Ian MacKaye
Biography
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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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Acting (52 movies)
Punk Rock Vegan Movie
2023
Instrument
1999
American Hardcore
2006
L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
I Need That Record!
2008
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
2012
The Obsessed: The Documentary
1994
Henry Rollins 50
2011
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
2016
Breadcrumb Trail
2014
Another State of Mind
1984
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
Punk's Not Dead
2007
Drive: My Life in Skateboarding
2003
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
Bad Reputation
2018
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999
1999
Quest for Sleep
2003
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
2005
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
2012
Cover Your Ears
2023
Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
1983
Riot on the Dance Floor
2014
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
2012
The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
2017
The Dicks from Texas
2014
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
2017
You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
2018
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
2018
Records Collecting Dust II
2018
Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club
2003
Parallel Planes
2017
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
2019
924 Gilman Street
2007
Dope, Hookers and Pavement
2020
What Drives Us
2021
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound
2013
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
2020
The Tony Alva Story
2019
Fugazi: Live in Front of The White House
1991
We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.
2023
Something Better Change
2024
Vox Populi
2018
Fugazi's Last Stop in Wisconsin
2010
Edge
2009
Fugazi: Capitol Theater
1995
Fugazi: Sacred Heart Church, Washington, DC
1991
Fugazi: Forte Prenestino, Rome
1999
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Instrument | 1999 | Original Music Composer |
| Chain | 2004 | Executive Producer |