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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…

MusicRadar

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

MusicRadar

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.

WEKU

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.

WEKU

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

Stocking stuffers for musicians on a budget

MusicRadar

“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.

Metal Hammer

“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

MusicRadar

"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

Metal Hammer

"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

MusicRadar

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

Band will release new album ‘Real Power’ in March

The Independent UK

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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Metal Hammer

“We inadvertently started an LA riot, and we didn’t even do anything." System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian on fleeing civil war in Lebanon, causing mayhem in Hollywood and becoming an unlikely metal icon

From hearing bombs drop around his childhood home to fronting one of metal's biggest ever bands, this is Serj Tankians unbelievable life story

MusicRadar

“It is like playing last night’s lotto numbers”: John Mayer explains why he has never learned a blues guitar solo in his life

If it has just turned four o'clock and you're still trying – and failing – to nail Three O'Clock Blues, Mayer has a better suggestion

MusicRadar

Paul McCartney's 12 greatest Beatles bass performances: "I did get quite proud to be the bass player. Once you realised the control you had over the band... They can’t go anywhere, man. Ha! Power!"

Let's Come Together and celebrate Macca

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"For me, the hardest thing is the songwriting" – Trent Reznor on the future of Nine Inch Nails, his soundtrack work and a new appreciation for Dua Lipa

He's gained admiration for (some) contemporary pop music through his five children

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Flea names the one bassline that he would “go back and fix” from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's 1995 album, One Hot Minute

Flea on the making of One Hot Minute: “I thought it sounded like another stupid white boy trying to be funky!”

Metal Hammer

9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer

From hip hop legends Public Enemy to Essex rave punks The Prodigy, here are some of the musicians who've sprinkled the Devil's music in amongst their own delicious chaos

The Guardian - UK

Kesha: Gag Order review – angry and uplifting

The pop survivor addresses past traumas on her powerful fifth album, with lush production by Rick Rubin

Metal Hammer

How Rick Rubin helped Linkin Park break free from nu metal

When Linkin Park turned to Rick Rubin to help them reinvent themselves, the band said that the legendary producer had a “touch of genius”

The Independent UK

Kesha, Gag Order review: Trauma squirms across this fascinating snakes’ nest of trippy electronic tracks

Loaded with deliciously weird hooks, ‘Gag Order’ showcases a singer who is just getting started

Evening Standard

Kesha – Gag Order album review: dark strange and grippingly honest

This new album, made with legendary producer Rick Rubin, is a disorientating listen

Guitar World

The guitar gear secrets behind James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett’s tones on 72 Seasons

Metallica co-producer Greg Fidelman reveals how the new album was made with the help of a Marshall modded by Eddie Van Halen’s amp wizard and a rack full of battle-hardened guitars, including one that makes Hetfield “immediately want to play fast riffs”

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