#ian-mackaye — Public Fediverse posts

New Zine Review: Fugazi Saved My Life (How Punk Made Me Less of an Asshole)

Link: https://diyconspiracy.net/zine-review-fugazi-saved-my-life/

#fugazi #punk #ianmackaye

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

#punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

43 years ago today
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and a punk from the audience at Rollerworks, Chatsworth, California, April 2, 1983.

📸 Linda Aronow

Btw - > Minor Threat and Suicidal Tendencies on one stage 🤩

#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #IanMacKaye #history #historyofpunk #otd

This is, excuse me, a damn hit

https://coriky.bandcamp.com/track/clean-kill

#bandcamp #music #amyfarina #dc #ianmackaye #punk #dischord #joelally #Washington

Bah, the Henry Rollins/Ian MacKaye thing isn't actually a collab:

"I think I need to clear something up. Last week I told you that I went up to DC and mixed some tracks with Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios in beautiful Arlington, VA. The tracks we mixed were not a collaborative effort, besides the mixing itself. I am not on the tape. Ian is not on the tape. Neither of us are on the tape."

https://www.henryrollins.com/on-the-radio-all/2025/11/7/radio-broadcast-866-11-0725

#HenryRollins #IanMacKaye

In this week’s curated collection of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing: Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins, Silversun Pickups, Radiohead, Jimmy Eat World, Home Front and more.

https://tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-47

#music #punk #PunkRock #AltRock #AlternativeRock #indie #IndieMusic #shoegaze #IanMacKaye #HenryRollins #SilversunPickups #Radiohead #JimmyEatWorld #HomeFront

New skateboarding documentary features Zack de la Rocha, Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins, Ray Barbee, Jeff Ament and more

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-skateboarding-doc-ft-zack-de-la-rocha-ian-mackaye-more-streaming-screening-for-free-in-nyc/

#music #skateboarding #ZackDeLaRocha #IanMacKaye #HenryRollins #RayBarbee #JeffAment
#MinorThreat #Fugazi #BlackFlag #RageAgainstTheMachine #PearlJam

Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye made a new record together, Rollins says

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/henry-rollins-ian-mackaye-made-a-new-record-together-rollins-says/

#music #punk #PunkRock #PunkHardcore #HardcorePunk #BlackFlag #RollinsBand #HenryRollins #MinorThreat #Fugazi #IanMacKaye

40 years ago today
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye backstage after Black Flag concert, DC Space, Washington DC, October 4, 1985.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #history #punkhistory

Self-Titled Summer | Minor Threat (1984, US)

Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 609 on The List, submitted by @markwyner. I was meaning to get back to keeping these STS posts brief, but a Fedizen specifically noted they’d like to read more about this rather iconic band so *takes deepest breath possible*:

• Point of origin(s): Minor Threat was formed in Washington D.C. in 1980 by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, following the demise of their high school hardcore punk band the Teen Idles (originally called The Slinkees, formed in 1979). MacKaye had been the bassist and main lyricist, Nelson the drummer; in their new band, Nelson continued as the drummer and MacKaye continued as lyricist but switched from bass to vocals, and Brian Baker and Lyle Preslar rounded out the original lineup on bass and guitar, respectively. The first Minor Threat show would be one month after Teen Idles broke up, in December 1980, to all of 50 people (you were there, right?), opening for local bands Bad Brains and S.O.A. (State Of Alert), i.e., the band of former Teen Idles’ roadie (and lifetime bff of MacKaye) Henry Garfield aka Henry Rollins.
  At about the same time as their band change, together MacKaye and Nelson started Dischord Records with the $600 that Teen Idles had earned in its existence, initially just in order to put out that band’s only release, the Minor Disturbance EP (1980).[1] The EP made enough for the label to continue, and so next they put out the sole release from S.O.A., No Policy EP (1981), followed by Minor Threat’s debut s/t EP (also referred to as 1st 7″) and soon after their second EP, In My Eyes (both 1981). The album we look at here is a compilation of those 7″s (hence also referred to as First Two 7″s), released after the band broke up.
• Tasting notes: Hardcore punk, none of your bullshit
• Standout track: My favourites are “I Don’t Want to Hear It”, “Minor Threat”, and “In My Eyes”. And then, for its historical importance, “Straight Edge”. Keen eyes may have noted the X-marked hands on the cover of the Teen Idles’ EP that would come to be a symbol used in the locally-grown straight edge scene/movement/subculture. However, at the time of that band, those drawn-on Xs initially simply indicated that those hands belonged to concert attendees who were underage, and was a way to allow younger fans into venues that weren’t all-ages. The link between Minor Threat’s song “Straight Edge” and the scene though was absolutely direct, as the scene’s name and manifesto was taken straight out of MacKaye’s lyrics. “Out of Step” also provides another version of the lifestyle guidelines that at least some who considered themselves straight edge followed, including MacKaye himself.
• Where are they now?: Following the release of their 2nd EP, Minor Threat briefly split up and then reformed a few months later (thanks to H.R. of Bad Brains) with Steve Hansgen (briefly) joining as bassist and Baker switching to second guitar. The group then put out (via Dischord Records, of course) a 12″ EP in 1983, Out of Step (with a new version of the title track)…and then (partially due to the existence of U2, lol) broke up. Each of the band members would go on to do tons of cool shit, e.g., Fugazi (and a handful of other awesome bands) was founded by MacKaye, Baker has been a member of Bad Religion since 1994, Hansgren co-produced Tool’s Opiate EP, and Dischord Records – still co-owned by MacKaye and Nelson – remains one of the best record labels on the planet.
• Websites: Bandcamp, Wikipedia, Band profile on Dischord Records’ website

