Henry Rollins
13 articles
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Various Artists: Radio Tokyo Tapes, Vol. 3 (PVC); Dave Van Ronk: Going Back To Brooklyn (Reckless)
Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, July 1985
NOW THAT Bob Dylan is establishing himself as a born-again rocker, why shouldn't the new wave stage a folk revival? But listening to Radio Tokyo ...
Henry Rollins: Mean Fiddler, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 1 October 1988
THE GRAND old illustrated man of US hardcore grips the stage with his toes and hangs ten. Henry Rollins has just rolled into town again ...
Spoken Word: Jello Biafria, Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins
Report and Interview by Martin Aston, The Independent, Winter 1989
ONCE UPON a time, people took to the stage without the blast of music behind them, and people would take them seriously. Poetry and the ...
Henry Rollins: Don't Get Even, Get Mad
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, September 1992
He wants to kill policemen. He is obsessed by his father. He dosen't have a girlfriend and his best friend is dead. "Either I write ...
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, 1993
HENRY ROLLINS IS the prime example of a uniquely American phenomenon, the punk turned poet (see Lydia Lunch, Exene Cervenka, etc.). ...
The Beastie Boys, Rollins Band: Roseland Ballroom New York NY
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1993
THIS PAIRING wasn't as odd as it seemed, because the Beastie Boys have created ― or at least mobilized ― a new kind of fan. ...
Henry Rollins: The Bright Stuff
Interview by Mark Mordue, Juice, April 1993
As American as Apple Pie, saluting the flag, street violence, psychopaths, racism, guns, incest, overdoses, police brutality, urban decay and spiritual horror. Mark Mordue goes ...
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, July 1994
IN AN abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Toronto, Henry Rollins is getting beaten up. A huge, Rasputin-like figure (monk's garb, frankly Messianic face-fungus) throws ...
Charles Manson: The Man That You Fear
Retrospective by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 7 August 1999
Thirty years ago this week, followers of CHARLES MANSON committed a series of brutal murders that changed US culture forever. On the anniversary of the ...
Henry Rollins: LSE Old Theatre, London ****
Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 30 November 1999
SOMEWHERE UP there, reclining on a celestial tobacco cloud, Bill Hicks must cast a rueful eye towards the one-man stand-up multi-gym that is Henry Rollins. ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, February 2000
HIS REPUTATION most definitely precedes him. The press's perception of Henry Rollins has always been somewhat fractious. Journalists have always been suspicious, and on occasion ...
Henry Rollins: "Playing your hits is living a lie"
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, March 2012
Punk pugilist turned spoken-word turbo-philosopher, Henry Rollins puts the wanting world in a headlock ...
Why Vinyl Matters: Henry Rollins
Book Excerpt by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, 'Why Vinyl Matters' (ACC Editions), 2017
HENRY ROLLINS WAS barely out of his teens when he joined the legendary punk band Black Flag. Since parting with the band in 1986, Rollins ...
see also Black Flag
back to LIBRARY
