FUGAZI - Fugazi Vinyl LP

Before there was a music industry playbook for doing it yourself, Fugazi just did it. No major label, no merch tables of overpriced garbage, $5 shows forever. The 1988 self-titled EP is where Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto first locked into something that would rewrite what hardcore could be, angular and urgent and smarter than anything else on the shelf.

Seven tracks that sound like a band figuring out they don't have to play by anyone's rules. "Waiting Room" alone justifies the existence of post-hardcore as a genre. This is the record that launched a thousand zines, a thousand bands, and a genuinely different way of thinking about what punk ethics actually look like in practice. If you know, you know. If you don't, start here.

Vinyl LP (EP). Post-hardcore, punk. USA. Originally released 1988 on Dischord Records. Pressing varies.

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