Kevin Ryder on KROQ

Metric is right where they want to be. The band is back with the new single, "Victim Of Luck," a new album set to arrive in April, and a tour with a few of their favorite friends in music.

Emily Haines stopped by the KROQ studios in Los Angeles this week to introduce the latest from the band, and offer a preview of 'Romanticize The Dive,' which is available everywhere on April 24. "It's really like a statement of the album and kind of where we're at, and what we're doing in this world and what we're trying to contribute," shares Haines.

"This is the spirit of who we are and the kind of music we make. This is who we wanted to be and Los Angeles has supported us from the beginning."

For more from Emily and Metric, check out the full conversation above. 'Romanticize The Dive' is out April 24.

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.