Rick Rubin

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Q&A: How Howlin' Rain Survived a Four-Year Hiatus, Worked with Rick Rubin, and Finished The Russian Wilds

Howlin' Rain​ By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO When Howlin' Rain's Ethan Miller answers the door of the Brooklyn flat he's borrowing from a friend, the disheveled hair and wildly scraggly beard he's sporting gives him the look of a modern-day Rip Van Winkle. In many ways, the analogy fits, given that it' ... More >>

Howlin Rain: Show Preview

Howlin' Rain​ By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO When Howlin' Rain's Ethan Miller answers the door of the Brooklyn flat he's borrowing from a friend, the disheveled hair and wildly scraggly beard he's sporting gives him the look of a modern-day Rip Van Winkle. In many ways, the analogy fits, given that it' ... More >>

Veteran Rappers: Do You Really Need to Continue Making New Records?

There was a time, back in the late '80s, when the legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One was a candidate for the title of Greatest Rapper of All Time. Twenty-five years later, though, the self-anointed Blastmaster's latest long-player, The B.D.P. Album, suggests that compulsory retirement from the recording ... More >>

DJ Shadow Goes Shopping for Inspiration at Amoeba

There was a time, back in the late '80s, when the legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One was a candidate for the title of Greatest Rapper of All Time. Twenty-five years later, though, the self-anointed Blastmaster's latest long-player, The B.D.P. Album, suggests that compulsory retirement from the recording ... More >>

Merle Haggard vs. San Francisco: Five Songs in Which Country's Best Works Through His Issues With the Bay

The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

The Avett Brothers on Working with Rick Rubin and Finding Solace in Home Depot

The Avett Brothers​ The Avett Brothers have been busy. Following the commercial success of their 2009 release, I And Love And You, the band has been touring nonstop through the U.S. and Europe, including a stop at the Grammys with fellow banjo aficionados Mumford & Sons and, oh yeah, Bob Dylan ... More >>

Rick Rubin Says Metallica Is About to Record a New Album, Plans S.F. Show

Rick Rubin: Now this is what Metallica's producer should look like.UPDATE: In more local Metallica news, a posting on the band's websit​e today indicates the band will perform at the annual Salesforce.com convention at Moscone Center on Wednesday, Aug. 31. Turns out Kirk Hammet's next-door neighbo ... More >>

Adele, Future Queen of Divas

Rick Rubin: Now this is what Metallica's producer should look like.UPDATE: In more local Metallica news, a posting on the band's websit​e today indicates the band will perform at the annual Salesforce.com convention at Moscone Center on Wednesday, Aug. 31. Turns out Kirk Hammet's next-door neighbo ... More >>

Slayer's Kerry King Talks Messing Up Guitar Solos, the New Metallica, and Playing with the Beastie Boys

Mark SeligerSlayer, with Kerry King at far right​Los Angeles thrash-metal juggernaut Slayer has been kicking ass so ferociously for so long that the word "fucking" has practically been appended to the front of the band's name. Raising the metal bar for brutality and blasphemy over the course of ne ... More >>

Last Night: Gossip at Regency Ballroom

Joseph Schell​Gossip October 25, 2009 Regency BallroomBy Rossiter Drake Better Than: Staying home to watch Dexter and Mad Men. But be sure to DVR them. "We started a band 'cause we were bored. Our mission is to make you dance, and if you're not gonna dance, just stay at home and listen to the old ... More >>

Gossip trades punk for funk

Joseph Schell​Gossip October 25, 2009 Regency BallroomBy Rossiter Drake Better Than: Staying home to watch Dexter and Mad Men. But be sure to DVR them. "We started a band 'cause we were bored. Our mission is to make you dance, and if you're not gonna dance, just stay at home and listen to the old ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: El Kool Kyle of El Superrritmo

​If you've ever packed it into the Make-Out Room on a Saturday night, you have El Kool Kyle to thank for making you sweat. The El Superrritmo DJ goes crate digging across continents to bring back the best the barrios have to offer (and over Halloween weekend, you can take advantage of his sonic tr ... More >>

Kid Koala reimagines heavy rock with the Slew

​If you've ever packed it into the Make-Out Room on a Saturday night, you have El Kool Kyle to thank for making you sweat. The El Superrritmo DJ goes crate digging across continents to bring back the best the barrios have to offer (and over Halloween weekend, you can take advantage of his sonic tr ... More >>

Pay for Play

Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

Metallica: Metal heroes once more

Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

Frisco Freakout makes a California scene

Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

Metallica

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Bay Area Picks for SXSW

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Rick Rubin Digs Howlin Rain's Distorted View of the '70s

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Legendary Oddballs Ween Paint the Town Brown

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Gristle for the Mill

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Radical Chick

You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

The Boys (and Girls) From Brazil

Diplo, Bonde do Role, and CSS bring on the funk

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway) Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: "Jew-pergroup"

What the Fuck, 2005

The 10 most head-scratching, insulting, crass, craven, and weird musical moments of the year

Holiday Gift Guide

The 10 most head-scratching, insulting, crass, craven, and weird musical moments of the year

Journalism 101

Dear Reactionaries: If you think the New Times merger spells trouble for local music, read this column

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Rick Rubin's moxie.

Dear Reactionaries: If you think the New Times merger spells trouble for local music, read this column

Paradise Found

Two years ago, the Velvet Teen took the road less traveled, and -- as Elysium proves -- that has made all the difference

Johnny Cash|Various Artists

At Madison Square Garden|American IV: The Man Comes Around|Dressed in Black|Kindred Spirits

Johnny Cash; Merle Haggard

Cash: American III: Solitary Man (American) / Haggard: If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)

Got Live If You Want It

What do a cappella, opera, and jazz have to do with hip hop? Ask Felonious.

Riff Raff

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Night +Day

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Reviews

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Riff Raff

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Cash Rehash

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Recordings

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