Ian MacKaye. American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and owner of DIY label Dischord. Enough said. One of my personal favorite artists and frontman of one of my favorite bands, Fugazi.

After Fugazi entered a hiatus, Ian MacKaye focused on ‘The Evens’, a two-piece, Washington, D.C. based band reveling in an unusual type of short-circuiting experimentation in the conventional realm of indie rock. Their self-titled album, ‘The Evens’, was released in March 2005 and was followed by ‘Get Evens’ in 2006. Both solid records. If you were to make up a genre, it would be post-post hardcore. Amy Farina holds it down on drums, and you might recognize her name from such bands as ‘The Warmers’, ‘Ted Leo’, and ‘The Pharmacists’.