prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since Clipse’s new Re-Up Gang record (The Clipse Present the Re-Up Gang) is due out in a little more than ...
gorilla vs. bear (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Till The Casket Drops is slated to be the first record released by the Clipse under the duo's new deal with Columbia, and features an as-yet-untitled collab with Rick Rubin , as well as production from Pharrell and others. Billboard says Till The Casket Drops is out in November, but it doesn't say what year, so I wouldn't hold my breath. ( more )
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
After a sheet music website accidentally revealed (and then deleted) the track list for Metallica’s Death Magnetic earlier today, the band confirmed the ten songs that will appear on their Rick Rubin-produced album, due out in September. One title immediately jumps out: “The Unforgiven III,” following the Metallica’s “The Unforgiven” and roughly 11 years after [...]
Gossip Thug - GossipThug.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
After a sheet music website accidentally revealed (and then deleted) the track list for Metallica’s Death Magnetic earlier today, the band confirmed the ten songs that will appear on their Rick Rubin-produced album, due out in September. One title immediately jumps out: “The Unforgiven III,” following the Metallica’s “The Unforgiven” and roughly 11 years after [...]
F-News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Metal band Slayer have hinted they might split soon. The US band are contracted to record one more album with American Recordings, but have suggested that it may be their last. Frontman Tom Araya said: "Let's put it this way, this is the final record of our commitment with Rick Rubin. When we first signed a deal with him back in 1986, we never sat down and said, 'How long do you guys want to keep this...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Are the thrash-metal kings Slayer ready to hang it up after closing out their 2008 tour schedule? Well, probably not directly after the tour winds down; they have an album coming out in 2009—their tenth—that will satisfy their contract with Rick Rubin's label, American Recordings. But given that frontman Tom Araya told the UK metal site Thrash Hits that "seeing a 50-year-old man headbanging on stage...
Herohill (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
web site I'm as shocked as anyone, but I am thoroughly enjoying the new record from Jakob Dylan . I hated the Wallflowers and honestly never paid Jakob much mind. But when I heard Rick Rubin was going to be on the knobs for Seeing Things , I was interested to see how he was going to guide Jakob. Would we travel a vast, desolate landscape full of emotions and gentle guitar picks or see Rubin filling...
The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
To get it out of the way: Re-Up Gang sound like they recorded "Money" by yelling through the stomach of a robot in a secret tunnel underneath Rick Rubin's bearskin rug. And it works! "Money," from the soon to be released Re-Up album, isn't as good as "Set it Off," from Kardinal Offishall's upcoming album Not 4 Sale , which succeeds by taking Kardi's highly dubious line I don't take my chain off on...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Rick Rubin, who’s bestowed his magical bearded touch on Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond, is taking oldsters Crosby, Stills & Nash under his wing for an album of covers. Fresh off the documentary “CSNY: Deja Vu“, the perennial tour dogs are, as usual, on the road. All three are currently doing dates with [...]
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Earlier this week, we heard Metallica's new Rick Rubin-produced album will be available for Guitar Hero III the same day it hits stores. If you wanna know what it sounds like, try Google cache . The unpublishing of Death Magnetic buzz is suspect, but Dave and Chris will be first in line for it anyway. Blabbermouth gives us the first look at the album cover...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
When I read that Rick Rubin was going to produce the new Crosby, Stills, and Nash record, for a split second I got excited, thanks to imagining the trio harmonizing sweetly over the top of some badass "99 Problems" boom-bap. For better or worse, that is not the case. Instead, they'll be teaming with Rubin to record an album of covers—so what we'll probably get is a ripoff of Johnny Cash's dour,...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Crosby, Stills & Nash are plotting their first studio album since 1994—a covers set for Columbia Records helmed by Rick Rubin. “Rick Rubin’s a brilliant man,” Graham Nash tells Billboard.com, “and what he wants is an album with no CSN songs. He wants to do an album of all the songs we love, all the songs we wish we’ve written. It’s brilliant from this point of view because we usually wait five years...
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Man, I always tell folks that there's nothing pure about being black. Turns out the Electric Slide was created by a white guy. But hey, there's no Stax without Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper, no Run-DMC without Rick Rubin. Marvin...
MusicEmissions (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Remember Johnny Cash's American Recordings with Rick Rubin? Well, Home Before Dark and 12 Songs are the start of the same dealio for Mr. Neil Diamond . Rick Rubin has taken him under his wing and is turning out some really good singer/songwriter material. Rarely does Neil rock out on this album but there are many times where he gets his fans up and dancing. Sure, the 57 year old doesn't get going like...
IndieBlogHeaven (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
So, who hasn't worked with Rick Rubin yet? Jakob Dylan has reinvented himself on a great acoustic record called Seeing Things, which came out a couple of weeks ago. Produced by the Rubinator himself, gone is the Wallflowers Alternarock/AAA format...
