Dischord Records

Dischord Records
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	http://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 having maintained a strict do-it-yourself ethic, producing all of its albums by itself and selling them at discount prices without the help of 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.

Roster

Further information: List of Dischord Records bands and Dischord Records discography

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

1. ^ Azerrad p. 132
2. ^ Blush p. 138
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Cogan p. 82
4. ^ Cogan p. 83
5. ^ Blush p. 142
6. ^ ^{a b} Blush p. 147
7. ^ Blush p. 146
8. ^ Blush p. 150
9. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Blush p. 157
10. ^ Blush p. 148

References and Bibliography

• 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). George Petros. ed. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 9780922915712. 
• Cogan, Brian (2008). The Encyclopedia of Punk. New York: Sterling. ISBN 978-1402759604. 

External links

• Official site
• Dischord Records Profile by Southern Records
• Dischord Records Label Spotlight