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After the hardcore punk group Minor Threat dissolved, MacKaye (vocals and guitar) was active with a few short-lived groups, most notably Embrace.MacKaye realized that he wanted to prioritize making music over being in a band, "because sometimes bands get in the way of music, because you’re so focussed (sic) on making a band that you forget that it should be about music first."
Fugazi initially recorded material with producer Steve Albini at Chicago Recording Company with the intention of releasing an EP. The sessions produced an album's worth of material, but the band was unhappy with the result and re-recorded the material in Washington D.C., at Inner Ear Studios with producers Don Zientara and Ted Niceley.
Reception for Breadcrumb Trail has been positive. James S. Rich liked the film, calling it "an exciting examination of the more ephemeral aspects of artistic creation." [5] Dan Nixon of The Quietus stated "while its subject matter isn’t going to appeal outside of some pretty narrow boundaries, that’s a shame, as the story is refreshing in the way it demystifies the process of creating music."
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (/ m ə ˈ k aɪ /; [1] born April 16, 1962) is an American musician. Active since 1979, he is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records , a Washington, D.C. –based independent record label , and the frontman of hardcore punk band Minor Threat and post-hardcore band Fugazi .
Steve Albini of the American rock band Shellac performs in concert during day 3 of Primavera Sound Madrid 2023 on June 10, 2023 in Madrid, Spain Credit - Mariano Regidor—Redferns via Getty Images
Steve Albini, an audio engineer who influenced the sound of legendary indie and alternative rock musicians like Nirvana and Pixies, died Tuesday night in Chicago of a heart attack at age 61 ...
While Alain Jourgensen was living in London, he met Ian MacKaye. MacKaye had been in Washington D.C. punk bands The Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Skewbald/Grand Union, Egg Hunt and Embrace and was on the verge of forming Fugazi, while Jourgensen was taking his band Ministry into new territory—away from the more pop sound of With Sympathy and toward the harder sound of The Land of Rape and Honey.
Steve Albini, the legendary and outspoken musician and producer who oversaw Nirvana’s In Utero, Pixies’ Surfer Rosa and PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, among many other classic albums, died last ...