Henry Rollins

Fanatics! This Sunday's Show Will Go Long

See also: Henry Rollins: Why I'm Not Playing Music Anymore RADIO BROADCAST #216 05-19-13 Fanatics. I am sitting in a Starbucks in Washington D.C. in my old neighborhood. I am on my second pass of the last few singles the Buzzcocks recorded for United Artists. I don't know why I trip on them so oft ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Why I'm Not Playing Music

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Harmony at Dischord Immediately, I would like to apologize for writing ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Harmony at Dischord

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Thinking For Myself I am writing to you from one of my favorite spots a ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Thinking For Myself

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Pride Getting the Best of Me In my line of work, one needs to be adap ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Pride Getting the Best of Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Moves to Sunday Nights I have come to the conclusion that i ... More >>

Guns and COPS HIT: Readers Respond

Henry Rollins: Dead Children in Afghanistan

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Joe Cole and American Gun Violence I use music to keep my life in che ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Joe Cole and American Gun Violence

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Editor's note: Joe Cole was a friend and roommate of Henry Rollins' as well as a roadie for Bla ... More >>

Henry Rollins: George Bush's War Is Still With Us

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: The Steubenville Rape Case Is a Failure The ten year anniversary of the invasion and ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: It's Ian MacKaye!

KCRW BROADCAST #210 04-06-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Bored In Hawaii Fanatics! I have the basic play list for tonight but will not post the songs as it's Ian MacKaye's choices and I thought it better to make the whole thing a discovery as we go. You read that right, Fanatic, Ian MacKaye will be ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Bored In Hawaii

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Day After Bowie's The Next Day I am stationed in Honolulu. It is ... More >>

Remembering Napster

Henry Rollins: Our Constitutional Rights Require Constant Vigilance

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Hardcore Nostalgia in Washington D.C. "If destruction be our lot, we ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Hardcore Nostalgia in Washington D.C.

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] It is now March. Begrudgingly, the winter is unlocking its jaws and giving way to the thaw. Co ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Football, Violence, and America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling A few Sundays back, in a roo ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Only a few short weeks into the new year and the GOP is busy. The president's recent inaugurati ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Here Comes a Regular

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please I try to get myself up and moving ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Pere Ubu and More Thin Lizzy

KCRW BROADCAST #200 01-26-13 See also: Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please Fanatics! It's amazing how great our show is tonight. Sometimes I have to stand back and marvel at how damn consistently great the music is, just how incredibly excellent week after week all of thi ... More >>

Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On I spent a large part of the afternoon at ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See Also: Henry Rollins: When It Comes to Gun Control, the Bad Guys Have Won the Day A few nig ... More >>

Henry Rollins: When It Comes to Gun Control, the Bad Guys Have Won the Day

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Of all the things that transpired last year, I want to take on the Sandy Hook shooting incident ... More >>

Henry Rollins Doesn't Smoke Marijuana. But He Has No Problem With It

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If the spread of marriage equality wasn't enough good news for you, recreational use of marijua ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Led Zeppelin, All Powerful

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Two nights ago, I was sitting in front of my speakers listening to a very clean pressing of Led ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Hats off to Washington state where, recently, hundreds of same-sex couples were legally married ... More >>

Henry Rollins: A Death in the Family

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in San Francisco. It is a Saturday night and I should have been in Los Angeles watching T ... More >>

Like He Needs More Ink

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New York City Is a Helluva a Town

KCRW Broadcast #189 for Saturday, November 10, 2012 See also: *The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans *Henry Rollins: Sandy, the Incredible Mood Swing of Mother Nature Fanatics! Tonight is a great one. I am in NYC this week, so I thought a show that was NYC-based would be just the thing ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Sandy, the Incredible Mood Swing of Mother Nature

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] 10/29/12: As I sit here in Boston on a night off, I can see Hurricane Sandy-powered sheets of ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in Washington DC right now. The time before the winner of the presidency was announced wa ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Happy Halloween

KCRW Broadcast #187 for Saturday, October 27, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Mississippi Blues Fanatics! I think this is as close as close as we're going to get to a Halloween show. If I could split myself in two, I would be onstage here in New Hampshire and also at the KCRW event ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Mississippi Blues

[Look for your weekly fix of the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] After more than three decades of touring America, this was only the third time I have been to Mi ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An All-Kill, No-Fill Show

KCRW Broadcast #186 for Saturday, October 20, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing Fanatics! Tonight we will enjoy an unbelievably cool mix of songs. The weather is cooling slightly and we will take advantage of that and unleash some deep heaviness. If you notic ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You ca ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Mississippi Blues

KCRW Broadcast #185 for Saturday, October 13, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers Fanatics! In Mississippi tonight. We thought it would be a good idea to lay some Blues on you. Blues music comes all kinds of ways and is there to be taken any way you want. If y ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] A few nights ago, we took the tour bus into the massive parking lot of a Walmart in South Dako ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: For the Cramps Fanatics

KCRW Broadcast #183 for Saturday, October 6, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America Fanatics! Hello from Ohio! Columbus, Ohio, to be exact. I thought it would be a great idea to celebrate some great Ohio bands, Ohio-themed songs and Lenny Bruce talking about Ohio! Hour one is a mix ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! How I Spend My Nights Off

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] It is a night off. I am in Boise, Idaho, sitting in the Crux, a coffeehouse on Main Street. No ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Summer Be Gone!

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] September is upon us. In its final weeks, August was staggering crookedly, profusely bleeding ... More >>

L.A. Zine Fest: Shia LaBeouf Is a Dick and Four Other Things We Learned

The world is becoming increasingly paperless, but don't tell that to the paper peddlers at last Sunday's inaugural L.A. Zine Fest, who proved that if you can doodle something clever, copy, staple and distribute -- voila -- you've got a zine. Nearly 90 DYI-ers from Gardena to Portland gathered to se ... More >>

The End of the World As We Know It

The Many Travels of Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins: The Column!

Henry Rollins: The Column!

Henry Rollins: The Column!

Henry Rollins: The Column!

Henry Rollins: The Column!

Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column!