Beastie Boys Reunite With Original Producer Rick Rubin on ‘Broken Record’ Podcast (Listen)
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorYou know how you can get together with an old friend you haven’t seen for years, and it’s like you were just together yesterday? It happens on the TK podcast, when Beastie Boys Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz reunite with Rick Rubin, who was their friend, producer and cowriter of their epochal 1986 debut album “Licensed to Ill.”And since Horovitz and Rubin hadn’t spoken in more than 20 years (not out of anger, but just because they simply hadn’t), it not only has the joyfulness of reuniting with an old friend, it almost amounts to an oral history of the group’s early years: touring with Run-DMC and Madonna, going to the legendary NYC nightclubs of the 1980s, Rubin’s infamous bubble machine