Rick Rubin

American record producer

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2025 Produced Tyler Childers' album 'Snipe Hunter'
2024 Produced Marcus King's album 'Mood Swings'
2024 Produced Beabadoobee's album 'This Is How Tomorrow Moves'
2024 Produced Gossip's album 'Real Power'
2023 Produced Kesha's album 'Gag Order'
2023 Produced Travis Scott's album 'Utopia'
2023 Produced Lil Uzi Vert's album 'Pink Tape'
2023 Rick Rubin is featured in 'Circus Maximus' documentary
2023 Launched 'Tetragrammaton' podcast on Apple Podcasts, featuring interviews with various guests.
January 17 2023 Published his debut book 'The Creative Act: A Way of Being' through Penguin Press, a nonfiction work about creativity where he explores the process of artistic creation.
2022 Produced Imagine Dragons' album 'Mercury – Act 2'
2022 Produced Red Hot Chili Peppers' album 'Unlimited Love'
2022 Produced Jovanotti's album 'Il disco del sole'
2022 Produced Neil Young and Crazy Horse's album 'World Record'
2022 Produced Red Hot Chili Peppers' album 'Return of the Dream Canteen'
2022 Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler discusses his mixed experiences working with Rick Rubin on their 2013 album, expressing confusion about Rubin's production approach and suggestions.
2022 Returned to producing for Red Hot Chili Peppers, creating two albums seven months apart: Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen.
2021 Produced Imagine Dragons' album 'Mercury – Act 1'
2021 Produced multiple tracks for Santana, including 'Peace Power', 'America for Sale', and 'Mother Yes'
2021 Rick Rubin appears in two documentary series: 'McCartney 3,2,1' and 'Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free'
2021 Co-stars in the six-part documentary miniseries 'McCartney 3,2,1', exploring Paul McCartney's career.
July 2021 Rubin signed with Endeavor Content to develop his home studio, Shangri-La Recording Studios, expanding his music production capabilities.
2020 Produced The Strokes' album 'The New Abnormal'
2019 Produced Santana's 'Africa Speaks', multiple albums for Jovanotti including 'Jova Beach Party' and 'Lorenzo sulla Luna', and Kae Tempest's 'The Book of Traps and Lessons'.
2019 Rick Rubin is featured in the documentary series 'Shangri-La'
2019 Corey Taylor again comments on Rick Rubin's production style, criticizing his studio absences while recording Slipknot's album, though he acknowledges Rubin as a 'nice guy'.
2018 Produced the Ruen Brothers' 'All My Shades of Blue' and The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.'
2018 Rick Rubin appears in one episode of 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman'
2017 Produced Billy Corgan's 'Ogilala', Jovanotti's 'Oh, vita!', and Eminem's 'Revival'.
2016 Produced Kanye West's 'The Life of Pablo', the collaborative 'Star Wars Headspace' album, James Blake's 'The Colour in Anything', and The Avett Brothers' 'True Sadness'.
2016 Corey Taylor expresses regret for his previous criticism of Rick Rubin, attributing his earlier comments to being 'freshly sober' and unfamiliar with Rubin's unique production approach.
2014 Produced albums such as Ed Sheeran's 'X', Damien Rice's 'My Favourite Faded Fantasy', Wu-Tang Clan's 'A Better Tomorrow', and worked on the Linkin Park & Alec Puro 'Mall' soundtrack.
2014 Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor publicly criticizes Rick Rubin's production methods, claiming Rubin was absent during the recording of Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) and calling him 'overrated' and 'overpaid'.
2013 Produced executive and full albums including Black Sabbath's '13', Kanye West's 'Yeezus', Eminem's 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2', Lady Gaga's 'Artpop', and The Avett Brothers' 'Magpie and the Dandelion'.
2013 Produced Black Sabbath's album 13.
2012 Produced diverse albums including Linkin Park's 'Living Things', ZZ Top's 'La Futura', The Avett Brothers' 'The Carpenter', and Lana Del Rey's 'Paradise'.
2012 Rick Rubin left Columbia Records and revived the American Recordings imprint through a deal with Republic Records, releasing albums by ZZ Top and the Avett Brothers.
2012 Rubin attempted to record a cover album with Crosby, Stills & Nash, but the sessions were unsuccessful and described by Graham Nash as 'irritable' and 'not a great experience'.
2011 Produced notable albums including Adele's '21', Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'I'm with You', Metallica's 'Beyond Magnetic', and continued work with Linkin Park on 'A Thousand Suns+'.
2010 Rick Rubin produced multiple significant albums, including Johnny Cash's 'American VI: Ain't No Grave', Gogol Bordello's 'Trans-Continental Hustle', Linkin Park's 'A Thousand Suns', Josh Groban's 'Illuminations', and Kid Rock's 'Born Free'.

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