Veteran punk singer and media personality Henry Rollins is taking his weekly radio program broadcasted on Los Angeles-based KCRW to the boundless frontiers of the Internet with a new, long-form format announced this week.
To be titled, The Cool Quarantine, the online show will now free Rollins of the FCC compliances and time constraints (episodes will run up to four hours in length) which come with traditional terrestrial radio programming and will hear the music aficionado play entire albums to go with his usual entertaining rhetoric.
“I wanted to make a show that felt like those great hangouts you might have done where you and some friends descend on someone’s house, everyone brings some records and the jam session goes and goes,” Rollins said in a post published to the KCRW website on Tuesday. “We will be playing different songs from different bands of course but we’ll also be listening to entire albums, EPs, and singles. At four hours, this is lonnnnnnnnng-form programming!”
Rollins went on to give examples of some of the audio he’d love to share with his listeners including a live Cramps track from 1979 recorded by Ian MacKaye (the first cassette he ever copied) and a live Led Zeppelin track from a concert he attended personally.
Head to KCRW to listen to the first episode.
Introducing Cool Quarantine with @henryrollins, free of the constraints you might be accustomed to on regular terrestrial radio.
Hang out with Henry for a few hours for some deep cuts you won’t find anywhere else:https://t.co/b1BGDDOrc8
— KCRW (@kcrw) April 7, 2020