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Henry Rollins

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Q&A: Allo Darlin's Elizabeth Morris On Rejecting "Twee," The UK Indie Scene, And Singing Along With Weezer

    This May, for the sixth year running, New York will once more be treated to the NYC Popfest, a lovingly curated sugar-rush of indie fizz that brings bands from all corners of the globe—and not just Sweden!—to celebrate a musical lineage that traces itself back to names like Sarah, Factor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Live: L'Arc-En-Ciel Land At Madison Square Garden

    L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

  • Music

    January 18, 2012

    California Demise: Tyler, the Creator and EMA Feel the Bad Vibes

    L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 5, 2011

    Henry Rollins in Conversation with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

    L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Live: Getting The Warm And Fuzzies With Dinosaur Jr.

    Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Off Terminal 5 Thursday, June 23 Better than: You and your friends sitting around, telling each other how much you appreciate each other. Keith Morris is a founding member of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks, the co-author of a song called "World Up My Ass," and a pi ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 25, 2011

    Free Will Astrology: May 25-31, 2011

    Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Off Terminal 5 Thursday, June 23 Better than: You and your friends sitting around, telling each other how much you appreciate each other. Keith Morris is a founding member of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks, the co-author of a song called "World Up My Ass," and a pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Week in Review: Weezy Freed

    Welcome to my life, Weezy.​So Lil Wayne is finally a free man. Perhaps a lonely free man, but a free man nonetheless. It's been a hell of a two weeks for the law around here, in all honesty. After last week's barrage of club closings, this week brought news of yet more: 171 Lombardy was raided ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Henry Rollins Visits The Cake Shop: "You Hear Laughter Because To These People, I'm Old and in the Way"

    ​Most people, of course, have long since made up their minds about former Black Flag frontman, spoken word poet, and Bad Boys II actor Henry Rollins. Those who haven't would be advised to watch the below clip (which looks to have been shot a while ago), in which Rollins wanders into the Lower ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 8, 2010

    Broken Social Scene+the Sea & Cake

    ​Most people, of course, have long since made up their minds about former Black Flag frontman, spoken word poet, and Bad Boys II actor Henry Rollins. Those who haven't would be advised to watch the below clip (which looks to have been shot a while ago), in which Rollins wanders into the Lower ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2010

    DETROIT ROCK CITY

    Two tributes to ’80s Michigan hardcore

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    This Week in the Voice: The Tilda Swinton Moment

    ​How time flies, right? Eighteen years ago, Sally Potter had her breakout as the writer-director of Orlando, which also starred then-breakout Tilda Swinton. Now, for this week's Village Voice cover story, Melissa Anderson talks with Potter and Swinton about Orlando about their continuing caree ... More >>

  • Music

    July 20, 2010

    49 Years of Wisdom From Wayne Coyne

    The Flaming Lips frontman would rather make shitty art with good people than the inverse

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Ted Leo: The Extra Long, Occasionally Meandering, Entirely Unexpurgated Interview

    Yup, that's an Amebix t-shirt. Photo by Mark Hewko​This weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to talk about the rumors of his impending retirement ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 8, 2010

    Bison B.C.

    Yup, that's an Amebix t-shirt. Photo by Mark Hewko​This weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to talk about the rumors of his impending retirement ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2010

    Ratt

    Yup, that's an Amebix t-shirt. Photo by Mark Hewko​This weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to talk about the rumors of his impending retirement ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 6, 2010

    URINE FOR A GOOD TIME

    Sorry, we couldn't resist

  • Voice Choices

    March 16, 2010

    OH, CANADA!

    See what's new in Canadian cinema

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Q&A: Henry Rollins Talks With Ex-MTV-VJ Iann Robinson About Why Black Flag Won't Reunite and Why He'd Rather Be 49 Than 20

    Musician/actor/talker/personality Henry Rollins has been in touch Iann Robinson for years, long before Robinson's days as the MTV VJ Horatio Sanz once spoofed on Saturday Night Live. Since Henry Rollins headlines Irving Plaza tonight and tomorrow, we asked Robinson to get his old acquaintance on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Week in Review: Michael Bolton is... JACK THE RIPPER!

