dischord

When I was a teenager I fell in love with 80's hardcore. I think a lot of it had to do with the huge influence those bands had on the Eau Claire hardcore scene, which I admired so much being a kid in rural Wisconsin.  Eventually I got my hands on "American Hardcore" by Steven Blush and it became my bible for years afterwards. In the back of the book there was a discography of all of the most important releases of the 1980s and it became my mission to hunt them down.  One of the first things I got my hormonal teenage paws on was Minor Threat's Complete Discography. I must have been 14 or 15 and was totally blown away by what I heard.  And by the fact that these were kids that recorded this stuff when they were not much older than me. Ian MacKaye became an instant idol and Dischord has remained on of my favorite record labels since. I've been listening to a lot of Dischord stuff lately and it's funny how when you follow a certain label you can trace your own trip through adolescence(Void, Minor Threat, Government Issue, SOA) onward(Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Evens, Beauty Pill)  along with their roster, and how certain bands and people are so important to shaping your sense of identity and personal aesthetic.  All that being said, this is really just a long winded way of saying here's some music that I enjoy and some footage of Ian MacKaye working at a Hagen Das.