Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins: Beauty and Sadness in Uzbekistan

11-28-14 Los Angeles International Airport: If I get the odd month relatively free of obligation, I will usually try to get out of America and travel. It is a huge part of my life. “Out there” is where I learn a lot of big lessons. For me, being in unfamiliar......
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Fanatics! We Are Not Slowing Down for the Holidays

RADIO BROADCAST #297 12–07–14 Fanatic! Here we go into December! Engineer X and I have been working for weeks on the shows for this month. Not high on concept as much as just trying to keep it interesting and excellent. Obviously, whatever Christmas means to you might have you on......
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Henry Rollins: Be Thankful Every Day, Not Just on Thanksgiving

Transitioning from the Thanksgiving holiday to the “Christmas season,” I have always found it interesting to watch retailers attempt to shift gears between two different retail campaigns. Draped in a cloak of not-all-that-easy-to-believe benevolence, they try to strike a balance between goodness and the desire to bring you to the......
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Fanatics! It's Always Thanksgiving When the Music Is On

RADIO BROADCAST #29611–30–14 Fanatic! It’s the last show of this month. I hope you have dug them all thus far. Our December shows are almost all done and they’re great. I know that you might be on the move during the holidays, so hopefully, you will have a chance to......
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Henry Rollins: The Shangri-Las Were Totally Heavy

For the last few days, I have been living in hotels, spending nights onstage and seeing up to three airports a day. I had two shows in Iowa, Des Moines and Iowa City, and one in Stoughton, Wisconsin. They were my last three shows of the year and were to......
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Fanatics! Feast Your Ears on Fugazi's First Demo

RADIO BROADCAST #29511–23–14 Fanatic! Another week, another great show. You are perhaps baffled at how the hell we keep doing it. You probably spend hours and hours, walking on green patches of land, looking deep into your coffee cup, shaking your fist at the moon! Well maybe not, but thanks......
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Henry Rollins: Politics Isn't a Sporting Event

A few days before the midterm elections, I got this unsigned email: “How are you going to feel when the Republicans take the Senate on Tuesday, just like they took the House because of your POS hero Obama? Arrogance and incompetence by that fucktard Oliar led to this so thanks......
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Fanatics! A Full Hour of the Excellent Utech Records

RADIO BROADCAST #29411–16–14 Fanatic! Thank you for reading these brief notes. Tonight we have a very special show for you. In our first hour, we rock a cool mix and then in hour number two, we listen to tracks from artists on the excellent Utech label out of Wisconsin. One......
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Fanatics! A Soundtrack for Another Strange November in L.A.

RADIO BROADCAST #29311–09–14 Fanatic! Hey, thanks for reading these notes. No matter how many times I say on the show that these notes exist, people still write and ask what song was playing at whatever time. It’s all here, Fanatic! As I write these notes, I am listening to the......