Henry Rollins

KCRW BROADCAST #110 for Saturday, April 16. Fanatics! It is Record Store Day. It is also Ian MacKaye's birthday. Today, Ian hits the deck at forty-nine years of age. I believe he will be at the Coachella Festival this weekend so we send our greetings and congrats from here. Tonight......

Who Put the Bomp? Recently I wrote my editor, one Gustavo Turner, and asked if he had any ideas he wanted me to write about. Gustavo sent me an interesting list that I will no doubt be pounding away at soon. The last idea on the list, which he said......

KCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all about, a frenetic......

KCRW BROADCAST #108 for Saturday, April 2. Fanatics! The weather is warming up and we are warming up right along with it. Tonight, a mix that I think you're going to like. It's a lot of our frequent visitors, some who we have not visited for awhile. It all works......

Spring Time for Henry You remember several days ago when we all turned our clocks an hour forward. That time change rings a Pavlovian bell for me. Seasonal change plays a large part in how I think, what I think about and definitely what I listen to and read......

Michigan's Original Insane Posse On Saturday, March 19, I will attempt to melt your radio with a show I have wanted to do for a long time. At 6 p.m. on 89.9 FM KCRW, we will go scorcho for two solid hours of sonic perfection. I have been listening to......

KCRW BROADCAST #105 for Saturday, March 12. Fanatics! Reporting to you from Los Angeles. Still walking off the jet lag and everything's late but hopefully you will have a chance to see these notes before the show. We open tonight's show with an AIC track in respect of the band's......

Listening to Ramones in Tehran Hello from beautiful Australia. I am presently in Melbourne to play a few shows and hit some local record stores, of course. This will be my twenty-sixth or twenty-seventh visit here since my first one in 1989. Upon landing here all those years ago, I......

The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of L.A. Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fi...

The Underground 
Is Alive and Well Somewhere in the mid-'80s, I noticed a change happening in the American music scene. Small bands from the clubs were getting airplay on college and other independent-minded stations. Certainly, in previous years, thanks to visionaries like Rodney Bingenheimer and his show on KROQ-FM here......