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Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C-based record label specializing in D.C.-area independant punk music. The company is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded the label in 1980 to release records by local hardcore punk bands. Bands such as Minor Threat, Embrace, Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, Dag Nasty, and Fugazi have released records on Dischord. It is most notable for having maintained a strict do-it-yourself ethic, producing all of its albums by itself, without the help of major distributors.
Dischord was a focal label in the early days of hardcore, and one of the more famous independent labels, along with the likes of Alternative Tentacles. Early productions by Dischord were relatively well produced compared with other punk and hardcore distributions of the time. Minor Threat's early work is an example of this.
Recent bands to join Dischord include Q and Not U, Beauty Pill, and Black Eyes.
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