Sammy Hagar is getting by with some help from his friends, both on stage and in his dreams. The Red Rocker joins us for an Audacy Check In to talk about his new song, "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight." which he says was inspired by a dream about Eddie Van Halen.

"When I woke up from this dream with Eddie, we were in the middle of writing a song and I was singing this melody, so it was so fresh," Sammy shares with Audacy's Remy Maxwell. "And I'm going, 'man!' I woke up, I sang that into my iPhone. My wife's sitting there pulling covers over her head. I got my guitar out, I got my notepad. [It's] one of them things where nobody wants to hear about dreams. You wake up and say, 'honey, I had this weird dream.' You dream and you start trying to tell her, she goes, 'I don't wanna hear about your dream right now. It's too f***ing crazy. It doesn't make any sense.' I'm going, 'yeah, I know.' So nobody wants to hear about your dreams. So I was reluctant."

Hagar finally found the nerve and said, "f*** it, I'm gonna play this for Joe."

Guitarist Joe Satriani and Hagar had just toured together, playing Van Halen classics across 34 cities. "He studied Eddie inside and out, he said, 'hey, I got this, man.'"

Performing with VH alum Michael Anthony, Satriani, and legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff, Hagar is newly signed to Big Machine Rock and ready to reveal the track to fans. "It's just such a heartfelt thing from me to him," admits Sammy. "I just wrote exactly what I dreamt and exactly what I felt and, that's so personal. It's one of the most personal songs I've ever written in my life.”

"I'm humbled by this band and being in Van Halen, I wasn't humbled at that time, you know, I was a platinum solo artist selling out arenas all over the world. So I wasn't as humbled joining Van Halen as I, looking back, as I could have been. But now I'm humbled by it because Eddie Van Halen's one of the greatest rock musicians that ever lived," says Sammy. "I'm more impressed with this guy every day in my life, and I will always be inspired by his musical abilities and his musical uniqueness."

"I tell you, the better I get and the more knowledge I get at my craft, I always go back to Eddie and go, 'wow.' He was already there. Every time I come to a new conclusion, a new height, I go, 'oh wow, Eddie knew this,' and it's amazing how great that guy. and unique that guy really was."

To hear much more from Sammy Hagar on his upcoming Stagecoach performance and Vegas residency, check out the full Audacy Check In above.

Halestorm has shared the first preview of their upcoming, sixth studio album with the big and bold single, "Darkness Always Wins," and frontwoman Lzzy Hale is here to talk about the making of the band's next chapter, and more.

During an Audacy Check In with Abe Kanan, the "Back From The Dead" singer details the recording process of the new LP, which serves as a return to the roots of the Pennsylvania band. "This whole album, it's kind of like this long road back to the beginning almost," Hale reveals. "When we were recording it with Dave Cobb in Savannah, Georgia, it felt like we were back in my parents basement. We were in this house, unsupervised, just the four of us with all the equipment we could ever want, everything ready to go, no distractions, no girlfriends, no wives, no friends."

"We'd wake up in this house like around 11AM every day, and just start on whatever got us excited, and then Dave Cobb would kind of come in around 1PM and like throw a wrench in the works somewhere. Like, 'oh I love that, let's go there,' you know? His ADHD works very well with our ADHD, so that worked out."

The lead look at the album, "Darkness Always Wins," was the first song the band wrote in Cobb's studio, and kicked off the process of recording from scratch with the producer. "We were setting up the computer so we can show him some songs, and he's like, 'oh no we're not doing any of that.'"

Rather than sifting through previously recorded riffs and stems, Halestorm wrote the song from the ground up. "So we're getting all of these takes of the inception of the song," Lzzy shares. "Usually when we do a Halestorm record, we write the songs and everybody decides on what their favorite songs are, and then we go in the studio for a month and bang it out. This was the complete opposite. We're like, 'we don't have a plan, we don't know what we want to write about,' so we were just kind of letting the music tell us what to do, versus the other way around."

You can hear much more from Lzzy Hale of Halestorm on the band's upcoming tour plans, excitement to play at Black Sabbath's final show, her Instagram rebirth, and more above.

Everything is coming up Ne-Yo. Between stops on the 'For My Fans Tour' with Mary J. Blige, the GRAMMY winner joined Shelley Wade in the Audacy Sound Space at the Hard Rock Hotel New York to discuss touring with a fellow R&B icon, all that relationships talk, a few key career moments, and so much more.

"I am fantastic. I'm better than fantastic. I'm in a great, great space," he shares. "Things are going great in my career. Things are going great in my love life. My kids are healthy and smart, and bad as hell, but healthy and smart. Two out of three ain't bad. Yeah man things are good."

Of course in addition to being a constant force across the music landscape for the past 20 years, Ne-Yo has also become a hot topic thanks to his love life and his “pyramid” of girlfriends. Which is fine for Ne-Yo, as long as they stay for the music.

"I don't even so much mind anymore what gets you in the room. It's what keeps you in the room,” he explains. “You know if my personal life is what made you Google my name, and then you Google my name and then you get the music, that's fine. I don't even care. As long as you get to the important part."

Currently a part of the 'For My Fans Tour' with Mary J. Blige and Mario, Ne-Yo says it's like being with family. "Mary has always been just one of those real, like grassroots true-to-life people, you know. Mind you she has all of the makings of a diva, you know what I mean," he jokes. "Like you know if she walked in here and she had women throwing roses at her feet as she walked it'd be completely valid. It's like, 'all right well I mean it's Mary that's fine, it's Mary of course,' but she's also the kind of person that's gonna ask if you ate today, will get up and get you a glass of water if you need one, like she's just real people and she genuinely cares about people."

"Mario, same situation," adds Ne-Yo. "Dare I say, we damn started our careers together, because writing that song for him is kind of what got me the attention that got me my Def Jam deal, and then of course that song being one of his biggest kind of catapulted him to where he wound up."

"Just being able to share the stage with people that you genuinely respect, it's a beautiful thing."

To hear much more from Ne-Yo, listen to his full Audacy Check In above.