Henry Rollins

On Feb. 13, through no fault of my own, I turned 50. If I wanted to, I could relegate myself to the "Back in my day, we used to..." shelf and limit myself to the 10 albums that allow me to cement myself irrevocably into my past and preclude myself......

KCRW BROADCAST #102 for Saturday, Feb. 19. Fanatics! Tonight we say happy birthday to one Tony Iommi, guitarist for the mighty Black Sabbath! We start each hour with a track featuring the giant axeman's greatness. If you look over our list of tracks for tonight, you will see that we......

This week, I am in freezing New York City for five shows. It's been going great so far. I used to live here in the '90s. I am sure many of you have visited. If you have not, you should. Actually, you'd better. Everyone should. Of all the cities I......

As the deadline for this week's column drew nearer, I decided to put myself in a situation I would have to write myself out of. The idea started as "three bands that avoided the sophomore slump" with a follow-up to their debut album. Several came to mind. I decided to......

Last week I was at El Compadre, sitting across from my editor, one Gustavo Turner. He handed me an Amoeba Records bag and said the contents was a gift that he hoped I would like. I reached in and pulled out an LP by the Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla......

It's been an interesting week since we last got together, hasn't it? I don't know about you but I am an immovable object when it comes to optimism. Allow me to explain. No matter what bad news comes our way, I still think things are getting better. It can be,......

Never the one to be the drag at a party, I only say this because I think I am not the only one whose normally high spirits are somewhat dampened from the complete awfulness of the recent tragedy in Tucson, AZ. There is no need here to go through the......