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Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (/ m ə ˈ k aɪ /; 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. 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.
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 ...
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.
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...
Feb 16, 2022 · I spoke with singer-guitarist Ian MacKaye on 28 January about the album’s dark horse career. Oliver Sheppard: Over the years, a perception has developed around Steady Diet of Nothing , about Fugazi’s discography, where Steady Diet is often situated as a misfire after the success of Repeater the year before.
Apr 16, 2021 · Born April 16, 1962, in Washington DC, Ian MacKaye developed an early love for music thanks to the Woodstock music documentary. After spending nine months living in Palo Alto, California in 1974, MacKaye and his family returned, only to find his friends had become drug-fuelled miscreants.