    Hey look, it's Michael Bolton. Photo by the intrepid Rob Harvilla.​In the week we attended a cocktail party at Michael Bolton's house, we learned that the god has a Kanye platinum plaque on his wall and the finest Scrabble board Toys R Us sells on his mantle. Our guided tour of New York's most ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    STILL THIRSTY, NOT MISERABLE

    Black Flag's main man plants it in NY again

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Henry Rollins Meets a Woman in a Black Flag Shirt Who Doesn't Know Who Black Flag Is

    ​Henry Rollins files from Jakarta for Vanity Fair: "At one point, I met a young couple who recognized me and we stopped to talk. Around that time, a female vendor walked up to us wearing a most interesting T-shirt. The couple got the irony of the situation and explained to the woman why I was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    The Great Chuck Biscuits Death Hoax of Aught Nine

    The three on the right: Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, and Chuck Biscuits, elusive even in Black Flag. Photo by Dave Markey.​As harsh as 2009 has been for celebrity deaths, it's been an even harsher year for Internet-based fake celebrity deaths. As of June, the real-to-fake death ratio has approach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Yes In My Backyard: Download Dinowalrus' "Electric Car, Gas Guitar"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Ted Gordon​Brooklyn ecstasy-noize troupe Dinowalrus crawl out of the teeny-tiny opening Animal Collective and Black Dice have made for fluttery textures, ambient suckscapes, and incoherent blare-chan ... More >>

  • Music

    August 25, 2009

    Live From Nine Inch Nails' Retirement Party

    In praise of Trent Reznor, the nihilist-turned-populist, waving goodbye

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Interview: Janeane Garofalo on 24, Henry Rollins, and Her Inevitable Run for Junior Senator of Minnesota

    "When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything." Janeane Garofalo is known for biting standup, stints on SNL, The Larry Sanders Show and The West Wing, and her pioneering contributions to Air Americ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

    .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Bad Brains to Be Embalmed Once More On Film

    Given that, pace Obama, we're already in a rearguard fight against the insanely ubiquitous culture of our elders--the Rolling Stones, marijuana, VW buses--it's more than a bit demoralizing to see our cultural heroes aspire to the same plinth status. Above is a trailer for Bad Brains: The Movie, wh ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 19, 2008

    Henry Rollins

    Given that, pace Obama, we're already in a rearguard fight against the insanely ubiquitous culture of our elders--the Rolling Stones, marijuana, VW buses--it's more than a bit demoralizing to see our cultural heroes aspire to the same plinth status. Above is a trailer for Bad Brains: The Movie, wh ... More >>

  • Film

    July 17, 2007

    Punk'd

    From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2007

    Guitar Hero 2 vs. Def Jam Icon

    From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2006

    Jay-Z is Afraid to Fight

    From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2006

    Things I Learned Watching American Hardcore

    From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?

  • Music

    September 19, 2006

    Out of Step, Out of Time

    Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore

  • People

    August 30, 2005

    Animalize

    Talking with John Mikl Thor, rock gladiator

  • Music

    August 9, 2005

    Second-Generation Punks

    The Willowz make songs that sound like a place, their styles signs along the road

  • Screens

    June 28, 2005

    screens

    The Willowz make songs that sound like a place, their styles signs along the road

  • Art

    November 30, 2004

    Remote Patrol

    The Willowz make songs that sound like a place, their styles signs along the road

  • Music

    November 9, 2004

    Every Hung's a Superhero, Every Hung's a Captain Kirk

    The Willowz make songs that sound like a place, their styles signs along the road

  • Books

    June 5, 2001

    DIY or Die

    The Willowz make songs that sound like a place, their styles signs along the road

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