Fugazi

Take The Mars Volta, Rodriguez-López's most successful project, a band that crams Santana, Rush, Fugazi, Mexican cumbia and Miles Davis into a dissonant, virtuosic blur. Read More

In 1994, Chisel relocated from Indiana to D.C., falling in alongside such local heroes as Fugazi, Jawbox and the Dismemberment Plan, and working to establish themselves in the local scene. Read More

The upstairs room of the pub is packed. Read More

Fugazi knew how to wield music like a weapon in a way few others can match. Read More

It is truly incredible how an entire music scene can boil down to just one band. Read More

The Dischord scene was already moving out of the long shadow of Fugazi, but the debut from this coed D.C. duo is still a surprise. Read More

Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren't going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. Read More

Bert Genovese speaks with a slight British inflection, signs his e-mails "Cheers" and makes fun of my "Connecticut drawl" during our recent phone interview, but he's just being sassy with that last bit, because this boy is from Wolcott, Conn., himself. Read More

Some people might recognize Kenny Vasoli as the lead singer of The Starling line, a band known for its mix of punk–pop and indie influences. Read More

JOE LALLY was inspired to take up the bass guitar after seeing Minor Threat and Dag Nasty in action. Read More