Rick Rubin: Last News

Smashing Pumpkins have shared two new tracks, ‘Purple Blood’ and ‘Dulcet In E’ – you can listen to them below.The new tracks are the latest preview of the alt-rock icons’ forthcoming 11th album ‘CYR’, which is due to arrive next Friday (November 27).‘Purple Blood’ and ‘Dulcet In E’ follow last month’s ‘Ramona’ and ‘Wyttch’, as well as the previously released tracks ‘Anno Satana’ and ‘Birch Grove’, ‘Confessions Of A Dopamine Addict’ and ‘Wrath’, and lead tracks ‘Cyr’ and ‘The Colour Of Love’.‘CYR’ will follow the band’s 2018 record ‘Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past.

System of a Down have released two new songs, their first since 2005. Scroll down to watch the “Protect The Land” video and listen to “Genocidal Humanoidz” now.

In a wide-ranging interview on Rick Rubin's podcast

He compared getting musical ideas to "flicking on the radio" and talked being inspired by Justin Timberlake

Rick Rubin hits No. 1 on Billboard's Rock Producers chart (dated April 25), leading for the first time thanks to nine production credits on the Hot Rock Songs chart, all on tracks performed by The Strokes.All nine songs are from The Strokes' LP The New Abnormal, which debuts at No.

The latest preview of 'The New Abnormal'

It's Killer Mike and El-P's second new song in a matter of days

It was released on Instagram by El-P last night.

Run the Jewels have shared a new song called “The Yankee and the Brave”—a taste of their forthcoming album RTJ4. Take a listen below.

In a year marked by lineup upheaval, BROCKHAMPTON’s Kevin Abstract developed more of a transformative idea about the collective’s future. In GQ’s recently published interview (that was shot in June 2019), the frontman opened up to Rick Rubin about his vision for the group formation.

Broken Record podcast, when Beastie Boys Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz reunite with Rick Rubin, who was their friend, producer and cowriter of their epochal 1986 debut album “Licensed to Ill.”And since Horovitz and Rubin hadn’t spoken in more than 20 years (not out of anger, but just because they simply hadn’t), it not only has the joyfulness of reuniting with an old friend, it almost amounts to an oral history of the group’s early years: touring with Run-DMC and Madonna, going to the legendary NYC nightclubs of the 1980s, Rubin’s infamous bubble machine (which has taken on legendary status in Beastie lore) and more.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorYou know how you can get together with an old friend you haven’t seen for years, and it’s like you were just together yesterday? It happens on the TK podcast, when Beastie Boys Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz reunite with Rick Rubin, who was their friend, producer and cowriter of their epochal 1986 debut album “Licensed to Ill.”And since Horovitz and Rubin hadn’t spoken in more than 20 years (not out of anger, but just because they simply hadn’t), it not only has the joyfulness of reuniting with an old friend, it almost amounts to an oral history of the group’s early years: touring with Run-DMC and Madonna, going to the legendary NYC nightclubs of the 1980s, Rubin’s infamous bubble machine