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Rick Rubin

June 2024

  • Johnny Cash in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1987

    ‘He’d turned into a weird old grandpa’: how Johnny Cash resurrected his career – and became an icon

    In the early 90s, the Man in Black was unsigned, uncool and barely out of addiction. Releasing lost songs from those years that rank among Cash’s best, his son and bandmates explain how he came back around

May 2024

  • Beabadoobee.

    Beabadoobee: ‘I don’t have time for death threats. I’ve got a mortgage to pay’

    A support slot on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and a Rick Rubin produced album has given the former TikTok-viral musician a new sense of self-confidence. Not even the internet trolls can stop her

May 2023

  • Dante Ross on W21st St, New York City on 31 March 1993. (Photo by David Corio/Redferns)

    ‘It was fun until it wasn’t’: hip-hop A&R Dante Ross on De La Soul, ODB – and punchups with P Diddy

    Hailed as the genre’s Forrest Gump for his time with artists from Busta Rhymes to Santana, today Ross contends that streaming, sampling and materialism have changed the genre beyond recognition

January 2023

  • LL Cool J and Rick Rubin

    Book of the day
    The Creative Act by Rick Rubin review – life lessons from the bearded beat master

    The co-founder of Def Jam Records and the man behind countless hits, from the Beastie Boys and Jay-Z to Neil Young, offers artistic wisdom that is both gnomic and pertinent

February 2022

  • Rick Rubin 2022

    Rick Rubin: Def Jam founder and producer announces debut book

    The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be ‘a book about what to do make a great work of art’ and ‘a book about how to be’

August 2021

  • McCartney 3,2,1 -- Paul McCartney sits down for a rare, in-depth, one on one with legendary producer Rick Rubin to discuss his groundbreaking work with The Beatles, the emblematic 70s arena rock of Wings and his 50 years and counting as a solo artist. In this six-episode series that explores music and creativity in a unique and revelatory manner, join Paul and Rick for an intimate conversation about the songwriting, influences, and personal relationships that informed the iconic songs that have served as the soundtracks of our lives. Paul McCartney, Rick Rubin, shown. (Photo Courtesy of Hulu)

    TV review
    McCartney 3, 2, 1 review – the Fab Four as you’ve never heard them before

    This bounteous feast for Beatles fans sees Paul McCartney dive into the back catalogue with producer Rick Rubin – who then does something truly amazing

June 2021

  • 0207 Def Jam ... (from left) Jacqueline Eyewe, Wretch 32, Amy Tettey, Alec Boateng, Heidi Jacob, Char Grant and Alex Boateng.

    Def Jam: how a new British imprint of the iconic rap label poached Stormzy

    Only 6% of music industry execs are Black. That system fails artists, say the founders of 0207 Def Jam, whose uniquely diverse boardroom aims to change the culture – for good

June 2019

  • Kate Tempest 2019 press publicity portrait

    Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons review – living poetry amid the chaos of 2019

    Producer Rick Rubin has pared back the effects, giving Tempest’s songs about trying to love and dance through our current crises room to reach out

February 2016

  • Sean Diddy Combs Celebrates New Years Eve in St Barths<br>GUSTAVIA, ST BARTHELEMY - DECEMBER 31:  Rick Rubin celebrates with their Circle of Friends at CIROC NYE in St Barthes hosted by Sean Diddy Combs on December 31, 2014 in Gustavia, St Barthelemy.  (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)

    Bass is strong with this one: Rick Rubin produces official Star Wars EDM album

    The producer enlists Flying Lotus, Röyksopp and Rustie for companion record to The Force Awakens, which features samples of C-3PO and Darth Vader, and a track from JJ Abrams himself

April 2015

  • Justin Bieber

    Justin Bieber nears completion of album with Kanye West and Rick Rubin

    Singer says he had to scrap one version of the album because he was ‘in a dark place’

February 2015

  • Marion "Suge" Knight, in court on 3 February 2015.

    What we learned this week
    What we learned: Suge Knight's living hell, John Legend's disgust and more

  • Rick Rubin

    Rick Rubin analyses Kanye, Cash and Jay-Z on music annotation site Genius

January 2015

  • Noel Gallagher of Oasis

    What we learned this week
    What we learned: Noel Gallagher's verbal wrath and Björk's return

  • Justin Bieber

    Justin Bieber teams up with Rick Rubin

October 2014

  • Yusuf Islam

    Yusuf: Tell ’Em I’m Gone review ‑ still the Cat with the cream

    Producer Rick Rubin and Tinariwen join the erstwhile Cat Stevens on this strong new set, writes Phil Mongredien
  • Yusuf/Cat Stevens

    Yusuf/Cat Stevens: Tell ’Em I’m Gone review – revealing Rick Rubin-produced reinvigoration

    A huskier Yusuf/Cat Stevens is another veteran spruced up by Rick Rubin on an album full of covers and interesting originals, writes Jon Dennis
  • Damien Rice

    Damien Rice: ‘I went scuba diving in the brain, free diving in the brain’

    Multi-platinum success left Damien Rice convinced people were using him. He sacked his band, retreated from music and ‘cleansed his mind’. Now, after eight years, he’s back …

September 2014

  • Gary Barlow

    Gary Barlow working with Rick Rubin on Finding Neverland

    Take That singer tweets that he has worked with famed producer for the soundtrack of Finding Neverland

June 2014

  • ed sheeran x review

    x review – Ed Sheeran's second album has a broad palette but lacks depth

  • Rick Rubin

    TV and radio blog
    Zane Lowe Meets Rick Rubin; Fresh Air Remembers Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott – radio review

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