Ian MacKaye
Acting • Born 1962-04-16
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well as The Evens. He is a co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label. A key figure in the development of hardcore punk and an enthusiastic promoter of an independent-minded, do it yourself punk ethic, MacKaye also works as a producer, and has produced releases by Q and Not U, John Frusciante, 7 Seconds, Nation of Ulysses, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, and Rollins Band. Along with his seminal band Minor Threat, he is credited with coining the term "straight edge" to describe an ideology that eschews drug and alcohol abuse, though MacKaye has stated many times that he did not intend to turn it into a movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian MacKaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
57 credits
Punk Rock Vegan Movie
Movie • 2023
Self
Instrument
Movie • 1999
Self
American Hardcore
Movie • 2006
Self
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
I Need That Record!
Movie • 2008
Himself
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Movie • 2012
Self
The Obsessed: The Documentary
Movie • 1994
Henry Rollins 50
Movie • 2011
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
Movie • 2016
Self
Breadcrumb Trail
Movie • 2014
Himself
Another State of Mind
Movie • 1984
Himself
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Movie • 2025
Self
Punk's Not Dead
Movie • 2007
Self
Drive: My Life in Skateboarding
Movie • 2003
Himself
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie • 2005
Self
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Movie • 2015
Self
Bad Reputation
Movie • 2018
Self
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Movie • 2016
Himself
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999
Movie • 1999
Quest for Sleep
Movie • 2003
Self
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
Movie • 2014
Himself
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
Movie • 2005
Himself
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
Movie • 2011
Self
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
Movie • 2012
Himself
Cover Your Ears
Movie • 2023
Self
Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
Movie • 1983
Riot on the Dance Floor
Movie • 2014
Self
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Movie • 2012
Self
The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
Movie • 2017
The Dicks from Texas
Movie • 2014
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
Movie • 2017
Self
You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
Movie • 2018
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
Movie • 2018
Self
Records Collecting Dust II
Movie • 2018
Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club
Movie • 2003
Performer
Parallel Planes
Movie • 2017
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Movie • 2002
Himself - Interviewee
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
Movie • 2019
Self
924 Gilman Street
Movie • 2007
Self
Dope, Hookers and Pavement
Movie • 2020
What Drives Us
Movie • 2021
Self
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound
Movie • 2013
Himself
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
Movie • 2020
self
The Tony Alva Story
Movie • 2019
Self
Fugazi: Live in Front of The White House
Movie • 1991
We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Something Better Change
Movie • 2024
Self
Vox Populi
Movie • 2018
Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation
Movie • 2025
Fugazi's Last Stop in Wisconsin
Movie • 2010
Himself
Edge
Movie • 2009
Self
Minor Threat
Movie • 1983
Self
Fugazi: Capitol Theater
Movie • 1995
Fugazi: Sacred Heart Church, Washington, DC
Movie • 1991
Fugazi: Forte Prenestino, Rome
Movie • 1999
Ian MacKaye Interview 7.8.05
Movie
Self
Punk
TV • 2019
Self