Dischord Records

next at Nitehawk Music Driven: new hardcore film/Q&A, Ryuichi Sakamoto doc

The hardcore doc is new film ‘Records Collecting Dust II’ and it includes a Q&A with members of Sheer Terror, Government Issue, and Embrace.

Youth Brigade giving the first-ever official release to their first demo on Dischord (listen)

DC hardcore veterans Youth Brigade (not to be confused with the LA hardcore band of the same name from the same era) were only around very briefly in the early ’80s, having released just one EP on Dischord and contributed to the influential Flex Your Head comp…

Beauty Pill released their first album in 11 years, made a video, touring, playing NYC w/ Grooms (dates, LP stream)

Beauty Pill was formed back in the early 2000s by Chad Clark, who formerly fronted the great DC/Dischord eccentrics Smart Went Crazy. Beauty Pill released two EPs, followed by their 2004 debut album, The Unsustainable Lifestyle (all on Dischord), but then never got around to following that up and had to take several years off after Chad was diagnosed with viral cardiomy…

Fugazi's "First Demo" now streaming, 'Salad Days' premiering

Long in the works, Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC 1980-1990, is premiering as part of the DOC NYC fest in NYC tonight (11/14)…

Dischord vets Soulside reunited, playing DC & NYC

The group’s sound could be described as clean, heavy, and warm, with lyrics focused on politics. Soulside was one of the first DC bands to bridge the hardcore emo sound of “revolution summer” (see Rites of Spring) and move into a sound of post punk deconstruction…

Fugazi releasing 'First Demo', are on the cover of The New York Times Magazine (sort of)

Though Fugazi will probably never get back together, they continue to release an exhaustive amount of material from their heyday. The latest nugget to come out via Ian MacKaye’s Dischord records is a release of their first ever demo, which was recorded in 1988 and is simply being termed First Demo…

Alarms and Controls made their NYC debut at the BV/EIS party, playing Cake Shop tonight; LP out now (streams)

Dischord Records “supergroup” Alarms and Controls (featuring members of ’90s-era Dischord bands Circus Lupus and The Crownhate Ruin, and others) released their debut LP Clovis Points last month, and just came to NYC for their first show here at the BrooklynVegan/Exploding In Sound party at Death by Audio last night (12/12)…

Alarms and Controls (ex-Circus Lupus, The Crownhate Ruin) releasing debut LP on Dischord (stream a track)

Alarms and Controls is the new-ish band formed by Chris Hamley and Vin Novara of ’90s-era Dischord bands Circus Lupus and The Crownhate Ruin, respectively (among others)…

Red Hare on tour w/ Coliseum, made a new video (watch it)

Red Hare at House of Vans in August (more by David Andrako) Post-hardcore supergroup Red Hare, whose lineup features three members of DC hardcore band Swiz (including original Dag Nasty vocalist Shawn Brown), released their debut LP, Nites of Midnite, earlier this year via Dischord…

The Evens playing Logan Hardware in July

The Evens, the project of Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat) and Amy Farina (The Warmers), released one of my favorite records of 2012, The Odds…
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