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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Films Featuring Ian MacKaye

Punk Rock Vegan Movie

20236.0

Instrument

19996.9

American Hardcore

20066.9

L7: Pretend We're Dead

20177.0

I Need That Record!

20086.5

Bad Brains: A Band in DC

20126.2

The Obsessed: The Documentary

19946.0

Henry Rollins 50

20118.0

What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt

2016

Breadcrumb Trail

20147.7

Another State of Mind

19846.1

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

2025

Punk's Not Dead

20076.1

Drive: My Life in Skateboarding

20035.2

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

20056.7

Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

20157.0

Bad Reputation

20186.6

Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

20166.4

Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999

1999

Quest for Sleep

2003

Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl

20057.0

Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action

2014

Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

2011

We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith

20128.0

Cover Your Ears

20236.0

Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two

19838.0

Riot on the Dance Floor

20149.0

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

20127.9

The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997

2017

The Dicks from Texas

2014

You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys

2018

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

20177.4

Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

20187.9

Records Collecting Dust II

20187.0

Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club

2003

Parallel Planes

20176.0

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

20025.6

Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement

20197.4

924 Gilman Street

2007

Dope, Hookers and Pavement

2020

What Drives Us

20216.8

Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound

2013

I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk

2020

The Tony Alva Story

201910.0

Fugazi: Live in Front of The White House

1991

We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.

20236.0

Something Better Change

2024

Vox Populi

2018

Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation

Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation

2025

Fugazi's Last Stop in Wisconsin

2010

Edge

20095.6

Minor Threat

Minor Threat

1983

Fugazi: Capitol Theater

1995

Fugazi: Sacred Heart Church, Washington, DC

1991

Fugazi: Forte Prenestino, Rome

1999

Ian MacKaye Interview 7.8.05

Ian MacKaye Interview 7.8.05