HENRY ROLLINS To Release New Memoir 'Bait Dog Boy' In March 2027

Iconic BLACK FLAG frontman and legendary punk musician Henry Rollins will release a new memoir, "Bait Dog Boy", on March 2, 2027 via Penguin Random House.

The 304-page book is described by the publisher as "a searing memoir of a broken childhood and the hope of escaping it."

What happens when a child grows up in an almost total vacuum of love? That was the reality for Henry Rollins, pioneering punk frontman of the seminal groups BLACK FLAG and ROLLINS BAND, who came of age in an environment seemingly determined to break him. For the first time, Rollins tells the story he spent most of his life trying to avoid, taking us through his childhood and adolescence — 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.

"I have no desire to be a survivor," Rollins writes in the book. "I'd rather accept, absorb, adapt, fight and break that which seeks to break me — to be that which remains."

Told in Rollins's unmistakably blunt, brutal, and acerbic voice, "Bait Dog Boy" is a coming-of-age story with the teeth and truth of a great punk anthem. It's an unforgettable tale of what it means to not quite fit in anywhere, except on stage: a memoir as dynamic and singular as its subject.

Rollins has toured the world as a spoken-word artist, as frontman for both ROLLINS BAND and BLACK FLAG and as a solitary traveler with insatiable curiosity, favoring road-less-traveled locales in places such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Siberia, North Korea, South Sudan and Iran.

When he's not traveling, Rollins prefers a to keep a relentless schedule full of work, with gigs as an actor, author, DJ, voice-over artist and TV show host to name a few of the roles that keep him occupied.

As a spoken-word artist, Rollins regularly performs at colleges and theaters worldwide and has released a number of spoken-word recordings. His album "Get In The Van" won the Grammy for "Best Spoken Word Album" for 1995. As an actor, he has appeared in "The Chase", "Johnny Mnemonic", "Heat" and David Lynch's film "Lost Highway".