Ian MacKaye
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Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well as The Evens.
He is a co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label.
A key figure in the development of hardcore punk and an enthusiastic promoter of an independent-minded, do it yourself punk ethic, MacKaye also works as a producer, and has produced releases by Q and Not U, John Frusciante, 7 Seconds, Nation of Ulysses, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, and Rollins Band. Along with his seminal band Minor Threat, he is credited with coining the term "straight edge" to describe an ideology that eschews drug and alcohol abuse, though MacKaye has stated many times that he did not intend to turn it into a movement.
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Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well as The Evens.
He is a co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label.
A key figure in the development of hardcore punk and an enthusiastic promoter of an independent-minded, do it yourself punk ethic, MacKaye also works as a producer, and has produced releases by Q and Not U, John Frusciante, 7 Seconds, Nation of Ulysses, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, and Rollins Band. Along with his seminal band Minor Threat, he is credited with coining the term "straight edge" to describe an ideology that eschews drug and alcohol abuse, though MacKaye has stated many times that he did not intend to turn it into a movement.
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Known For
53 titles
Punk
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
American Hardcore
Bad Reputation
Punk's Not Dead
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
What Drives Us
The Obsessed: The Documentary
You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
Henry Rollins 50
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
The Tony Alva Story
Breadcrumb Trail
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
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