Bea Kristi’s third album, co-produced by Rick Rubin, deploys a more subdued, acoustic palette to render an accurate portrait of early adulthood. Usually, Kristi spits it out. On “This Is How ...

Rick Rubin is a healthy reminder of the danger in relying on superficial impressions. He’s a bearish man with long, flowing hair, a bushy beard and ever-present dark sunglasses. See him at a ...

On August 27, 1993, Rick Rubin held a funeral for an adjective in a morbidly tongue-in-cheek affair at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.