Legendary DC hardcore band Minor Threat has reunited...for a photo.

Back in the day, I had one of those great “This Is Not A Fugazi T-Shirt” T-shirts. It was produced, presumably, by some canny, anonymous bootlegger, because Fugazi — and by extension, Dischord Records, the label run by Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye — famously refused to make or license T-shirts. (On the back...

Ian MacKaye’s status as reluctant punk godfather was well established before Fugazi played a note. Between fronting seminal DC punk band Minor Threat (whose “Straight Edge” became a misunderstood anthem for an entire movement of sexually repressed hardcore kids) and co-founding legendary DIY label Dischord, MacKaye&...

Surfer Blood covered the Pixies as part of AV Club’s Undercover, the series that recently married the Mountain Goats and Jawbreaker. The Floridians went for “Gigantic” from the 1988 classic Surfer (Blood) Rosa. Keeping with that ’80s-underground vibe, the band’s friend, Girls At Dawn drummer Sarah Baldwi...

Guitarist joins band as they support Arctic Monkeys