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.