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Long after early Dischord hardcore bands Small Threat and Grey Matter split up, 3 strings players in the latter as well as the percussionist in the former made a decision to event. Initially, in the springtime of 1986, Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson attempted pairing with Grey Matter alums …

Offering a distaff version from the easygoing, sun-and-surf folk-rock of Jack port Johnson or Ben Harper, Hayley Sales also prices comparison to more musically expansive alternative folkies like Erin McKeown as well as Suzanne Vega. The girl of a documenting engineer, Hayley Product sales was created in Washington, D.C., and …

Following the demise of D.C.’s much-loved, lovingly ferocious Rites of Springtime, the music group briefly re-formed, with minor lineup changes, to be the similarly short-lived One Last Want. One Last Want is well known for relentlessly cathartic and uplifting live performances, shown years later within the posthumous launch of their …

Vocalist Amy Pickering, bassist Kate Samworth, guitarist Natalie Avery, and drummer Nicky Thomas were Fireplace Party, a Washington, D.C.-structured band that documented for Ian MacKaye’s Dischord label. Produced in 1986, the quartet released a self-titled six-song EP in 1988 and an record known as New Orleans Opera the next year. …

Among the less celebrated rings around the Dischord label, Ignition mainly offered D.C.-design emocore from the post-Fugazi/Rites of Spring/Dag Unpleasant variety. Vocalist Alec MacKaye — sibling of Fugazi’s Ian, and previously from the Untouchables as well as the Trust — reteamed with ex-Faith bandmate Chris Bald, right now on guitar …

A formidable punk music group of its period, Soul Side may be completely forgotten if it weren’t for the actual fact that three-quarters from the music group (alongside Soul Side’s maker, Eli Janney) continued to form Women Against Boys. Spirit Side was a significant music group for the 1980s Washington …