Josh Abraham has spent his career championing the outliers. “I’m drawn to those who lead the way by not following trends,” ...

Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick Rubin, ...

Set for release on July 25th, Tyler kicked off the announcement with a new, full band version of “Nose On The Grindstone,” a popular fan favorite from 2017 that never saw a formal recording outside of ...

They weren’t punk, they weren’t hip-hop, they were simply the Beastie Boys, and this is the most overlooked gem in their ...

It’s Tricky is a song that mixes a catchy beat with a rock sample from “My Sharona” by The Knack. The lyrics discuss the challenges of maintaining focus in the public eye. This speech is my recital, I ...

Tyler Childers fans have a reason to rejoice with the announcement of a new album, and wait for it, the new album is produced ...

While recreating his 1984 audition for Sheila E’s band, Raphael Saadiq slipped in a quick spontaneous story about something ...

Nine-time Grammy award-winning music producer Rick Rubin took the Qualtrics X4 stage ... the hip-hop genre in the late 1980s with the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. In 2007, he was named one of the ...

Rick Rubin became famous in the ’80s as the producer of some of the greatest hip-hop and rock records of that decade - from Run-DMC’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys' Licensed To Ill to Slayer’s ...

Run-DMC's "Raising Hell" came out in May 1986, produced by a former New York pal of the Beastie Boys: Def Jam founder Rick Rubin. Rubin went on to produce hundreds of records, collaborating with ...

But the Beastie Boys—with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin—were crucial to bringing rap music to the mainstream. Rubin wondered why rap albums didn’t sound like the music he was hearing in the ...