Henry Rollins

KCRW Broadcast #178 for Saturday, August 25, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Subterranean 
Homesick Blues Fanatics! I hope you dug last week's pledge drive madness. We try to make our meager two hours as fun as possible. We prepped the show for weeks and put quite a bit......

Perhaps this has happened to you in the last few weeks. Your living environment is hot enough to keep you from sleeping all that long or all that deeply. You wake up at an incredibly wrong time, somewhere on the other side of midnight. You stick your head out the......

Since I last wrote you, I have been living in hotels, hitting festival stages and spending a lot of time in airports. I did two shows at the massive Wacken Open Air, a heavy metal festival in Germany. Eighty thousand metal maniacs live together for a few days every year......

KCRW Broadcast #177 for Saturday, August 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Some Music Really Does Suck Fanatics! In Scotland tonight. Getting ready for night #2 at the Edinburgh Festival. I will fly on Saturday back to Los Angeles in time to grab my gear and hit the......

It has become a ritual. Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. In between I try to do shows wherever I can, to avoid nights off. This time around, it's a brief bit of work, less......

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and......

A few Saturdays ago, I paid tribute on my radio show to a band called The Ruts. The band's vocalist, Malcolm Owen, died of a heroin overdose on July 14, 1980, at age 26. Since the anniversary happened to land on Saturday, when my show airs, I decided that lots......

KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers......

In 1994, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was signed into law by President Clinton. The law "sunsetted" 10 years later and never came back. Firearms that had taken a retail "timeout" were back in play. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people went out and legally acquired some serious freedom delivery systems......

KCRW Broadcast #174 for Saturday, July 21, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Miles Davis, Cool on a Postage Stamp Fanatics! It's another Saturday night of great music! Sadly, we lost the great John Lord of Deep Purple recently, so we will start out tonight's show with some prime......