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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”

Metal Hammer

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

The Independent UK

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

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

Evening Standard

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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”

Guitar World

‘I would walk in and just cry for two hours’: Kesha on cats, court cases, and the dangers of ‘toxic positivity’

She was pop’s biggest party girl, but since accusing her producer of abuse she’s been in limbo, wary of speaking out. Now, on the aptly named Gag Order, she’s finding catharsis. ‘I have all the emotions,’ she says

The Guardian - UK

Watch the trailer for Flea’s new podcast series

First guests on the show will include Rick Rubin, Patti Smith and Thundercat

Guitar World

Wes Borland on how he ended up playing guitar like a trombone, why he loves four-string electrics, his “out-of-control” gear habit – and what's next for Limp Bizkit

One of metal's most idiosyncratic players is selling off a vast array of gear from his collection – he tells Guitar World about making the tough decisions, and what survived in his current epic guitar rig

Guitar World

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Imagine Dragons' Wayne Sermon on how his time playing jazz at Berklee formed the foundation of his pop rock approach

The guitar star addresses the Rick Rubin-produced Mercury – Acts 1 and 2, and why there won't be a third installment of the Mercury collection

Guitar World

Wes Borland is selling off a huge gear haul, including the Mesa/Boogie head used on Three Dollar Bill, Y'all and a host of custom and prototype guitars

The Limp Bizkit guitarist has announced an enormous gear sale – and you might be able to afford some of it

Guitar World

Your favorite artist’s favorite artist: How SZA went from cult star to pop superstar

LOS ANGELES — As the sun sets on a balmy February afternoon in West Hollywood, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter known as SZA has just wrapped her second photo shoot of the day, inside a historic three-story house off Sunset Boulevard. She wears rainbow chakra beads around her neck and rhinestones on…

Los Angeles Times

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin review – life lessons from the bearded beat master

The co-founder of Def Jam Records and the man behind countless hits, from the Beastie Boys and Jay-Z to Neil Young, offers artistic wisdom that is both gnomic and pertinent

The Guardian - UK

Stormzy: This Is What I Mean review – haunted by heartbreak on his most personal album yet

The rapper is still capable of lyrical swagger, political insight and hugely entertaining flexes but his third LP is a musically subtle trawl through his romantic regrets

The Guardian - UK

EXCLUSIVE: The Adventures Of Tom Ward, The Celebrity Interviewer Who Lived A Double Life

Everyone has a superpower. It rests on whether you have enough patience to realize and strengthen your superpower. That's according to Tom Ward, the writer and celebrity interviewer behind The Tow Ward Show.

Benzinga

How 2 well-connected LA siblings curated 20 years of eclectic musical magic

LOS ANGELES — Like pretty much everybody else in the world, Sean and Sara Watkins were blown away by Joni Mitchell's surprise return to the stage last month at the Newport Folk Festival, where the 78-year-old singer-songwriter gave her first full public performance since she suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm…

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The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. talks touring and being ‘a weirder band’

Albert Hammond Jr. says it felt both strange and incredible when the Strokes headed back out on tour earlier this year to play live.

Evening Standard

Paul McCartney at 80: Has any other pop star got a legacy like this?

As the singer reaches his ninth decade, we look at his extraordinary career at the top of pop

Los Angeles Times

How the Red Hot Chili Peppers rediscovered the best version of themselves

LOS ANGELES — Dressed in the signature colors of the basketball team he loves — loves even when the team pains him as it has over the last few months — Flea comes roaring into the parking lot of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Van Nuys rehearsal space astride a…

The Independent UK

Red Hot Chili Peppers review, Unlimited Love: Rock band’s batteries have run out on this lifeless album

It becomes increasingly hard to separate tracks in the great unspooling of this slow and sloppy record

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The Guardian - UK

Red Hot Chili Peppers: ‘People misbehave and make mistakes. They don’t know better’

As they reunite for their 12th album, the punk-funk rockers are trying to age gracefully after a youth full of sex and drugs. So why does Anthony Kiedis hang up after a difficult question?

Evening Standard

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love review: Friends reunited find their mojo

Returning to their strongest line-up, with Rick Rubin in tow, these veterans are ready to rock again

The Guardian - UK

Rick Rubin: Def Jam founder and producer announces debut book

The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be ‘a book about what to do make a great work of art’ and ‘a book about how to be’

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