Ian MacKaye
Born
April 16, 1962 (63 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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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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Known For
Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Self
2025
Something Better Change
Self
2024
Cover Your Ears
Self
2023
We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.
Self (archive footage)
2023
Punk Rock Vegan Movie
Self
2023
What Drives Us
Self
2021
Dope, Hookers and Pavement
2020
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
self
2020
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
2019
The Tony Alva Story
Self
2019
Punk
Self · (3 episodes)
2019
Vox Populi
2018
Bad Reputation
Self
2018
Records Collecting Dust II
2018
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
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
Self (archive footage)
2017
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
Self
2017
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Himself
2016
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
Self
2016
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Self
2015
The Dicks from Texas
2014
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
Himself
2014
Riot on the Dance Floor
2014
Breadcrumb Trail
Himself
2014
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound
Himself
2013
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Self
2012
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
Himself
2012
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Self
2012
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
Self
2011
Henry Rollins 50
2011
I Need That Record!
Himself
2008
Punk's Not Dead
Self
2007
924 Gilman Street
Self
2007
American Hardcore
himself
2006
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
Himself
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Himself
2005
Drive: My Life in Skateboarding
Himself
2003
Quest for Sleep
Self
2003
Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club
Performer
2003
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Himself - Interviewee
2002
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999
1999
Instrument
Self
1999
The Obsessed: The Documentary
1994
Fugazi: Live in Front of The White House
1991
Another State of Mind
Himself
1984
Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
1983