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Cannons are able to commit like never before. With a newfound level of success, the band created their latest album, 'Everything Glows,' out March 27, with the band finally being their full-time job. "We're super excited to share 'Everything Glows' with everyone," Michelle Joy tells Kevin Ryder and Megan Holiday during a visit to KROQ in Los Angeles. "We've been working on it really hard over the past year." "It's the first album that we were able to focus on because we don't have full-time jobs other than Cannons now, and we didn't tour for the past year. So we were able to just get in the studio every day and make music and have a good time together and learn new ways of writing together and enjoy the experience." The new chapter for the band kicks off with their single, "Starlight," which Joy says is about "finding light in the dark." For more on what the band did before finding success, and how a Craigslist ad started it all, check out the full conversation above.

What started as a 6 night residency at Las Vegas' instantly iconic venue, The Sphere, has quickly transformed into 18 nights of No Doubt, back for a career-spanning, nostalgia-filled show you won't want to miss in 2026. Gwen Stefani recently stopped by our studio in Los Angeles to talk about her gratitude for the upcoming residency, her new Christmas song, and more with Kevin Ryder. "Just when you think you can't, you know, the snow globe has settled and there's no more sparkle, they're like, 'hey, you wanna write a song for a Christmas movie?' I'm like, 'yeah,' and then they're like, 'hey, you wanna play at The Sphere?' These things just come out of nowhere and I think that's my favorite is when you don't know what's gonna happen," shares Stefani. "All of a sudden you just feel alive again. You feel like you have a purpose and you feel like you want to use that gift that you have and share it, and you just never know when it's gonna end so... It gets more intense. You get more nervous. You get more grateful, and yeah, here we are." As the No Doubt team starts to build a show for The Sphere, Gwen looked back on when the band first reunited for Coachella and the path that led to this residency. "I think 2 years ago when we finally, you know, got on the same page, me and the boys to actually even be in a room together and hang out and it's not like anything bad had happened, it's just sort of like we grew and everybody had families, everybody had their own projects," remembers Stefani. "We grew apart and it's weird because you would think back to the childhood part of us and think that could never even happen because we were just so entwined, but then time goes so fast when time is in the future and next thing you know, we decided to do Coachella." "I think we were wanting to do something else together but everything felt like a want want, compared to that, it needed to be comparable or why do it, especially creatively," she adds. "So anyways, The Sphere came out of nowhere." To hear more about the upcoming run of shows for No Doubt at The Sphere and her new Christmas song, check out the full interview above.

As Alkaline Trio preps to head out on the road with blink-182, Matt Skiba has a great analogy for his time in both bands. The longtime co-lead of the Chicago group stepped in for Tom DeLonge during his time away from blink, and now with Mark, Tom, and Travis together again, Skiba will open the show with Alkaline Trio. "I feel like I walked into a family, like I'm the new, maybe mistress or the new wife, that luckily the kids all approved of," Skiba says of his role with blink for nearly 7 years. "And Alkaline Trio is the successful marriage that I went off and cheated, and came back and they were still on the couch reading US Weekly." Alkaline Trio is once again rolling out new music, this time with the help of Travis Barker as executive producer on the new tracks, including the lead single, "Oblivion." "They turned out great," says Dan Andriano of the 3 songs they created with Barker. "It was so easy, and Travis in the studio was great, like the energy was very natural and everything flowed, and when we left, we were like, 'that was easy.'" Everything in the life of Travis Barker seems "effortless," as Matt says. "The things that he's survived, he's done with such grace and I think he makes even difficult things look easy." To hear more from Alkaline Trio on their new song "Oblivion" and their upcoming tour with blink-182, check out the full interview with Kevin Ryder above.

Theo Ellis and Ellie Rowsell from Wolf Alice stopped by the KROQ Studios to chat with Kevin Ryder about their new album 'The Clearing' due out August 22nd.

Amy Lee of Evanescence stopped by the KROQ studios to talk with Kevin Ryder and Megan Holiday about "Fight Like A Girl" with K.Flay from the 'Ballerina' soundtrack, how she became a singer, what's next for Evanescence, and more!

Kevin Ryder chats with Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman about Yaamava's 'Holy Grail of Comics: Action Comic #1' giveaway plus their upcoming live taping of their 'Hollywood Babble-On' podcast at Yaamava!

Good Charlotte stopped by the KROQ Studios to chat with Kevin Ryder and Megan Holiday about their new song and forthcoming album!

Jakob Nowell and Eric Wilson from Sublime stop by KROQ to chat with Kevin Ryder and Megan Holiday about new music, being added to Warped Tour, and more!

Gavin Rossdale stopped by the KROQ Studios to chat with Kevin Ryder and Megan Holiday about his new cooking show, Bush's latest song "The Land of Milk and Honey," and their forthcoming album 'I Beat Loneliness.'

Kevin Ryder chats with Slightly Stoopid before their performance in the KROQ Helpful Honda Sound Space on May 14, 2025.

Kevin chats with ROLE MODEL about his song "Sally, When The Wine Runs Out" during his visit to the KROQ studios.

French duo Justice stops by the KROQ studios to chat with Kevin Ryder about their song "Neverender" featuring Tame Impala, collaborating with The Weeknd, and more!

Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong from Linkin Park stopped by the studios to surprise Kevin Ryder and welcome him back to KROQ.

Variety's Michael Schneider joins Kevin Ryder in-studio during his surprise first day back at KROQ on April 1st as the two discuss Kevin's return to station after previously co-hosting The Kevin & Bean Show for 30 years.

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