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"Dischord Records was created in 1980 to document the music coming out of the Washington, D.C. punk community. The label has put out the work of over 40 bands, and has distributed hundreds of other releases connected to the D.C. area. We will continue our work as long as this community continues to create music that speaks to us. Thanks."
taken from http://www.dischord.com Artists with releases on this label:
Fugazi, Minor Threat, Q and Not U, Bluetip, Rites of Spring, Nation of Ulysses, Embrace, Dag Nasty, Black Eyes, The Evens, Gray Matter, Make Up, The Warmers, Channels, Joe Lally, Teen Idles Recent ReviewsRecent NewsJoe Lally Washington DC's Joe Lally, bassist for the highly influential and currently on indefinite hiatusFugazi. will be heading out on a US tour through the month of May. He will be backed by Ricardo Lagomasino of Capillary Action on drums and Jonathon Morris of…Void drummer Sean Finnegan (1965-2008) Dischord Records is reporting the sad news that drummer Sean Finnegan of Void passed away on Wednesday January 30th from an apparent heart attack. Sean played with the early hardcore act while the band was active from 1980 to 1983, and was most recently working on the set of HBO show The Wire. Sean's family will receive friends today from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM at Harry H. Witzke's Family Funeral Home in Ellicott City, Maryland. In lieu of flowers his family ask that donations may be made to the Fisher House at Walter…Jeff Nelson (Minor Threat) sells rare, unique hardcore merch on eBay Normally, we wouldn't point out (yet another) eBay auction, but both the auctioneer and the material in question will make this one hard to pass up, particularly for connoisseurs of early hardcore and punk. Jeff Nelson, former drummer of Minor Threat and co-owner for Dischord Records has raided his house and put together a number of auctions of rare and unique punk/hardcore…The story of Minor Threat's hot sauce Though it's not entirely clear why punks and hot sauce seem to be so frequently intertwined, a small hot sauce company from Brooklyn has been selling their own brand of Minor Threat hot sauce. The famously anti-commercial Ian MacKaye has…Q and Not U seeking DVD footage Although broken up, Q and not U are looking to put together a DVD. The band's former members are looking for live footage collected by fans over the years. Dischord Records is encouraging people to email them if they think they have any footage that may be useful. The members of Q and not U have been keeping pretty busy since the band broke up. Harris Klahr is doing his own work under the name President and recently released a digital only…The Evens Now that he is cured of being dead, Ian Mackaye will be headed out on the road with his band, The Evens. The duo will be on the road for two weeks this December, in continued support of their sophomore album, Get Evens. We propose that the third album will be called Evens Stevens or maybe Evens Moneys.…Ian MacKaye is alive and well Ian MacKaye, the man behind Fugazi, Minor Threat, Dischord and countless other projects is alive and well. Many of you wrote in with both the rumour and the denial of said rumour and rest assured that Ian is doing just fine. For those of you unaware of the rumour, a myspace bulletin and eventual Wikipedia entry started the internet hoax that Mr.MacKaye had been killed in a hit-and-run accident. The people behind the hoax were thorough, including a real hospital (Baltimore's St. Agnes…Brendan Canty discusses Fugazi hiatus, "Burn to Shine" and new projects Former Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty recently granted an interview to Billboard and took a moment to discuss his current projects and well as the ongoing Fugazi hiatus. Regarding the latter, he noted: The way Fugazi is meant to function is running at full speed. When it became half, we dealt with it. At a quarter, when we had to stay home most of the time, suddenly it stopped feeling like Fugazi. Instead of waiting around years to do Fugazi, we said, 'Let's run in our separate directions and we'll revisit it…Mastodon, Black Lips, Snowden on next Burn To Shine (Fugazi) DVD According to Dry Ink, the latest edition in Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty's Burn To Shine series will feature performances from Mastodon, Black Lips, Snowden, Deerhunter, Delia Gartrell, the Mighty Hannibal, the Carbonas, the All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, the Coathangers and others. In the series Brendan and film maker Christoph Green travel to towns and film local acts performing in houses that are scheduled to be demolished or burned. Each disc documents the house, the performance and the demolition.…John Stabb out of surgery John Stabb's wife Mika has posted an update on the Goverment Issue frontman's facial reconstruction surgery. She commented: The surgery itself took about 4 hours, though we were there all day. It was great to get that time to let each step of the process sink in. I would've wanted to watch the operation, but I didn't press the idea after I first brought it up last fri. w/ Dr. S. (I love that kind of stuff & also didn't relish leaving john's side. This is the first crisis of our still-nascent marriage, you know! ~an emotional journey, indeed. I… |
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