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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Music and storytelling meet on Broken Record, where artists across genres and generations sit down to explore the joy, chaos, and vulnerability of creating—and what it means to devote a life to music. From legendary icons to groundbreaking new voices, each episode captures artists in conversation sharing the inspirations and experiences that shape their craft.
Episodes
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Andrew Bird + Jimbo Mathus
Listening to Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird’s new album, These 13, is like taking a trip down South … a century ago. It’s new territory for Andrew Bird, a…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Barry Gibb's Wild Ride
Few bands have experienced such extreme highs and lows as the Bee Gees. Throughout their decades-long career, the band of brothers managed to be both grossly…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Merry Clayton Finds Redemption
Merry Clayton is a legendary backup singer who has managed to consistently steal the spotlight. Merry’s journey from a renowned backup singer to a solo artist…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Marianne Faithfull Fights Back
Marianne Faithfull has been many things throughout her half a century in music—a close confidant of the Rolling Stones, a pop star, a homeless drug addict and…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Valerie June Shines Bright
Valerie June has helped widen the scope of contemporary Americana music. She’s one of few African American women in the category and her unique combination of…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Ziggy Marley Reminisces About Jamaica and His Father
Malcolm Gladwell recently spoke with Ziggy Marley as part of the Live Talks Los Angeles series. Their conversation centers around a book of photographs Ziggy…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Mike Shinoda on Beats, Rhymes and Linkin Park
Since forming in 1996, Linkin Park has sold over 100 million records worldwide. Their enormous success mixing genres like hip-hop, metal and anthemic pop was…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Kenny Beats + Rick Rubin, Part 2
Since his first conversation with Rick, Kenny Beats’ star has continued to rise. In the past couple of years he has produced songs with Ed Sheeran, Da Baby and…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Kenny Beats on the Regional Sounds of Hip Hop
There’s a reason Kenny Beats is one of the great young producers in Hip Hop. Because he has a vast understanding of the regional sounds and histories of cities…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Joan Baez
Rick Rubin speaks with the great Joan Baez fresh off her birthday and the announcement that she'll be among this year's Kennedy Center honorees! Joan was known…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's New Approach and a Wild Nirvana Conspiracy
Most people know Rivers Cuomo as Weezer’s brilliant, quirky lead singer. But one thing people may not know, is that several years ago, a bizarre conspiracy…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Earth, Wind & Fire's Verdine White with Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin connected with Earth, Wind & Fire's Verdine White to talk about the early days of the band and about their producer, Charles Stepney, who Verdine…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Nas In Conversation with Rick Rubin
Nas dropped one of the most universally loved rap albums of all time in 1994 with Illmatic. Few legends in Hip Hop have been able to maintain their relevance…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Legendary Music Journalist Lisa Robinson
Rick Rubin speaks with friend, pioneering rock journalist, Lisa Robinson about her over 40 year career that's seen her interview everyone from John Lennon to…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Ben Folds
Singer/songwriter, pianist, alt-rocker Ben Folds has been releasing records since the 90s. Sometimes with his band Ben Folds Five, sometimes solo. In this…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Broken Record Presents: A Musical Episode of Solvable
Mike Dickey is co-founder and chairman of the JackTrip Foundation and the creator of Virtual Studio. The awkward and disjointed experience of making music over…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Dave Cobb: Nashville's Super Producer
Nashville producer Dave Cobb has earned six Grammys for his standout work with artists like Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile and Chris Stapleton. Over the past 15…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
My Morning Jacket's Jim James
Jim James talks about and performs some songs off My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall 2. The album of holdovers from the band's 2015 album came out in July. Jim…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
James Blake
James Blake speaks with Rick Rubin about his new Covers EP. Since his debut album in 2011, the British-born James Blake has gone on to win England's top…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pharrell Williams
Rick Rubin connected with Pharrell Williams over Zoom recently to talk through and listen to some of the biggest hits from Pharrell’s illustrious career. They…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Andrew Watt: Producer on the Rise
It’s hard to believe Andrew Watt is only 30 years old. He's built up an impressive and diverse roster of collaborators over the last five years including Ozzy…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Black Pumas
The runway to success was short for Black Pumas. Five months after releasing their debut album in 2019, the Austin-based band was nominated for Best New Artist…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Jeff Tweedy's Songwriting Master Class
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy is a prolific songwriter and he's ready to share his secrets. They're all in his new book, How to Write One Song. On today's episode…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Leslie Odom Jr. of Hamilton
Leslie Odom Jr., best known for playing Aaron Burr in Hamilton, speaks to Bruce Headlam about his career on stage and in music and also his new Christmas…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Mike Campbell On First Album Post Heartbreakers
Mike Campbell, guitarist, co-writer and original Heartbreaker talks to Rick Rubin about growing up with Tom Petty, working on Wildflowers and about his new…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Deep Sea Diver
There’s no playbook for successfully releasing music during a pandemic. Especially if you’re an indie artist, the stakes really couldn’t be higher. But Deep…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Sturgill Simpson
Kentucky singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson was in his mid-30s when he found fame as a country artist in Nashville. He had already lived a full life including…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Lenny Kravitz