Happy listening!

• Bandcamp: Minor Threat – First Two 7″s (the digital edition has a couple extra tracks in between, originally on Dischord’s 1982 comp Flex Your Head – “12XU” and “Stand Up”)
• Discogs: Minor Threat – Minor Threat

1. The tracks had been recorded earlier that year with Don Zientara at his Inner Ear studio at the request of Skip Groff (record producer, radio DJ, and owner of the Yesterday & Today record store in Rockville, Maryland), but then shelved. ↩︎

#1980s #DischordRecords #hardcore #hardcorePunk #IanMacKaye #JeffNelson #MinorThreat #music #musicDiscovery #selftitled #straightEdge #TeenIdles #WashingtonDC

42 years ago
Minor Threat at 9.30 Club, Washington DC, June 1983.

Minor Threat - 9.30 Club -June 1983 - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory

42 years ago
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat at 9.30 Club, Washington DC, June 1983.

Photo by Jim Saah

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory

It was probably the most normal thing in the world for Ian MacKaye to shave the heads of Henry Rollins and John Stabb during a Dead Kennedys concert. 😳😆

#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #johnstabb #history #punkrockhistory

https://youtu.be/7KI4yX0aLtU?si=qvjLHk6QoIGWuibx

#IanMacKaye of #Fugazi & #MinorThreat

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, singer and guitarist of Fugazi, born on this day in 1962, Washington, D.C.

Fugazi - Bad Mouth (live, 1991)

#punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

#punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

#punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

42 years ago
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and a punk from the audience at Rollerworks, Chatsworth, California, April 2, 1983.

📸 Linda Aronow

Btw - > Minor Threat and Suicidal Tendencies on one stage 🤩

#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #IanMacKaye #history #historyofpunk #otd

https://youtu.be/wIwuiMCsIXo?si=ub-FdH1bmCL_lbwi

#IanMacKaye #Politics

Ian Mackaye still has the skateboard from the famous Minor Threat photo shoot -1980.

Photo from the Instagram account of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk

#punk #punks #punkrock #IanMacKaye #minorthreat #fugazi #tonyhawk #history #punkrockhistory

45 years ago today
Nathan Strejcek, Jeff Nelson, Ian MacKaye, and Geordie Grindle of the Teen Idles, 18th Street, Adams Morgan, Washington DC, January 25, 1980

Pic by Lucian Perkins

#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #teenidles #IanMacKaye #jeffnelson #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Buddies 👍
Henry Rollins (and Ian MacKaye) back when he worked at Häagen-Dazs around 1981.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory

39 years ago today
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye backstage after Black Flag concert, DC Space, Washington DC, October 4, 1985.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #history #punkhistory

41 years ago
Ian and Henry, Los Angeles, CA, June 1983.

Photo by Naomi Petersen

#punk #punks #punkrock #IanMacKaye #henryrollins #history #punkrockhistory

41 years ago
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat at 9.30 Club, Washington DC, June 1983.

Photo by Jim Saah

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory

#NowPlaying Thanks to Marc Masters for the reminder about Vish Khanna’s incredible #KreativeKontrol podcast and the many, many, many interviews he did with #SteveAlbini over the years. Here’s a two-part conversation between Steve and #IanMacKaye, where we get to be like a fly on the wall.

Ep 223 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kreative-kontrol/id652522142?i=1000378502485

Ep 224 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kreative-kontrol/id652522142?i=1000378502439

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

#punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Today is the halfway point of our current 6 Degrees series, connecting albums from The List. And, again, because we’re doing a bit of a Prince-theme, we’ll be picking out some fun Prince-connections in/below the set.

