Ian MacKaye

Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the cofounder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.based independent record label and the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and the posthardcore band Fugazi, who have been on hiatus since 2003. MacKaye was also the frontman for the short lived bands The Teen Idles, Embrace and Pailhead, a collaboration with the band Ministry. MacKaye is currently a member of The Evens, a twopiece Indie rock group he formed with his wife Amy Farina in 2001.

Ian MacKaye was born in Washington D.C. on April 16, 1962, and grew up in the Glover Park neighborhood of Washington D.C. His father was a writer for the Washington Post, first as a White House reporter, then as a religion specialist the senior MacKaye remains active with the socially progressive St. Stephens Episcopal Church. According to MacKayes longtime friend, singer Henry Rollins, MacKayes parents raised their kids in a tolerant, superintellectual, openminded atmosphere.

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