Ian MacKaye

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian MacKaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Punk

Punk's Not Dead

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

What Drives Us

Bad Reputation

American Hardcore

The Tony Alva Story

Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

All Movies (56)

• Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation2025
• Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt2025 · as Self
• Something Better Change2024 · as Self
• Cover Your Ears2023 · as Self
• We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Punk Rock Vegan Movie2023 · as Self
• What Drives Us2021 · as Self
• Dope, Hookers and Pavement2020
• I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk2020 · as self
• Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement2019 · as Self
• The Tony Alva Story2019 · as Self
• Vox Populi2018
• Bad Reputation2018 · as Self
• Records Collecting Dust II2018
• Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records2018 · as Self
• You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys2018
• Parallel Planes2017
• The Outhouse: The Film 1985-19972017
• L7: Pretend We're Dead2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk2017 · as Self
• Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape2016 · as Himself
• What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt2016 · as Self
• Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)2015 · as Self
• The Dicks from Texas2014
• Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action2014 · as Himself
• Riot on the Dance Floor2014 · as Self
• Breadcrumb Trail2014 · as Himself
• Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound2013 · as Himself
• Bad Brains: A Band in DC2012 · as Self
• We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith2012 · as Himself
• Bones Brigade: An Autobiography2012 · as Self
• Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind2011 · as Self
• Henry Rollins 502011
• Fugazi's Last Stop in Wisconsin2010 · as Himself
• Edge2009 · as Self
• I Need That Record!2008 · as Himself
• Punk's Not Dead2007 · as Self
• 924 Gilman Street2007 · as Self
• American Hardcore2006 · as Self
• Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl2005 · as Himself
• We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen2005 · as Self
• Drive: My Life in Skateboarding2003 · as Himself
• Quest for Sleep2003 · as Self
• Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club2003 · as Performer
• D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist2002 · as Himself - Interviewee
• Fugazi: Forte Prenestino, Rome1999
• Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 19991999
• Instrument1999 · as Self
• Fugazi: Capitol Theater1995
• The Obsessed: The Documentary1994
• Fugazi: Sacred Heart Church, Washington, DC1991
• Fugazi: Live in Front of The White House1991
• Another State of Mind1984 · as Himself
• Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two1983
• Minor Threat1983 · as Self
• Ian MacKaye Interview 7.8.05— · as Self

All TV Shows (1)

• Punk2019 · as Self