Okay, carrying on from where we left off last time…

6 Degrees of Separation: Bruce Dickinson to Explosions In The Sky

Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding (list number 509)
>> As noted in our feature on Tagaq’s album (which ended Part 3), she’s keen to someday cover Iron Maiden, whose frontman is Bruce Dickinson. Dickinson’s solo album contains both lyrics and artwork by the 18th/19th century English poet and painter William Blake…

Prince – For You (623)
…who the writer John Higgs delightfully compares at length to Prince in his piece in The Quietus called “Visionaries Across Time: The Shared Magic of Prince & William Blake“. …

Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power (814)
…William Blake also pops up in Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film Dead Man, as the main character, also named William Blake, may or may not be the reincarnation of the English poet. Dead Man features a cameo by Iggy Pop, who is regarded as the “godfather of punk”. …

Minor Threat – Minor Threat (609)
…And, if anyone could similarly be called the “godfather of hardcore” (or could command as much devotion from Henry Rollins), that would be Ian MacKaye, of Minor Threat and…

Fugazi – Repeater (422)
…Fugazi, whose tour for The Argument album featured the post-rock greats…

Explosions In The Sky – Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (73)
Explosions In The Sky. <<

Prince 6(ish)

This group of artists are a bit far removed from The Purple One, so the connections are tough for this set. Let me know in the comments if you know of any other connections!

• Iron Maiden and Prince both had a rigorous release schedule in the 80s and early 90s, with both releasing an album (and a hit album, at that) nearly every year. E.g., Iron Maiden’s 1st self-titled album came out the same year as Prince’s Dirty Mind (1980), as did Killers and Controversy (1981), The Number of the Beast and 1999 (1982), Powerslave and Purple Rain (1984), etc. (Prince didn’t have an 1983 album to match Maiden’s Piece of Mind, likely due to working on the Purple Rain film/album.) ((I feel like there should be an accompanying string of surveys on Mastodon asking people to pick their favorites from the above pairs…))
• The Swedish author and professor Per Nilsen has written music biographies on Prince as well as Iggy Pop and the Stooges (and David Bowie).
• While there’s no direct connection between Minor Threat and Prince, I found this Flavorwire article interesting that links the American hardcore scene with Prince by way of fellow-Minneapolis band Hüsker Dü (who is on The List, and who was signed to SST Records, the label of Greg Ginn of Black Flag, who Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye’s bff, was the vocalist of from 1981 to 1985). Essentially, the author argues that location tied Prince and Hüsker Dü (as well as The Replacements) together just like Seattle, Detroit, and Memphis did for the bands that came from those cities:
  • “Trying to separate the success of Prince and The Revolution from the impact the music of The Replacements and Hüsker Dü would go on to have smacks of punk rock elitism, and is almost like somebody saying that Nirvana shouldn’t count as part of the now-legendary Seattle scene simply because they got too big… Prince…and his lasting impact on his hometown’s music scene are just as vital as the influence attributed to a couple of punk bands he has probably never even listened to.”
• Fugazi’s Repeater came out the same year as Prince’s Graffiti Bridge (1990).
• Explosions In The Sky’s Those Who Tell the Truth… came out just a couple months before Prince’s Rainbow Children (2001), just a week prior to 9/11. Explosions In The Sky had some hub-bub around their album since the artwork had an airplane with the caption “This plane will crash tomorrow”, including one of the band members being detained by airport security. I wonder if the reception of Prince’s album would’ve been different if it wasn’t released during this time, as it seems that Rainbow Children is one of those that gets missed. ((Indeed, it should be on The List – I would add it myself, but I’ve cut myself off – somebody else want to submit it???))
• Prince died on Iggy Pop’s 69th birthday.

Tune in on Wednesday for Part 5, to see how we get from Explosions in the Sky to Rainbow! And in the meantime, tomorrow we will have a regular spotlight that provides a bit of a spoiler to Part 5…

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/15/6-degrees-of-separation-part-4/

#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #BruceDickinson #ExplosionsInTheSky #Fugazi #HuskerDu #IanMacKaye #IggyPop #IronMaiden #MinorThreat #PerNilsen #Prince #Tagaq #TheStooges #WilliamBlake

41 years ago
The perfect symbiosis of lead singer and audience

Minor Threat at Cathay de Grande in Los Angeles, CA, USA , April 1983

Photo by Kevin Salk

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minorthreat #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory

41 years ago today
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and a punk from the audience at Rollerworks, Chatsworth, California, April 2, 1983.

📸 Linda Aronow

Btw - > Minor Threat and Suicidal Tendencies on one stage 🤩

#punkrock #hardcorepunk #IanMacKaye #history #historyofpunk #otd