In 2009, a 45-minute MP3 of audio from Fugazi concerts cropped up on punk and indie-rock blogs. But it wasn’t a musical recording: Instead, James Burns, the fan behind the file, had cobbled together choice clips of outrageous stage banter. The collage not only affirmed the band’s reputation for hardline punk diatribes (“Would the gentleman in [...]
Punk forums and Twitter went aflutter Sunday night when the Minor Threat song "Minor Threat" was played on HBO's Entourage. Given that big companies have a history of using Dischord stuff without permission, some assumed it went down like the Great Nike Copyright Infringement of 2005, or the Forever 21 T-shirt, or the Fox assholery [...]
Malcolm McLaren, the svengali who assembled the Sex Pistols, is dead. He claimed to have invented punk rock, and undoubtedly was a central figure in it.
As far I can tell, he didn't have much of a connection to this punk-rock town (the Sex Pistols, in its original lineup, didn't play D.C.). I called up Dischord, [...]
We spoke this week with Alec Bourgeois, spokesperson for Dischord Records, to get his take on the year in music.
I'd say one of the coolest developments in 2008 was the return of the independent record store, fueled in part by the 12" LP's refusal to obey the grim reaper's call. It's not that places like [...]