In the opening lines of his New York Times bestselling memoir, Let Love Rule, Lenny Kravitz writes that he is deeply two-sided. His young life was all about…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
S.G. Goodman
S.G. Goodman turns traditional Southern storytelling on its head with songs that present a deeper, more complex look at life below the Mason-Dixon line. As a…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke has managed to escape the long shadow of her very famous parents, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. She’s made a name for herself, first as an actor in…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman
Carlos Santana, along with his wife and drummer, Cindy Blackman got together with Rick Rubin to discuss the 2019 album they recorded together, Africa Speaks…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen is a national treasure. Since his debut album nearly 50 years ago, Springsteen has helped define the American working-class psyche through a…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Win Butler
Rick Rubin talks to Arcade Fire's Win Butler on the occasion of the The Suburb's tenth anniversary. The band's third record was their first number one album in…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Benmont Tench on life with Tom Petty
To celebrate the release of Tom Petty's Wildflowers & All The Rest box set, Rick Rubin connected with Heartbreakers keyboardist, Benmont Tench for a…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Tom Petty's Wildflowers II with Adria Petty
Tom Petty crafted another of his many perfect albums back in 1994, this time with Rick Rubin producing. Wildflowers was released as a single disc, Petty's…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Joe Henry
Joe Henry is likely one of the best living singer-songwriters that you've never heard of. But even if you don't recognize his name, you've probably heard his…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Khruangbin
Khruangbin will tell you they did everything wrong. Gave their band a Thai name, play mostly instrumental music, two members wear wigs, they record in barn …
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian
Burt Bacharach is a living legend. He's written hits sung by Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Dusty Springfield and so many more. With that…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie tells Rick Rubin there's a reason she isn’t a household name in the U.S. A pioneering artist in the Greenwich Village folk scene, she…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Don Was
Rick Rubin talk to Don was about his early days in Detroit, his time in Was Not Was and his wide ranging career producing defining-albums for the B-52's…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus is one of those producers who creates an entire aesthetic world with the music he makes. Over the past 13 years he’s released four solo albums…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Broken Record Presents: Into the Zone
Into the Zone is a podcast about opposites, and how borders are never as clear as we think. Country? Rap? Lil Nas X’s chart-topping “Old Town Road” revived a…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile came by Shangri La last year to talk to Rick Rubin with Tanya Tucker about the album they made together, While I'm Livin'. After Tanya left…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Justin Townes Earle: In Memoriam
Our episode with Justin Townes Earle was scheduled to run next month. But after we heard about Earle's passing over the weekend, we decided to put it out…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Vagabon: Fresh Find
This week’s Fresh Find, Vagabon, is a self taught, Cameroonian-born musician whose haunting voice and genre defying style has won over critics at both The New…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Run The Jewels Return!
***Run the Jewels are raw and so is the language in this episode*** Killer Mike and El-P return to Broken Record to discuss the creation of their fourth album…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Berhana: Fresh Find
Broken Record is bringing you a Fresh Find this week. We discovered Berhana after a key placement in Donald Glover’s show Atlanta. In this episode, Berhana…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Margo Price
A tornado raged through Margo Price's home-base of Nashville right as she was preparing to release her third album in March. A month later Margo’s husband and…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Broken Record Presents: Questlove Supreme with Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin joins Questlove and crew on their Questlove Supreme podcast. They discuss Rick's early Def Jam days, working with the Geto Boys, his process for…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Broken Record Presents: Aim Higher
Broken Record Presents: Aim Higher — the last episode of Against the Rules Season 2. Can everyone be coached — or are some people beyond help? The…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Huey Lewis
Back to the Future is turning 35 and there's no better way to celebrate than a conversation with Huey Lewis who turned in one of the more memorable movie…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Beastie Boys and Spike Jonze
It's been nearly 35 years since the Beastie Boys released their classic debut album, Licensed To Ill. In this candid conversation, Rick Rubin, who started out…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is defying convention. While most of her peers have settled into a well worn groove, the alt-country icon just released an album that's way…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
RZA Talks Wu-Tang and Creativity In Quarantine
Rick Rubin checks in with RZA on Zoom and finds out he's been peaking creatively while in quarantine. Their wide-ranging conversation covers RZA's first…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Revisionist History Presents: The Limits of Power
Malcolm has been writing about race and policing for a very long time, going back to the killing of Amadou Diallo in 1999. Sometimes, it is useful to take a…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe wrote the classic "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" (made famous by Elvis Costello), produced one of the UK's first punk…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell is one of the most important Southern voices in music today. He started writing and releasing his own songs in 2007, after a stint with the Drive…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
PREVIEW: Against the Rules Season 2
Previewing the first episode of Against the Rules Season 2 by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side): It wasn’t that long ago that coaches…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Tame Impala
Rick Rubin talks to Tame Impala's Kevin Parker about his newest release, The Slow Rush, and his creative process. Kevin shares key influences on some Tame…
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Drive-By Truckers
Drive-By Truckers play music from and talk about their twelfth album, The Unraveling. The band of Alabamans—represented here by Mike Cooley and Patterson…