Twelve Days of #TCOM: Fugazi Live Series All Access . Back again for another year of awfully-similar-to-everywhere- else Gift Guides, we bring you this year’s Twelve Days of #TCOM. We bring you a daily pick from us that would make any twerker or tweaker or tweeter happy. Late last year the Dischord Records gang went ahead and started the “Fugazi Live Series”, an archive of as many shows as they could find from the band’s history placed online for easy downloading for a very fair price plan. According [...]
On their third album, Washington D.C.'s the Evens prove major changes aren't necessary when great songwriting, strong messages, and tight playing are the main ingredients in your recipe. WATCH THE REVIEW
In honor of Independence Day, KEXP is saluting some of our favorite indie record labels who’s DIY-spirit helped revolutionize the music industry. As an independent radio station ourselves, KEXP is thrilled to give a 13-gun salute to these pioneers with a series of label spotlights through the Fourth of July. Although many record labels have been started in order to deliver punk messages to the masses, no label has had more influence over the shape of the last 30 years of punk than Dischord Records . Founded in 1980 by D.C. [...]
03.15: Bantam Foxes + Denton Hatcher + Ryan Gray - Circle Bar 03.16: Bones + Coyotes - Circle Bar 03.17: Soccer Team + Edie Sedgwick + I'm Fine + Opposable Thumbs - Siberia It was only weeks ago that I found myself on the late night airwaves of WTUL with the ladies of KG Accidental , spinning records exclusively from the archives of Washington, DC's seminal hardcore label Dischord Records, recounting my love of [...]
saummos : FUGAZI - WAITING ROOM live recording from sept 3rd, 1987: the first ever fugazi show the public debut of this song is undoubtely one of the most important moments in music history. this version has joe on backing vocals (guy picciotto was in the audience but not yet the band) and is played at a significantly slower tempo “Movement is a big part of life”.
Fugazi is a band from Washington, DC. Between 1987 and 2003 Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally, Brendan Canty and Guy Picciotto played over 1000 concerts, covering all fifty United States, Europe, Australia, South America, Japan and many points in between. Over 800 of these shows were recorded by the band's sound engineers, often on high quality recording gear. The Fugazi Live Series , officially launched on December 1, 2011, is a complete online archive of these concerts. Show pages will [...]
Now that my American readers (i know there's at least, like, 3 of you) have access to Spodify too, i feel less bad about sharing playlists and stuff on it. Now if only the people at the far, far superior turntable.fm could sort it so you can use it outside the States (i managed 2 glorious days on there before the geoblock). But anyway yeh, until then, here's a Spotify playlist featuring virtually the entire Dischord Records disc(h)ography , in order. For some reason, The Snakes records aren't on there – [...]
Words by Rick Moslen Growing up, many of us believed in punk rock but never considered ourselves “punk.” We moshed at shows, bought $3 Epitaph compilations, and complained about Green Day not being a real punk band, but despite a few oddly colored hair manifestations, we never looked the part. Then high school arrived and we discovered Fugazi (cue Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus). Not only did they look like regular dudes, but their aesthetic was as essential as the music. My high school punk band suddenly sported Fugazi -esque principles: [...]
Approaching Oblivion has posted a detailed interview with Ian Mackaye of Fugazi , Minor Threat and Dischord Records . He talks about the status of the label: We don't have a lot of current bands. Part of our arrangement from the very beginning was that we were documenting a specific musical scene. I think that it waxes and wanes, it's a living thing, and eventually it will die because it's a living thing. I don't think we're done documenting things, but right now we have a specific back catalog that people are interested [...]
Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000) A Line in the Sand And the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight Fever Sleeves Hooray for Humans Kiss Distinctly American We Heart Our Hive Little Sparkee The More I Get, the More I Want Y Plus White Girl Nine Things Everybody Knows Sleeping the Terror Code [...]
I've been thinking of doing this post for a while now. As much as I love my records and my local record stores, sometimes it's hard to resist the digital deals out there. I don't want to be a shill for the big online retailer (though I'm sure some will accuse me of that anyway) but I think it's worth letting people know what we might think are five worthwhile albums on sale for $5 this month. I'll leave the comments open if you want to blast away or share five of your own selections that are [...]
Ian MacKaye —co-founder of Dischord Records , former member of Minor Threat and Embrace, current member of Fugazi (on indefinite hiatus) and The Evens, and all-around DIY icon—has just been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the All-Ages Movement Project 's East Coast Summit. The event , which is being organized by Exotic Fever Records co-founder (and Trophy Wife drummer) Katy Otto, will be held at The Rotunda on Saturday, February 26th. The summit will feature "[a]n evening of panels, speakers, training, networking and live music designed for staff, [...]
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One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music. The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses. Lost in this growing blogging race are the building blocks that got us to where we are, the albums that sounded like the hot new thing before the hot new thing was even a thing. So, in an effort to spotlight some artists or albums that might not have hit Hype Machine lately, Listen [...]
El Guapo - "Supersystem" LP - Dischord Records [download full album HERE] This review was initially published in my magazine/reluctant webzine of yore, The Gumshoe Revue. El Guapo - not to be confused with Guapo, another great, very different band ... Continue reading
Mi Ami - "Hard Up" MP3/download Hey, remember Black Eyes? Yeah, they were awesome, though I suspect most folks in the indie community preTENDed to like them because they were on Dischord ... the Black Eyes sound was just too abrasive for your average The Rapture fan; I was one of maybe two DJs that [...]
...Over the last decade, DC native John Davis earned an impressive reputation within indie rock circles with his bands Q and Not U and Georgie James. While the former channeled much of the DC music scene’s storied musical legacy into its records, the latter seemed like a radical departure for Davis into electro-pop territory. With [...]
Three outsiders breathe new life into Atlanta’s DIY music scene
Dischord Records , D.C.'s most trusted name in punk and hardcore, has announced that they will be reissuing Gray Matter 's albums Food For Thought and Take It Back on vinyl this September, with MP3 download freebies. The Take It Back reissue will also feature the four songs off their 1991 double 73. The Dischord family will also be working with Desoto Records in order to reissue Jawbox 's excellent For Your Own Special Sweetheart , to include three tracks not on the original. Finally, Joe Lally , [...]
by chuck bell There are some music scenes that are so tightly knit and incestuous, that it is difficult to tell where one band starts and another begins. For example, in the early 80's, D.C.'s hardcore scene was based around Ian Mackaye and various Dischord affiliates, from Minor Threat all the way to Fugazi . In the early 90's, nearly every Chicago indie band was somehow involved with Cap'n Jazz and the Kinsella brothers. Today, it is difficult to find a Canadian band that is not associated [...]
Personally, I am a huge fan of John Davis. His drum work in Q and Not U was phenomenal. His pop leanings in Georgie James made me warm inside. Now we have word that he has a new group together called Title Tracks , and they've just released their first 73 off legendary Dischord Records , so you have to support them if you want to keep your street cred. You can head over here for a few samples, or just check the [...]
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