Henry Rollins has released the second episode of his long-form radio show The Cool Quarantine on Californian radio station KCRW after launching his premiere four-hour episode earlier this month.
This time around, the former Black Flag frontman has blessed punk fans with a rare Bad Brains live performance from 1985 and John Cale’s rejected mixes for The Stooges. There’s also a bunch of tracks from Mexican garage punks Le Butcherettes, English post-punk group The Fall, dancehall artist Tenor Saw, and more.
Once again, Rollins also promises there’ll again be plenty of “stories from the last century,” saying: “I was hoping there would be enough interest to be able to make another one of these for you.”
“We will do our best to keep them interesting and worthwhile as we continue to endure during these very interesting and trying times,” he continued. “The changes to our normal routines haven’t been easy on any of us but we have to hang in there!”
The series kicked off in early April, with Rollins revealing he’s been hoping to create such a show for several years.
“The first is that 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.”
“For many years, I’ve had this idea for a long-form show,” he said. “I mean really long-form. Like hours. To do it terrestrially would be difficult because I would be crowding other shows out. But if it was online, hey. It’s as many songs as I want, language issues are not a factor, and if anyone gets bored, they can just turn it off or mark the time they checked out and resume later.”
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While there’s no word yet on set release dates for future episodes, Rollins did add that he’s “already working on the next one.”
Check out episode two of The Cool Quarantine here.
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