Editing Ian MacKaye (section)

===Early bands===
MacKaye's first band consisted of one performance as the Slinkees in the summer of 1979, performing a song titled "I Drink Milk."<ref name="HistPunkRock">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.slowcode.com/published/2006/05/the_ap_history_of_punk_part_x.html |title=The AP History of Punk Rock X: Washington, D.C. |access-date=2007-06-10 |year=1996 |magazine=Alternative Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202152119/http://www.slowcode.com/published/2006/05/the_ap_history_of_punk_part_x.html |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The band also recorded two demo tapes of covers as well as songs that would later be recorded by [[the Teen Idles]].

The Slinkees evolved into the Teen Idles, in which MacKaye played bass guitar and sang back up vocals. The band was short-lived, breaking up in 1980, but released an EP, ''[[Minor Disturbance]]'', the first record from MacKaye and bandmate [[Jeff Nelson (musician)|Jeff Nelson]]'s newly-founded label, [[Dischord Records]].