Ian MacKaye
Biography
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian MacKaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (49)
Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
as Self
2025
Something Better Change
as Self
2024
Cover Your Ears
as Self
2023
We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Punk Rock Vegan Movie
as Self
2023
What Drives Us
as Self
2021
Dope, Hookers and Pavement
2020
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
as self
2020
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
as Self
2019
The Tony Alva Story
as Self
2019
Vox Populi
2018
Bad Reputation
as Self
2018
Records Collecting Dust II
2018
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
as Self
2018
You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
2018
Parallel Planes
2017
The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
2017
L7: Pretend We're Dead
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
as Self
2017
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
as Himself
2016
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
as Self
2016
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
as Self
2015
The Dicks from Texas
2014
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
as Himself
2014
Riot on the Dance Floor
as Self
2014
Breadcrumb Trail
as Himself
2014
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound
as Himself
2013
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
as Self
2012
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
as Himself
2012
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
as Self
2012
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
as Self
2011
Henry Rollins 50
2011
Fugazi's Last Stop in Wisconsin
as Himself
2010
Edge
as Self
2009
I Need That Record!
as Himself
2008
Punk's Not Dead
as Self
2007
924 Gilman Street
as Self
2007
American Hardcore
as Self
2006
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
as Himself
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
as Self
2005
Chain
Executive Producer (Production)
2004
Drive: My Life in Skateboarding
as Himself
2003
Quest for Sleep
as Self
2003
Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club
as Performer
2003
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
as Himself - Interviewee
2002
Fugazi: Forte Prenestino, Rome
1999
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999
1999
Instrument
as Self
1999
