{"id":34341,"date":"2026-08-09T10:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34341"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:07:34","slug":"henry-rollins-announces-coming-of-age-memoir-bait-dog-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34341","title":{"rendered":"Henry Rollins announces coming-of-age memoir, &#8216;Bait Dog Boy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/henry-rollins\">Henry Rollins<\/a> has announced a new memoir about his challenging childhood and early life, to be titled <i>Bait Dog Boy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The book will focus on the former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/black-flag\">Black Flag<\/a>\u00a0frontman\u2019s difficult upbringing in Washington, D.C., a time in which he moved between his parents and\u00a0came into contact with\u00a0abusive and unreliable adults.<\/p>\n<p>It will go on to cover his meeting with Ian MacKaye, who would go on to\u00a0front\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/minor-threat\">Minor Threat<\/a>, and how their mutual discovery of punk changed their lives and gave them a way out.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bait Dog Boy\u00a0<\/i>will be published on March 2 next year via Random House in the US and Little, Brown in the UK. Fans can pre-order their copy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/817776\/bait-dog-boy-by-henry-rollins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The publishers have said:\u00a0\u201cWhat happens when a child grows up in an almost total vacuum of love? That was the reality for Henry Rollins, pioneering punk\u00a0frontman\u00a0of the seminal groups Black Flag and Rollins Band, who came of age in an environment\u00a0seemingly determined\u00a0to break him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rise Above\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDUYCyajDcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, Rollins tells the story he spent most of his life trying to avoid, taking us through his childhood and adolescence \u2013 from a volatile Washington, D.C., childhood spent shuffling between indifferent parents, to his encounters with a seemingly endless parade of abusive adults, to his eventual meeting with Ian MacKaye, and their ultimate discovery of punk rock, which would become a lifeline. Rollins tells what it was like to live a life colored by the experience of constantly absorbing pain, like a bait dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The memoir\u2019s title refers to Rollins\u2019 description of absorbing pain like a bait dog. \u201cI have no desire to be a survivor,\u201d he has written. \u201cI\u2019d rather accept, absorb, adapt, fight and break that which seeks to break me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rollins has self-published a number of memoirs in the past, beginning with 1994\u2019s <i>Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag<\/i>, which went on to win a Grammy for its spoken-word version.<\/p>\n<p>The musician first fronted the D.C. hardcore band State\u00a0Of\u00a0Alert before joining Black Flag in 1981. When they\u00a0split\u00a0in 1986, he founded his own label and publishing company and formed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/rollins-band\">Rollins Band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/henry-rollins-and-ian-mackaye-unearth-and-release-lost-album-by-the-cramps-3947946\">Rollins and MacKaye unearthed the previously unreleased 1977 album \u2018Gravest Gravy\u2019 by The Cramps<\/a>. 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