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  Dischord Records /band/fugazi
Fugazi is a band from Washington, D.C. They played their first show on September 3, 1987 and since then they have released seven albums and toured the world extensively covering all fifty United States, Europe, Australia, South America, Japan and many points in between.
Fugazi's most recent musical releases are "The Argument" 10 song album and the "Furniture" 3 song single, both recorded in the spring of 2001 and released in the fall of 2001.
Fugazi is currently on an indefinite hiatus as they tend to young families and other musical projects.
www.dischord.com /band/fugazi   (253 words)

  
  Fugazi (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fugazi blend elements of punk rock, hardcore soul and noise with an inventively syncopated rhythm section often steeped in dub or reggae influence.
Fugazi's unusual experimental sound influenced some later punk music groups, and has proven difficult to categorize neatly; they've been classified as post punk and post-hardcore.
Fugazi are currently on what the band describes as a "hiatus," partly brought on by the recent forays into fatherhood by Canty and Lally, and may or may not reunite in the future.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fugazi_(band)   (951 words)

  
 Fugazi - Satan Stole My Teddybear
Fugazi simply shredded away many of the pretenses found within hardcore and punk and created a unique sound that made the most of the band's cumulative talents.
Fugazi helped redefine the "post-punk" genre as well as inspire multitudes of bands to approach their guitars in a completely different manner.
While Fugazi has been a bit more sporadic in their touring and album releasing schedules, they certainly cannot be faulted for putting out subpar material for the sake of having another release out.
www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=468&showReview=true   (2491 words)

  
 Fugazi: A Mission To Never Agree - Article - Stylus Magazine
Fugazi’s first two e.p.’s and seven inch, while not having been granted the monumental status of their later full length albums, are essential listening for anyone interested in the band.
Fugazi didn’t stop caring about writing quality material or assembling great albums, they simply stopped caring about the external forces – their recorded past, outside expectations, consideration of how new music will be received – that make recording so difficult.
Fugazi then proceed to sew an extended ending onto the seat of the song that is virtually unrelated to the rest of the song.
www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=4   (8283 words)

  
 Prindle Record Reviews - Fugazi
FUGAZI is one of the few bands that possess this guitar sound, along with DRIVE LIKE JEHU (who were, by the way, one of the most original, powerful and intelligent bands around).
Fugazi home pages with user surveys all show SDON being voted last, and practically every Fugazi fan I've talked to has said that this album is their least favourite.
Fugazi's ideas and sound remind me a lot of the Minutemen (another favourite group of mine), but unfortunately they aren't half as prolific as Mike Watt and co. used to be.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Studio/5552/fugazia.html   (7170 words)

  
 Fugazi: The Argument: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Of course, one primary obstacle to a public memorial for the members of Fugazi is the band's collective politics which, while moralistic and anti-corporate, are hardly anti-capitalist as many have claimed.
The juxtaposition between shockingly smooth vocals (for Fugazi, anyway), and the jagged rhythmic interplay is extremely effective.
Fugazi have made a career out of crafting excellent albums, and with The Argument, they've made one of their best.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/fugazi/argument.shtml   (1097 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Fugazi
Yet those are the shoes in which Fugazi has stood now for more than a decade, producing pure, high-intensity punk rock of rare intelligence and artistry without any concession to the tug of commercialism or the internal tensions that usually cause such high-minded organizations to implode.
Staunch and vocal opponents of senseless violence, exploitation, alienation, stardom and conformity, the modest but explosive Fugazi is a knuckle sandwich made with nine-grain bread, building strong minds and bodies with rattling guitar power.
Fugazi put the relatively slick sound of Margin Walker up on blocks and stripped it down to the bare essentials for the group's first full-length LP.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=fugazi   (1264 words)

  
 Downhill Battle - Ian MacKaye Interview (Fugazi)
And his current band Fugazi is it's own legend-- they're about as big as a band can get without signing to a corporate label and about as independent and principled as a band can be without living in a closet.
Fugazi's fans worship the band and it's influence on music is everywhere.
Fugazi is an exception, and a few other bands have been able to do it but really it's the result of years and years of work and eventually things start to come together.
www.downhillbattle.org /interviews/ian_mackaye.php   (2835 words)

