Ian MacKaye
Actor
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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Filmography
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
as Self 2012
Bad Reputation
as Self 2018
Instrument
as Self 1999
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
as Self 2015
Punk's Not Dead
as Self 2007
What Drives Us
as Self 2021
Breadcrumb Trail
as Himself 2014
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
as Himself 2016
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
as Self 2005
L7: Pretend We're Dead
as Self (archive footage) 2017
Another State of Mind
as Himself 1984
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
as Self 2018
I Need That Record!
as Himself 2008
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
as Self 2017
Edge
as Self 2009
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
as Himself - Interviewee 2002