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A punk at 40: Ian MacKaye reflects on a movement.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Greg Kot
WASHINGTON _ Ian MacKaye did not invent punk rock. But it's quite possible that he has done more than any artist in America to advance its cause, shape its ethics and define its aesthetic over the last 23 years.
As a founding member of Minor Threat, he embodied hard-core punk: fast, pithy, finger-pointing, us-against-them screeds from the belly of alienated teens. Later, with his current quartet Fugazi, he showed how punk could advance by embracing broader musical textures and more open-ended but still-topical lyricism. With Minor Threat bandmate Jeff Nelson, he founded Dischord Records, which they still run as a creative outlet for ...