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    Jun 17, 2021 4 minutes
    By Jim Wirth
    Crowd control:
    Minor Threat’s
    Ian MacKaye

    PUNK THE CAPITAL: BUILDING A SOUND MOVEMENT

    WIENERWORLD

    8/10

    The real MacKaye: fab retrospective of punk rock in Washington, DC, 1976–84.

    AS they bickered throughout the final days of Minor Threat, drummer Jeff Nelson told singer Ian MacKaye that – as unwashed jocks from the ’burbs started to infiltrate their well-marshalled scene – he wasn’t really enjoying playing with the DC hardcore giants any more. Righteous fire forever burning in his eyes, MacKaye replied: “It’s not supposed to be fun.”

    Packed with great footage and interviews, James June Schneider and Paul Bishow’s excellent doc on the evolution of Washington, DC’s mutant strain of punk shows how a teenage passion morphed into a full-on crusade. The comic-store nerds and Clash

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