  
 Fugazi Keep It "Real" at the Roxy (NY Rock Concert Review)
Fugazi's gig at the Roxy December 1999 gave further proof of this and though I've seen them a half-dozen times before, something about this show made me realize just how awesome a live band they are.
I find it quite a paradox that Fugazi retain such a stringent anti-moshing policy during their concerts because their power-punk anthems are custom designed to send you up into the air like a pogo-stick juiced up with "low-rider" hydraulics.
Both bands are ultra tight in concert, but Fugazi's sound is sharper than a box-cutter while the Dead's earthy jams had the tinsel strength of a hackey sack.
www.nyrock.com /reviews/2000/fugazi.htm   (784 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - FUGAZI POSTPONE UK TOUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Fugazi have postponed what was to be their first tour of the UK and IRELAND since 1999.
A statement has been issued, that reads: "It is with deep regret that we must announce the cancellation of Fugazi s UK and Eire dates in June, due to the sudden death of an immediate family member.
"Fugazi apologise to their fans and hope they will be understanding of these exceptional circumstances.
www.nme.com /news/101927.htm   (222 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 1 - Most Punk - Fugazi Profile
Fugazi developed a unique experimental sound based on syncopated rhythms - one that has earned them the monicker, the 'thinking person's modern hardcore band'.
Fugazi are known as much for their DIY values as their music.
Fugazi's own record of the time, Red Medicine, proved just as abrasive and disciplined an exercise as usual.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio1/mostpunk/profiles/fugazi.shtml   (389 words)

  
 Fugazi: Repeater ---Ink Blot Magazine
Fugazi is a band from Washington, D.C. They played their first show in the fall of 1987 and since then they have released 7 albums and toured the world extensively, covering all 50 United States, Europe, Australia, South America, Japan, and many points in between.
In addition to their recorded output Fugazi have released a documentary film/video called Instrument in collaboration with independent filmmaker Jem Cohen.
Fugazi's most recent musical releases are Repeater 10-song LP and the Furniture 3-song single, both recorded and released in the fall of 2001.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Fugazi_Repeater.htm   (519 words)

  
 VH1.com : Fugazi : Biography
If history is kind to Fugazi, their records won't be overshadowed by their reputation and methods of operation.
To many, Fugazi meant as much to them as Bob Dylan did to their parents.
Fugazi's energetic shows became the stuff of legend, known for the level of emotional release and Picciotto's wild stage antics as much as the band's anti-moshing stance.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/fugazi/bio.jhtml   (1057 words)

  
 Punknews.org | Fugazi - Red Medicine
The first Fugazi album I bought was repeater like 3 years back (I think...) and I didnt like it at all for the first couple of listens.
While Fugazi definitely don't have the influence-by-numbers of the Beatles, I think they are kind of the Beatles of the underground.
I can never pick a favorite Fugazi album...but the first 4 songs on this one are four of the best songs they have ever written, and hearing them back to back to back to back is great.
www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=4494   (2469 words)

  
 Amardeep Singh: Fugazi's Resonance; Amherst's smallpox blankets
Fugazi shows were, aside from everything else, experiences of being in an unpredictable, wild, crowd, intoxicated by the power to reject the external authority.
I was never a cultist, but in my late teens I did turn to Fugazi for something to believe in, and was disappointed that in life Ian MacKaye refused to claim the prophetic role he assumed vocally in Fugazi's songs.
Similarly, Fugazi's famous anti-rape song “Suggestion,” is a little unpolished, and it ends with an unfortunate choice of phrase: “We are all guilty.” But this song too uses dramatic pauses to draw the listener in before nailing (him) for his complicity.
www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/05/fugazis-resonance-amhersts-smallpox.html   (1041 words)

  
 lazyeye band profile: Fugazi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto talk about life, music and keeping it real after a decade of being the most honest band in America.
Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, both songwriters and vocalists, know that their legendary flip of the bird at the corporate rock establishment has long ago become their calling card.
It's a shame that their anti-corporate status has at times overshadowed their music, because Fugazi is one of the truly original indie rock bands whose sound is both angry and cathartic without being overtly distorted and ugly.
www.timmcmahan.com /fugazi.htm   (1738 words)

  
 SOUTHERN | fugazi
Fugazi bass player, Joe Lally, has announced the launch of a new website to sell CDs of the first of the many live recordings Fugazi has collected over the band's 15+ year career.
PLEASE NOTE that while the Fugazi Live website is an official site run by the band, it is NOT a part of the regular Dischord.com webstore.
Fugazi's latest releases are a 10 song album called "The Argument" (CD/LP) and a 3 song single, "Furniture + 2" (Cd single/7").
www.southern.com /southern/band/FUGAZ   (760 words)

  
 Eye - Fugazi - the fun guide - 07.16.98
Fugazi songs are heavy and groovy and catchy all at once.
Fugazi take a dryer on the road with them so they can do their own laundry.
Fugazi is the title of an album by Marillion, an English band that used to have a singer named Fish.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.16.98/music/fugazi.html   (867 words)

  
 Fugazi (band) at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Fugazi is a band from Washington, D.C. It is fronted by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Guy Picciotto of the Rites of Spring, both of which were seminal bands of the 1980s.
It is a mix of traditional rock roots blended with chaotic elements that combine noise, an inventively lsyncopated rhythm section rooted in dub reggae influence, unusual chords, and emotional intensity.
This style has led many critics to call their music post-hardcore, as it is seen as a progression of and a reaction to the hardcore punk movement.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Fugazi_(band).html   (311 words)

