Rick Rubin + Finneas: Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians – Special Series

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What happens when we take away the writer and ask two groundbreaking producers, from two different generations, to interview each other? On this episode of Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians, also running as a special series in the Rolling Stone Music Now feed, Rick Rubin and Finneas talk about how they work in the studio, their listening habits, and the frustrations and the joy involved in making great music. Rick Rubin started Def Jam Records out of his NYU dorm room in the 1980s, and went on to produce classic albums by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash and many others. He’s still going strong: In addition to his continued collaboration with groups like the Chili Peppers and The Strokes, his book The Creative Act hits bookstores in 2023. Rubin sat down with a young talent making waves of his own: Finneas O’Connell. Finneas produced his sister Billie Eilish’s 2019 smash hit debut in his childhood bedroom in L.A., and has a career of his own as an incisive singer-songwriter — just last year he released his solo debut Optimist. Rubin was a key influence when Finneas was growing up, and their conversation revealed two cutting-edge minds eager to learn from one other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Words and music is an intimate groundbreaking audible series that blends in-depth memoir
0:06.6	with exclusive performances to reveal the storied lives and singular creative vision
0:11.4	of music icons.
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0:17.6	Words and music brings together an extraordinary roster of once in a generation
0:21.7	artists,
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0:26.1	including Smoky Robinson, Alanis Mora set,
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0:34.0	Hear them and other groundbreaking artists share their stories and songs,
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0:50.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, host of Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:54.0	Today we're bringing you an episode of our sister podcast, Rolling Stones, Musicians on Musicians,
0:59.6	featuring Rick Rubin and Phineas.
1:16.3	I mean, musicians on musicians seems like a nice obvious title for this and a sort of like, that I'm always looking for like the captain obvious title for everything
1:20.8	Like I know what I'm getting from musicians on musicians. I was offended by it. Musicians on musicians is an oppressive statement.
1:27.0	Yeah.
1:29.0	If you want to change it to musicians versus musicians,
1:31.6	you can always amend it to that.
1:34.0	More musicians with musicians would be a little more inclusive, I think.
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