Ilan Rubin

Ilan Rubin

Ilan Rubin (born July 7, 1988) is the current drummer for the band Nine Inch Nails.

Biography

Early life

Rubin began playing drums at the age of 8, when he discovered his Father's 1968 Silver Sparkle Ludwig drum kit set up in the garage. After three months of "toying" with the kit, he had taught himself to play and was jamming with his older brothers and by the age of 9 was ready to play for F.o.N., a band that eventually would do three stints on the Vans Warped Tour, where, in addition to playing with F.o.N. Ilan would fill-in on drums with bands such as NOFX. In 1999, F.o.N. opened Woodstock on the "Emerging Artist Stage" and, as a result, 11-year-old Ilan gained entry into the Guiness Book of World Records as the youngest musician to ever play on a Woodstock stage.

Still at the age of 11, he submitted a video to Modern Drummer Magazine, taken of him doing a solo during an F.o.N. performance, which was picked by the magazine as the winning entry in its "Best Undiscovered Drummer Under the Age of 18" contest. The winner of the 18-and-over category came from Argentina, and both drummers were invited to perform at the 2000 Modern Drummer Festival, by which time Ilan had turned 12. He has taken lessons from Blink-182's drummer Travis Barker and David Uosikkinen, drummer of famed '80's band, The Hooters. He is also an accomplished guitarist and classical pianist.

Career

Prior to Lostprophets

Immediately prior to working with Lostprophets, Ilan was the drummer for the band Denver Harbor, which included his older brother, Aaron, as bassist, who had played guitar in F.o.N.; as well as 2 ex-members of the punk band Fenix*TX Denver Harbor was dropped from their label 1 year after their only full length album, Scenic, was released in 2004 but not before the band did a few round-trip tours of the United States and one week in Japan with a re-united Fenix TX.

Lostprophets

Ilan was the drummer for the Welsh band Lostprophets (although he is American). He replaced Mike Chiplin, founding member and original drummer, who quit the band in June 2005. Before finding Rubin, Lostprophets hired session drummer Josh Freese to record the tracks on Liberation Transmission. Then, after they hired Ilan, he played the remaining two tracks on Liberation Transmission: "For All These Times Son, For All These Times" and Everybody's Screaming!!!". The drummer on the demos for this period are unclear with all tracks, depending on the time the demos were made, potentially being recorded by either ex-drummer Mike Chiplin, frontman Ian Watkins (who occasionally plays drums in demos) or Ilan. Either Rubin or Freese may have recorded the B-Side, "Every Song", which comes from the album sessions. Rubin has, however, been touring with the band and appears in the videos for Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast), A Town Called Hypocrisy, Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time) and 4:AM Forever.

The New Regime

Ilan started a solo project to work on during Lostprophet's downtime called The New Regime. The announcement started from an obscure video on various websites, including MySpace, YouTube, and Buzznet. Buzznet confirmed it was the side project of a drummer from a famous band. A few days later, Ilan announced it was him. He recorded 8 songs and planned on writing and recording two more for an album release on iTunes. His debut album, Coup was released on November 18th.

Nine Inch Nails

On November 15, 2008, Trent Reznor announced via www.nin.com that Ilan will be joining industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails as their drummer once Josh Freese leaves the band in late 2008.

Equipment

Drums and Percussions

• • Orange County Drum and Percussion and Zildjian Cymbals:
  • OCDP - Black and White Barbershop Spiral Acrylic, or Black Sparkle
  • 13x10" Rack Tom
  • 16x16" Floor Tom
  • 18x14" Floor Tom
  • 26x16" Bass Drum
  • 14x8" OCDP Black Beauty Shell Snare
  • 15" A New Beat Hi-Hats
  • 22" K Custom Ride
  • 20" A Custom Medium Crash
  • 20" Z Custom Medium Crash
  • 20" A Custom China
  • Vater Rock Sticks
  • DW Hardware (5000 Series for Bass Drum Pedals and 9000 Series for Hi-Hats Stand)
  • Remo Drum Heads

Electric Guitar

• • Gibson Les Paul Junior Single Cut

The New Regime Live Lineup

• Ilan Rubin: Vocals, Piano, Guitar
• Chris Lewis (Denver Harbor/Fenix TX): Guitar, Vocals
• Mike Frey (...students/The Transit War): Bass, Vocals
• Hayden Scott (Sub Rosa): Drums

Discography

• Extended Play: Denver Harbor
• Scenic: Denver Harbor
• Liberation Transmission: Lostprophets (only drummed on For All These Times Son, for All These Times and Everybody's Screaming!!!)
• Coup: The New Regime
• 4th Lostprophets Studio Album With Lostprophets

External links

• Lostprophets Official Website
• Lostprophets Myspace
• Denver Harbour Myspace
• Zildjian Official Website
• The New Regime Official Website
• The New Regime Forum
• Coup Release Announcement
• Nine Inch Nails announcement
• Interview with Ilan Rubin by Drum Channel, Part 1 of 3
• Interview with Ilan Rubin by Drum Channel, Part 2 of 3
• Interview with Ilan Rubin by Drum Channel, Part 3 of 3

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