Genres: Hardcore Punk, Alternative/Indie Rock, Punk/New Wave, American Punk, Straight-Edge, American Underground Active: 80's Formed: 1980 in Washington D.C.
Wire, The Sex Pistols, Bad Brains, Jimi Hendrix, Sham 69, The Ramones, Ted Nugent, Dead Kennedys, The Damned, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, The Stooges Hüsker Dü, Gorilla Biscuits, Dead Kennedys, Minutemen, Negative Approach, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Violent Apathy, Nomeansno, Mission of Burma, Youth of Today, Agent Orange, Gang of Four, Fear, Circle Jerks, Christian Death, Bad Religion, The State, Bluetip Christian Death, With Honor, Descendents, Carry On, The Killing Flame, Agent Orange, The Adolescents, Candy Machine, Henry Rollins, Rancid, Struck Down, Youth of Today, New Mexican Disaster Squad, Near Miss, Crumbsuckers, Stretch Armstrong, D.Y.S., Honor Role, Insted |  |
Minor Threat was the definitive Washington, D.C., hardcore punk band, setting the style for the straight-edge punk movement of the early '80s. Led by vocalist Ian MacKaye, the band was staunchly independent and fiercely sober. Through their songs, the group rejected drugs and alcohol, espoused anti-establishment politics, and led a call for self-awareness. Every song was fast, sharp, and lethal, often clocking in at just around a minute. Their speed and fury often hid their fairly catchy melodies, but the band's main function was to vent rage. Over the course of three years, Minor Threat released two EPs, one album, and several singles, all of which were quite popular in the American punk underground. Their records and concerts helped spawn straight-edge, an American punk lifestyle based on the group's intense, clean-living ideology.
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Release: November 10, 2003
Label: Dischord Records
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Release: February 26, 1990
Label: Dischord Records
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