  
 Fugazi: The Argument (2001): Reviews
Though Washington D.C. hard rockers Fugazi have been together for almost 15 years, this is just their eighth full-length release.
With 'The Argument' arriving awash in the unmistakably sinewy and elliptic post-hardcore sound Fugazi have made their own (sonically at least) this is more or less business as usual.
the fugazi have always been an great band, but with this album they finally put the nail in the coffin of all the people that punk is artless noise.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/fugazi/argument   (620 words)

  
 Fugazi (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Fugazi (formed 1987) is an alternative rock band from Washington, D.C. After the seminal hardcore punk group Minor Threat dissolved, Ian MacKaye (vocals and guitar) formed a new trio, Fugazi, with drummer Brendan Canty and bass guitarist Joe Lally.
Fugazi blend elements of noise with an inventively syncopated rhythm section often rooted in dub or reggae influence; They often feature unusual chords, and emotional intensity.
They have rarely charged more than $5-10 admission to their live shows, and have kept their album prices at about $10.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Fugazi_(band)   (281 words)

  
 Sponic Zine - Music Reviews - Fugazi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Fugazi has evolved so much musically over all their record that they now seem like an instruction manual on how to start a movement.
There are only a few bands out there that haven't been influenced by Fugazi and for a very good reason.
This soundtrack to the film that documents part of Fugazi in great depth, is itself a document.
www.sponiczine.com /review_detail.asp?wfArtist=Fugazi   (167 words)

  
 Fugazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This resulted in the backronym "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In", a U.S. Army slang from the Vietnam war era, meaning chaotic, out-of-control fighting, especially in jungle warfare.
Fugazi (band), a punk band from Washington, D.C. Fugazi (album), a 1984 studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named Fugazi.
Fugazi (WWII), Japanese deserters during World War II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fugazi   (163 words)

  
 Fugazi: Fugazi Live Series, Vol. 1: September 3rd, 1987: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It's a shame that Fugazi tend to be more revered as a business model than a band.
On this street that Fugazi treaded, major-label A&R scouts or carpetbaggers loitered in the local veterans' halls, recruiting the disillusioned with brochures featuring the smiling faces of Hüsker Dü and The Replacements and obscuring memories of fallen heroes Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys.
Fugazi's confidence in their musicianship spurts in "Word", as they march through a pogoing conversation between bass and guitar, and then slow it down to a dub space-out.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/fugazi/fugazi-live-series-vol-1.shtml   (640 words)

  
 fugazi
as for fugazi's record sales we generally sell between 100-200,000 of each release which would be small potatoes to a major label but for an independent is quite a bit.
we had all been in a bunch of bands before fugazi and this time we were determined to do it right from the start.
he has been filming fugazi for the last 11 years in a variety of formats (super 8, 16mm and video) and we've finally consolidated the footage into a 2 hour movie which we will release as a video through the dischord label early next year.
www.pittiplatsch3000.de /fugazi.html   (2591 words)

  
 Morphizm.com -- Interview with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi
But for about a decade and a half, Fugazi has proven that it's vastly more complicated, to the point that perhaps the term "punk" itself can be considered reductive.
What Fugazi have brought to the table is a strict DIY work ethic, some of the most diverse musical compositions you will likely encounter from one band, and enough conscientious lyricism to make your average punk -- and mainstream media fan(atic) -- think twice about what is going on in the world.
So it comes as to no surprise to anyone -- except Fugazi, perhaps -- that one of their finest albums to date, The Argument, was released hot on the heels of yet another American war full of sound and fury.
www.morphizm.com /recommends/fugaziguy.html   (1625 words)

  
 KindaMuzik - Interview: Fugazi - Fugazi
Taking their name after army terminology for "fucked up situation", Fugazi have been going at it since 1987.
Fugazi for a long time wasn't enough to live off.
Joe used to manage a club here in Washington called DC Space and now outside of Fugazi he runs a label called Tolotta Records which puts out records by a group called Spirit Caravan.
www.kindamuzik.net /q_and_a/article.shtml?id=382   (1565 words)

  
 U-WIRE.com/CD REVIEW: Fugazi experiments with 'The Argument'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
But although that may be the prevailing picture of Fugazi, that is just one minor facet of a very complex sound-making machine.
The group is made up of five very inventive musicians who have limited themselves not one iota in all of their musical endeavors.
Still, "The Argument" is Fugazi's most experimental album yet, excepting the soundtrack to the documentary on the band, "Instrument." It incorporates piano, cello and extra percussion into the standard bass/drums/guitars/vocals rock format.
www.uwire.com /content/topae101501003.html   (456 words)

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