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Emo kids, fall to your knees and heed the wisdom of the legendary Ian MacKaye. Before I go into MacKaye's Q&A speech on Sunday in Hollywood (he's been touring the West Coast the last several days), recall this: The musician/singer/songwriter/Dis chord Records founder--of Fugazi and Minor Threat fame-- helped sow the seeds of the punk and hardcore scenes that flourish even now. And from which, in turn, sprung the "emotional hardcore" that begat today's emo. MacKaye, a lifelong Washington, D.C. resident, talked about both music (he laments that his early band Teen Idles' demo [...]