Dischord Records
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| Founded | 1980 |
| Founder | Ian MacKaye Jeff Nelson |
| Distributor(s) | Southern Records |
| Genre | Punk rock Hardcore punk Post-hardcore Indie rock Alternative rock |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Official Website | www.dischord.com |
Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles.[1][2] The label is most notable for employing the do-it-yourself ethic, producing all of its albums by itself and selling them at discount prices without finance from major distributors.[3] Dischord continues to release records by bands from Washington D.C., and to document and support the Washington D.C. music scene.[4]
Dischord was a local label in the early days of hardcore, and is one of the more famous independent labels, along with the likes of Alternative Tentacles, SST Records, and Touch & Go Records.[3] Early releases by Dischord were relatively well produced compared to other punk recordings of the time.[citation needed] Minor Threat's work is an example of these higher production values.
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Roster [edit]
Bands such as Minor Threat,[5] Government Issue,[6] The Faith,[7] Void,[8] Iron Cross,[6] Embrace,[9] Rites of Spring,[9] Nation of Ulysses,[9] Scream,[10] Soulside, Gray Matter, Jawbox,[9] Marginal Man,[9] Shudder to Think,[9] Dag Nasty,[9] Lungfish and Fugazi[3] have released records on Dischord.
Additions to the Dischord roster as of the late 1990s and early 2000s include Q and Not U,[3] Beauty Pill, Antelope, Faraquet, Black Eyes, The Aquarium, Title Tracks, Edie Sedgwick, and Andalusians. Many of these acts, notably Q and Not U and Black Eyes, are both influential and experimental post-hardcore bands. Dischord also recently signed Office of Future Plans, a new band started by former Jawbox frontman J. Robbins.
Notes [edit]
- ^ Azerrad 2001, p. 132.
- ^ Blush 2001, p. 138.
- ^ a b c d Cogan 2008, p. 82.
- ^ Cogan 2008, p. 83.
- ^ Blush 2001, p. 142.
- ^ a b Blush 2001, p. 147.
- ^ Blush 2001, p. 146.
- ^ Blush 2001, p. 150.
- ^ a b c d e f g Blush 2001, p. 157.
- ^ Blush 2001, p. 148.
References and bibliography [edit]
- Azerrad, Michael (2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-78753-1.
- Blush, Steven (2001). In George Petros. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2.
- Cogan, Brian (2008). The Encyclopedia of Punk. New York: Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4027-5960-4.
