Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Henry Rollins
- The best of 2.13.61 Publications
- A Dull Roar What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006
- Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag
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Film & TV
Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Henry Rollins (born Henry Lawrence Garfield; February 13, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After performing for the short-lived Washington D.C.-based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until early 1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins soon…
Known for
- Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self2025
- Uma Retrospectiva Definitiva de Ween — Self2025
- Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos — Self2025
- Hendrie — Self2024
- We Lost Our Human — Bacon Witch / Bumblebee Dad (voice)2023
- WINO: The Documentary2023
- Royal Crackers — President (voice)2023
- Music — Ebo's Neighbor2021
- Analog Love — Himself2021
- Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. — himself2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 88,621
- Total plays
- 1,294,680
Tags
spoken wordpunkcomedyrockhardcore
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American Grammy Award-winning alternative rock singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987. Critic Steve Huey decribes Rollins as "a post-punk renaissance man . <a href="ht
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,430x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,178x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 14,485x
- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
· 1996 · cited 13,931x
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Key facts
- Born
- Henry Lawrence Garfield , ( 1961-02-13 ) February 13, 1961 (age 65) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Genres
- Hardcore punk alternative metal spoken word
- Occupations
- Singer writer actor speaker presenter author comedian activist
- Works
- Full list of works
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Label
- 2.13.61
- Formerly of
- Black Flag Rollins Band State of Alert
- Website
- henryrollins .com
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Key dates
- Born
- 13 February 1961
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- American University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- agnosticism
Article
Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, comedian, and presenter. After performing in the short-lived hardcore punk band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986. Following the band's breakup, he established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, and formed the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 to 2003 and in 2006.
Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show and 120 Minutes. He had recurring dramatic roles in the second season of Sons of Anarchy as A.J. Weston, in the final two seasons of the animated series The Legend of Korra as Zaheer, and has also had roles in several films. He has campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including the promotion of gay rights, World Hunger Relief, the West Memphis Three, and an end to all war. He currently hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia, and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly.
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