Henry Rollins

See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Occupy America Does music have the power to cause real change? Several times in my life I have been asked this question. In a feeble effort to be humorous, I answered that if music had the power to stop a war, then the music......

KCRW Broadcast #138 for Saturday, October 29, 2011 Fanatics! Tonight is our last Damned album spin. It's a great one. Strawberries was the band's fifth album and the last one with Captain Sensible for a long time......

See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Occupy America I have spent well over half of the last 30 years living on the road, all over the world. The two major constants in this time have been music and sleep deprivation. I spend several days at a time without enough sleep......

See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! A Modest Proposal: Occupy Music Festivals My editor contacted me the other day and asked if I had an opinion on the Occupy protests that are growing daily all over America. Opinion? Moi? Don't get me started. Well, OK, start me up. I was......

KCRW BROADCAST #136 for Saturday, October 15, 2011 Fanatics! Welcome to weekend three of our October Damned Fest! Tonight we warm up the pot with an hour of peerless jams. Then, in the second hour, we rock the third Damned album, Machine Gun Etiquette. MGE marked a radical change for......

I have many traditions and rituals. None of them is based in reality, but none of them is based in superstition. Many of them are based in music. All I can say is Fanatic is as Fanatic does. There are certain records that I put away after a certain time......

KCRW BROADCAST #135 for Saturday, October 8 Fanatics! I am in Washington DC at the moment. Engineer X and I taped this show for you from our small studio set up. What we have here tonight is yet another great gathering of tunes that will not only make the weekend......

See also "People Who Pirate Music Are Assholes" Yesterday, I met up with a longtime pal, a very creative man named Alex Winter. Many know him from the Bill & Ted's films; he's the guy who's not Keanu Reeves. Alex stays extremely busy shooting everything from advertisements to documentaries. Several......

KCRW BROADCAST #134 for Saturday, October 1, 2011 Fanatics! And so we begin the month of October. My personal favorite month of the year. This month, we are lucky enough to have five Saturday nights. Taking advantage of this, we will be playing the first five Damned albums in their......

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Free Is Not Cool I have just wrapped one of the better days this year. It only finished several minutes ago, as midnight draws near. I met up with Ian MacKaye at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Seventh Street in downtown......