Ian MacKaye

Actor

Date of birth : 04/16/1962

City of birth : Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Ian MacKaye formed the Washington, D.C. band Fugazi with Brendan Canty and Joe Lally and Guy Picciotto in 1987. Before that, he was a member of Egg Hunt, Embrace, Minor Threat, Skewbald/ Grand Union, and Teen Idles. Ian created "Dischord Records" in 1980 to document the music coming out of the Washington, D.C. punk community. In 1998, Dischord released a film by Jem Cohen called Instrument (1999) which compounds ten years of various Fugazi studio and tour documentary footage.