No Fun

october 21, 2003  02:18 pm
No Fun
Ian MacKaye's Fugazi has survived 15 years in the music biz without ever coming close to selling out to a major label, all the while holding firm to the quaint notion that it's actually possible to give one's fans more than their money's worth. What could possibly be wrong with that? Plenty, says Michael Little, who complains that the band has "cast a long pall over the Washington, D.C., music scene" and saddled the area with humorless, moralizing music made by people who don't understand that rock is supposed to be hedonistic, degenerate, and lewd.