Fugazi have introduced that, beginning this month, they’re releasing a choice of their archival live performance recordings on Bandcamp and streaming providers. The post-hardcore luminaries are releasing the primary two installments, recordings of their first-ever present on September 3, 1987, and to-date ultimate efficiency on November 4, 2002, this Friday (Might 2). Extra dwell live performance tapes shall be uploaded every month on by the top of 2025.
Whereas this makes listening to previous Fugazi dwell exhibits simpler for sure followers, it’s not the primary time the Washington, D.C., punks have launched these recordings. The entire Fugazi Dwell Sequence archive—which incorporates over 800 live shows—has been and stays out there on-line over at Dischord. The vast majority of these exhibits had been recorded by Fugazi’s sound engineers, and can be found to obtain for a small worth alongside previous flyers, gig images, and common present data.
Again in 2023, a 90-minute-long assortment of “crowd-sourced, fan-recorded dwell exhibits and uncommon archival footage” referred to as We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC screened in a couple of film theaters to have fun the twentieth anniversary of the band’s final public present. A number of the footage in that movie was shot by filmmaker Lance Bangs, and tickets had been, fittingly, solely $5.
Fugazi went on indefinite hiatus on the finish of 2002. Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty began numerous side-projects through the years, together with the Evens, the Messthetics, and Coriky. In the meantime, Man Picciotto has produced albums for Blonde Redhead, the Blood Brothers, Gossip, and lots of others. Fugazi have denied rumors of a reunion time and time once more, however they do nonetheless play music collectively in non-public only for enjoyable.
Examine Repeater in “The 150 Finest Albums of the Nineties” and revisit the essay “Fugazi Returns… By means of Opera?”
