Ian MacKaye
Ian MacKaye is an American musician and co-founder of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.–based independent record label he established with Jeff Nelson in 1980. He is best known as the frontman of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat and the post-hardcore band Fugazi, both widely regarded as highly influential in their respective genres. He currently performs with The Evens, a two-piece group formed with his wife Amy Farina in 2001, and Coriky, formed in 2015 with Farina and Fugazi bandmate Joe Lally.
“Ian MacKaye appears in the middle and he has this line where he says, 'Yeah, I didn't know what I wanted to be, but I knew I didn't want to be like the football players at my school.' And for me at 15, I was like, yeah, that guy's talking to me.”
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