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Ian MacKaye
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American singer and record label owner
Film & TV
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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…
Known for
- Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self2026
- Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation2025
- Something Better Change — Self2024
- Punk Rock Vegan Movie — Self2023
- Cover Your Ears — Self2023
- We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C. — Self (archive footage)2023
- What Drives Us — Self2021
- Dope, Hookers and Pavement2020
- I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk — self2020
- Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement — Self2019
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1962-04-16
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 530
- Total plays
- 945
Ian MacKaye (pronounced Mc-Eye) (b. April 16, 1962) is an American musician, probably best known as the founder of straight edge movement, the founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based punk rock label, and as the singer for two important punk rock groups: Minor Threat and Fugazi. MacKaye grew up in Washington, D.C. and listened to mainstream hard rock before discovering punk music in 1976 when he saw The Cramps perform at Georgetown University. <a href="https://www.last.fm
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Sibling
- Alec MacKaye
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Jackson-Reed High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- punk rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Dischord Records
- Official website
- www.dischord.com/band/fugazi
- Image
- Ian MacKaye at the Brooklyn Book Festival.jpg
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- Ian MacKaye
- date of birth
- 1962-04-16
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- lifestyle
- veganism
- web feed URL
- www.dischord.com/news.rss
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