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Apr 16, 2014 · Louder. Ian MacKaye on Minor Threat, Fugazi and the power of Punk Rock. By Paul Brannigan. published 16 April 2014. "We came out of punk, and our point was never to smash the label system, our point was to make our own world". Best known as the frontman of Minor Threat and Fugazi and as the co-founder of Washington DC's influential Dischord ...
- Paul Brannigan
Apr 27, 2023 · Sure, Minor Threat fell apart shortly after, such was the severity of their in-fighting. But they were just kids. When the hardcore scene became plagued by meatheads only in it for violence and vandalism, MacKaye’s response was to retreat and form the seminal Embrace, one of the ‘Revolution Summer’ acts (alongside Rites Of Spring ...
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His decision to abstain from substances began to influence youth culture as Minor Threat gained popularity through numerous live shows and sales of their EP. Although to MacKaye the song did not represent a philosophy or a movement, over time people adopted the philosophy of the song and many bands began to label themselves straight edge ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Minor Threat, I was at the first show, I forget which song they started with but I was standing 4 feet away when the first notes rang out. I mean, i'd been to their band practices and I knew what was coming but they played this, pretty much, perfect set.
Jul 3, 2020 · Minor Threat created, and subsequently defined, the accidental phenomenon of the straight-edge punk movement of the early ’80s. Their message and concerts helped spawn a punk lifestyle based on the group’s intense, clean-living ideology of rejecting drugs and alcohol, espoused anti-establishment politics, and led a call for self-awareness.
Sep 3, 2023 · Minor Threat showed that the power of punk can be harnessed for good and there’s a different way to live. Mackaye saw the potential- maybe the necessity- for punk to combine the anger, reactionary raw aggression of punk music and image with something positive and hopeful- something that encouraged to identify areas of their life they can take ...
Classic albums, told by the people who made them. My name is Dan Nordheim. Minor Threat formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 by Ian MacKaye, Jeff Nelson, Lyle Preslar and Brian Baker. MacKaye and Nelson had played in the Teen Idles in high school together and when that band broke up, they started Dischord Records.
