When the band Minor Threat dissolved, lead singer Ian MacKaye famously declared he wanted his next project to sound "like the Stooges with reggae.” For about fifteen years, Fugazi was that band, whose atypical sound and grounded approach to touring and performing have made them legendary, and nearly deistic to their many granola-punk followers. more ›

Image from Dischord Records’ website The EvensSunday, November 11The Compound (1300 E 4th St)$5, 7:30 p.m.[info]A legend will grace east side venue The Compound for a very special early show this Sunday night. Ian MacKaye (of Minor Threat and Fugazi fame) teamed up with Amy Farina (The Warmers) to form The Evens in 2001. Their self-titled debut record was released in 2005 on MacKaye’s Dischord Records and Get Evens dropped the year after. The Evens’... more ›

We respect the hell out of concert photographers; they manage to take awesome photos while expertly dodging meathead security guards, wayward elbows and flying steel-toed boots. At the same time, we loathe the irritating bastards – partly because they distract us with their incessant flashing, but mostly because no matter how hard we try, our own attempts at concert photography usually fail spectacularly, yielding little more than a pile of purple-red streaks that just might be Ian MacKaye. more ›