Ian MacKaye
Actor
- Born
- April 16, 1962 (age 64) · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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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.
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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
American Hardcore
September 22, 2006
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
January 21, 2012
Bad Reputation
September 28, 2018
Instrument
March 1, 1999
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
April 11, 2015
Punk's Not Dead
July 27, 2007
What Drives Us
April 30, 2021
Breadcrumb Trail
April 10, 2014
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
June 27, 2016
Another State of Mind
March 1, 1984
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
February 25, 2005
L7: Pretend We're Dead
October 13, 2017
Acting56
- 2026Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt as Self
- 2025Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation
- 2024Something Better Change as Self
- 2023Cover Your Ears as Self
- 2023We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C. as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Punk Rock Vegan Movie as Self
- 2021What Drives Us as Self
- 2020Dope, Hookers and Pavement
- 2020I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk as self
- 2019Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement