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Ian MacKaye

Composer, Actor, ProducerBorn April 16, 1962 (63 years)
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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

  • Chain
  • Records Collecting Dust II
  • Parallel Planes

Ian MacKaye Filmography

2025
2024
2024
2023
2023
2021
2021
What Drives Us · as Self
2020
2019
2019
Punk (TV Series) · as Self
2018
2018
Bad Reputation · as Self
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
2016
L7: Pretend We're Dead · as Self (archive Footage)
2016
2014
Salad Days · as Self
2014
2014
2014
Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (TV Series) · as Self
2014
2014
Breadcrumb Trail · as Himself
2013
2012
2012
2012
2010
Barbershop Punk · as Self
2010
Music · as Self
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2002
2001
2000
The Shield Around the K · as Self - Founder, Dischord Records
1999
Instrument · as Self
1984
Another State of Mind · as Himself
1983
Minor Threat · as Self
1975
Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self

1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Composer
1999
Instrument · as Original Music Composer

2004
Chain · as Executive Producer

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