I’m a person just like you, but I’ve got better things to do… Ian Mackaye never intended to lead the straight edge revolution. Songs like “I’m Straight” and “Keep it Clean” prove that the punks had restraint before the Dischord-boom. That being said, Ian’s high school band Teen Idles did put out the Minor Disturbance EP, their only release, with younger brother, Alec MacKaye’s valiant, X’d up fists on its cover. The X’s, now a symbol of the anti-inebriation subculture, was meant to signify…

If you’re familiar with the hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s, you’ll be familiar with the term ‘straight edge’. For those of you who aren’t, let me give a sho…

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