because we are enjoying playing all this material. It's not designed, we didn't set out to go, 'OK, we're going to do 3, 3.5 hour sets.' They just sort of evolved that way, and it's been happening even in the nineties, we used to do that. But it's where we feel comfortable, we want to play this, we want to play this, and we want to play that, and we just keep doing that until all of a sudden it's like, 'OK, we should do 'Paradise City' now and get the f*** out of here."

Don't miss our full Audacy Check In with Slash from Guns N' Roses above.