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By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorYou know everything about Ian MacKaye that there is to know. You can probably sing along to all the songs on the Minor Threat discography and have memorized ever lyric on every Fugazi release. You might own the record… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic Contributor"Beautiful, funny people. Generous to and respectful of the people they work with. Inspirational in a lot of ways. Maybe the best band." - Steve Albini on Fugazi From their first public performances in 1987 to… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorNow confident behind the boards, Red Medicine is the first broad expansion of their musical palette. The hard strumming on "Do You Like Me?" almost sounds like furious, heavy...indie pop. (After all, Fugazi had a… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorIn some ways, End Hits is a cruelly slept-on masterpiece, an ode to the emotional entropy inherent in long-term punkhood. Musically, it's a continuation of Red Medicine's innovations — obtuse structures and spiky, almost teetering… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorRecorded in the first quarter of 2001 and released in October of that year, The Argument was Fugazi's final album before going on indefinite hiatus in late 2002. It's regarded by many as their best;… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorThis is the pseudo soundtrack to the documentary of the same name made by the band with long-time ally Jem Cohen, who has made films with R.E.M. and the late Vic Chesnutt. There's nothing hugely… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorIf 13 Songs was a soup of dubbed-out Stooges songs, Repeater boiled it all down to screeches and thuds, welding shards of feedback, bass thrum and tom rolls — a sound as stark as the… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorKill Taker arrived as the rise of alternative rock no longer seemed like a fluke, but a historical inevitability. Wisely re-teaming with Nicely after an abortive session with Steve Albini, Killtaker was the closest the… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorA divisive record, Steady Diet is seen as either a fan favorite or Fugazi's least-loved LP. Attempting to produce themselves, the quartet created a weirdly flat, bone-dry recording, an on-off binary between open silence and… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorNot an album but a double EP comprised of 1988's self-titled debut and the following year's Margin Walker. That the two work so well together — Fugazi with underrated hometown producer Ted Nicely; the second… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorCritics adored Fugazi's 2001 album The Argument, but for me, 1998's End Hits was the cruelly slept-on masterpiece, an ode to the emotional entropy inherent in long-term punkhood. The pro-immigration "Place Position" insists on porous… more »

By Joe Gross, eMusic ContributorUnderground leaders at the time but all but unknown compared to, say, Pearl Jam, Fugazi released this album as the rise of alternative rock no longer seemed like a fluke but a historical inevitability. After… more »

By Mark Jenkins, eMusic ContributorThis album combines the two EPs that introduced Fugazi and their fiery post-hardcore style, and some of its most robust and memorable songs. In a successful (and soon influential) attempt to unbalance slam dancers, the… more »

By Mark Jenkins, eMusic ContributorRecorded as crack-fueled warfare was driving the D.C. murder rate to inconceivable levels, Fugazi's first full album takes its title from a song about deals and death: "You say I need a job/ I've got… more »