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Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye ( / məˈkaɪ /; [1] born April 16, 1962) is an American musician. Active since 1979, he is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C. -based independent record label, and the frontman of hardcore punk band Minor Threat and post-hardcore band Fugazi.
Ian MacKaye is known for a lot of things, his bands: Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens, Teen Idles; founding and running the uber indie/alternative Dischord Records; being the inadvertent creator and leader for the Straight Edge movement; someone with fierce, occasionally outspoken, political beliefs and a passion and dedication for all things ...
Sep 27, 2019 · In this interview, Ian MacKaye—frontman of influential bands Minor Threat and Fugazi—describes punk as the “free space”: where new ideas and creative expressions are welcomed and...
Ian Mackaye founded Dischord Records as a teenager in 1980 with partner Jeff Nelson. Their original intent was simply to release a single to document their recently defunct band, Teen Idles.
Apr 16, 2014 · Best known as the frontman of Minor Threat and Fugazi and as the co-founder of Washington DC's influential Dischord record label, Ian MacKaye has an iconic reputation within the punk rock world, his name a by-word for uncompromised integrity, independent thought and principled self-determination.
Feb 16, 2022 · It was easy for Fugazi’s offering to get lost in an avalanche of breakout albums in 1991, and it did: “Nirvana’s Nevermind blew us out of the water,” MacKaye notes, citing one of that year’s best-known bombshells, released shortly after Steady Diet.
May 29, 2012 · Ian MacKaye is a renowned musician and guitarist, known for being the singer of pioneer hardcore band Minor Threat, the inadvertent founder of the Straight Edge movement, and one of the...
Nov 26, 2020 · Punk pioneer Ian MacKaye’s proudest guitar moments say a lot about his philosophy and aesthetic for the instrument.
Oct 31, 2013 · Thirty years after launching his music career, what does it mean for Ian MacKaye to be a punk rocker?
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