Following on from his candid chat with Zane Lowe for BBC Radio 1 earlier this year, another nice slice of Rick Rubin related viewing has popped up around the label’s 30th anniversary.

Want to be a hipster but not man enough to grow your own facial hair?

Well never fear as the folks at Beard Beanie have (literally) got you covered with their extensive range of knitted beard hats.

Now… we wonder if they do custom orders?

We wouldn’t say no to an instant Andrew Weatherall…
 

And would definitely be willing to pay double for ‘The Rubin’
 

Now, treat your ears to an incredible history lesson as DJ Jaguar Skills celebrates Def Jam’s 30th anniversary by expertly cramming 3 decades into a 30 minute mix. Whoa.

 

Via The Guardian

We haven’t heard from Rice for eight years, and sobbing along to songs about heartbreak hasn’t felt quite the same in all that time. It’s testament to how excited people are about this return that we are generally freaking out over all 106 seconds of My Favourite Faded Fantasy.

 

via Drowned In Sound

There was a time when a man had a beard all over his body. That was years ago of course, when the male of the species also dragged women about by the hair and used birds’ beaks to play LPs. Step forward millennia later and we no longer drag women by the barnet and the invention of the stylus has made those poor, big-beaked birds’ lives significantly easier. But the beard remains, if in a more refined form.

It’d be real easy to hate on the new Eminem track but you know what?… It is actually pretty damn great.

via The Smoking Section