Gene Simmons has appeared on the latest edition of Rick Rubin's Tetragrammaton podcast ... the pair discuss Simmons' early years, the formation of pre-Kiss band Wicked Lester, Kiss's 50-year ...

In a special episode of 'Desert Island Discs', Rick Rubin picked out his favourite songs, including work from The Beatles, Neil Young and LCD Soundsystem.

(JTA) — Like many parents, Mickey and Linda Rubin indulged their only child ... room of their Bronx apartment building. In its early years, rap was dismissed as street music by most music ...

Rubin was born in 1963, spending formative years playing in punk bands at garage shows ... its essence was captured in the credit he applied to early recordings that read “Reduced by Rick Rubin”. Def ...

At the centre of hip-hop's essential mid-1980s commercial transition, Def Jam Recordings founder Rick Rubin was eager for one artist to join his new label.

Frusciante was only 18 years old and hadn’t found his voice yet. But there was a virtuoso hiding inside, and Rick Rubin extracted ... hardcore to hip-hop in the early 1980s.

Sponsor Message So when I read Rick ... Rubin could have written a bestselling book about the music industry and insider stories about huge music stars. Instead, he spent eight years writing ...