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"Public Enemy gave the establishment something to fear, an intelligent, angry, politicised, uncompromising voice for disenfranchised black America." A beginner's guide to Def Jam Recordings in five essential albums

Def Jam is the most influential record label in hip-hip history. Here is your guide to its most significant releases

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"Sometimes we entertain the idea of having a producer working with us… but in our band, we are each other’s Rick Rubin": Justice on keeping production in house for new album Hyperdrama

Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé lift the lid on their creative process in a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe

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“It was just playing with Johnny once again, and that’s what it was. That was the energy of the creation”: New Johnny Cash album of unreleased songs has been announced, first single Well Alright streaming now

Songwriter is out 28 June and features songs the Man In Black first tracked in '93, produced and restored by son John Carter Cash and David “Fergie” Ferguson in the company of an all-star band

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Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

Rescued from Cash’s low ebb in the early 1990s, this fun, lightweight song is a long way from the moody recordings with Rick Rubin he soon turned towards

The Guardian - UK

Lost Johnny Cash songs from 1993 to be released as a new album

The country star’s son co-produces Songwriter, worked up from demos with a group of former bandmates and guests including Vince Gill and Dan Auerbach backing Cash’s vocals

The Guardian - UK

"I did a lot of research on Rick... I don't believe his audience is creative people": Jacob Collier calls Rick Rubin's creative manifesto "absolutely false"

Musical polymath takes issue with bearded superproducer

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“When James comes in, there’s a presence”: Metallica producer explains what James Hetfield and Johnny Cash have in common

Hardwired… To Self-Destruct and 72 Seasons producer Greg Fidelman has said what trait Metallica’s frontman shares with country’s legendary man in black

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"CBS dumped us and we couldn’t get the record out for ages": Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King on the making of Slayer's Angel Of Death – and the fallout that followed

In 2011 Slayer's guitarists reflected on their classic and the blowback from its subject matter

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“That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull

The story behind Chicago doom lords Trouble’s landmark 1985 album The Skull – the album which helped shape a generation

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“Probably one of the greatest Strats I’ve ever played… and I can see through it”: Watch Marcus King play a cardboard Stratocaster as he previews new track from Rick Rubin-produced album

The Marcus King Band's Cardboard Sessions prove that great tone can come from upcycled materials, and that King's forthcoming album Mood Swings will be a highlight of 2024

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"I have no technical ability, and I know nothing about music": Yet here are 5 Rick Rubin-produced songs you need to hear

From hip-hop to rock and pop, Rubin has done it all...

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Gossip's Beth Ditto: 'Fat people shouldn’t do drugs, they always die young’

Never the shrinking violet, Beth Ditto is back with both a bang and a new album with Gossip. She tells Craig McLean that while speaking out is vital, it’s also okay to say, who f***ing cares?

Evening Standard

"Rick Rubin said, 'I'd like to have the original Foghat and record them', so we buried the hatchet": The story of Foghat, who turned up the blues, grew huge moustaches, and became superstars

A celebration of the long-standing appeal of slow ridin’ rock’n’rollers Foghat, who chose their name from some jumbled-up Scrabble letters

Louder

“We were auditioning for bass players, but most of the guys who came in were too good. One day I just said, ‘What if I play bass?’” Shavo Odadjian on why he switched from guitar to the bass

Shavo Odadjian holds down the low-end in System of a Down, America’s most uncategorisable band

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“We wrote it in about five minutes”: Interrogating the myth of the quickly-written hit song

We speak to industry luminaries and songwriting experts to investigate whether the popular idea that chart-topping song can be written in minutes holds any water…

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Rick Rubin admits he doesn't know how to use a mixing desk: "I have no technical ability, and I know nothing about music"

Best of 2023: The super-producer reveals his creative process in a new interview with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes

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Up First briefing: SCOTUS asked to take on Trump immunity; office party etiquette

Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to hear a dispute on whether Trump has immunity. How to survive your office holiday party.

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Rick Rubin on taking communion with Johnny Cash and not rushing creativity

Rick Rubin could have written about the music industry and insider stories. Instead, he spent eight years writing what is basically a spiritual text about making something meaningful.

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10 Christmas gift ideas for the music-maker in your life under $100

Stocking stuffers for musicians on a budget

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“It’s the end of Sabbath, believe me”: The story of Black Sabbath’s abandoned 20th album

After the release of 13, Black Sabbath promised one more album before their farewell tour. Schedule conflicts and health scares meant it never came to be.

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“I am not your guru, OK? I’m not Rick Rubin with a beard”: Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton promises to be your “cool professor” as he launches a new mixing masterclass that takes you inside the ‘Vulf Sound’

“I might show up at the football game and, yeah, we’re all getting girlfriends after this,” he promises

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"We’d build our own pyro - there was a lot of smoke and chaos": Dave Lombardo talks Cuban heritage, befriending Mike Patton and why Slayer were the greatest thrash metal band

One of thrash metal's architects, Dave Lombardo recounts a life in music from Slayer to Dead Cross, Testament to Empire State Bastard

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"It's like the universe had this incredible power to affect my ear and make me stay in one place": How an ear infection birthed Licensed to Ill's groundbreaking production and drove the Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin apart

A look back at the Beastie Boys' rocky relationship with the bearded superproducer

The Independent UK

Beth Ditto’s band Gossip reuniting for first new music in a decade

Band will release new album ‘Real Power’ in March

Louder

The 50 best collaborations in rock

Guest spots, duets, team-ups and mashups – we take a look at the weird, wonderful world of the rock’n’roll collaboration…

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