A look into how the live show of Slayer was responsible for Rick Rubin becoming a die hard fan of them and producing their albums, despite nearly dying at them.

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.

These four famous pop songs were ghostwritten, and the actually songwriters behind them might just surprise you.

Instead, the Beastie Boys were a pop-punk band. According to American Songwriter, record producer Rick Rubin convinced the band to fully make the switch to rap and hip-hop, becoming the Beastie ...

Rick Rubin If there’s one producer that epitomises ... LL Cool J, Run DMC and the Beastie Boys. It was this latter group that Rubin encouraged to sidestep from punk to rap.

The Beatles? The Stones? Led Zeppelin? Please... when it comes to rock, no one comes close to these three consecutive AC/DC ...

The horrendous terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 would close the book on 20th century certainty. Its incensed retaliation - the Bush administration’s 'war on terror’ - signalled to the ...

Daryl Hall is finally taking a stand against yacht rock. In a recent interview with Justin Richmond and Rick Rubin’s “Broken Record” podcast, the Hall & Oats singer railed against the ...