Dischord Records is an independent record label specializing in the punk rock music of the Washington, D.C., hardcore scene. The company is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded the label in December 1980. Before founding Dischord, both MacKaye and Nelson were members of the Teen Idles, and the label was initially meant to only foster a single release from the defunct band, the Minor Disturbance EP. By the time Dischord #1 was finished, many new bands had emerged from the same music scene, and like the Teen Idles, also began releasing their records through Dischord.
Bands such as Minor Threat, Government Issue, The Faith, Void, Youth Brigade, Iron Cross, Embrace, Rites of Spring, The Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Scream, Soulside, Gray Matter, Jawbox, Marginal Man, Shudder to Think, Dag Nasty, Lungfish and Fugazi have released records on the label. The 2000s saw additions to the Dischord roster like Q and Not U, Beauty Pill, Faraquet, Black Eyes, and The Aquarium, while the 2010s had releases from Office of Future Plans, The EFFECTS, The Messthetics, and archival releases from several early Dischord bands.
Catalog This list is organized by catalog number, a roughly chronological number system established by the label and typically printed on or assigned to each official release. However, unlike many record labels with similar systems, smaller releases such as singles, split albums, and co-releases with other labels have often been assigned a catalog number using a fraction or decimal.
Main catalog {|class="wikitable" ! Year ! No. ! Artist ! Title ! Co-releases !Note |- |2024 |0 |The Slinkees |Who Cares? | rowspan="5" | |Recorded in 1979 |- | style="text-align:center;"|1980 | style="text-align:center;"|1 |Teen Idles |Minor Disturbance | rowspan="7" | |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"|1981 | style="text-align:center;"|2 |State of Alert |No Policy |- | style="text-align:center;"|3 |Minor Threat |Minor Threat |- | style="text-align:center;"|4 |Government Issue |Legless Bull |- | style="text-align:center;"|4.5 |Necros |I.Q. 32 |Touch and Go Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|5 |Minor Threat |In My Eyes |Limp Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|6 |Youth Brigade |Possible
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1982 | style="text-align:center;"|7 |Various Artists |Flex Your Head |Alternative Tentacles(UK release) |Compilation album of 11 D.C. Hardcore bands |- | style="text-align:center;" |7.5 |SSD |The Kids Will Have Their Say |X-Claim Records | rowspan="21" |N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" |8 |Void / Faith |Void/Faith Split
| style="text-align:center;" |8.5 |Iron Cross |Skinhead Glory |Skinflint Records |- | rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |1983 | style="text-align:center;" |9 |Scream |Still Screaming | rowspan="2" | |- | style="text-align:center;" |10 |Minor Threat |Out of Step |- | style="text-align:center;" |10.5 |Double-O |You've Lost |R & B Records |- | style="text-align:center;" |10.75 |Government Issue |Boycott Stabb |Fountain of Youth RecordsGiant Records (2nd pressing) |- | style="text-align:center;" |10.875 |United Mutation |Fugitive Family |D.S.I. Records |- | style="text-align:center;" |11 |Faith |Subject to Change
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |1984 | style="text-align:center;" |12 |Minor Threat |Minor Threat (First Two Seven Inches)
| style="text-align:center;" |13 |Marginal Man |Identity
| style="text-align:center;" |14 |Various Artists |Dischord 1981: The Year in 7s
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1985 | style="text-align:center;" |15 |Minor Threat |Salad Days
| style="text-align:center;" | |Scream |This Side Up |Rough Trade Records |- | style="text-align:center;" |15.75 |Reptile House |I Stumble as the Crow Flies |Druid Hill |- | style="text-align:center;" |16 |Rites of Spring |Rites of Spring
| style="text-align:center;" |17 |Beefeater |Plays for Lovers
| rowspan="5" |1986 | style="text-align:center;" |18 |The Snakes |I Won't Love You 'til You're More Like Me |Discard Records |- | style="text-align:center;" |19 |Dag Nasty |Can I Say
| style="text-align:center;" |20 |Egg Hunt |Egg Hunt
| style="text-align:center;" |21 |Gray Matter |Take it Back
|21.5 |Scream |Banging the Drum | |Test press only |- | style="text-align:center;"|1987 | style="text-align:center;"|22 |Rites of Spring |All Through a Life
| style="text-align:center;"|1986 | style="text-align:center;"|22.5 |Soul Side |Less Deep Inside Keeps |Sammich Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"|1987 | style="text-align:center;"|23 |Beefeater |House Burning Down
| style="text-align:center;"|24 |Embrace |Embrace
| style="text-align:center;"|25 |Scream |Banging the Drum
| style="text-align:center;"|26 |Dag Nasty |Wig Out at Denko's
| style="text-align:center;"|26.5 | |Anger Means / Proven Hollow |Ig Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"|1988 | style="text-align:center;"|26.75 |Shudder to Think |It Was Arson |Sammich Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|27 |Minor Threat |Minor Threat Live
| style="text-align:center;"|28 |Fire Party |Fire Party
| style="text-align:center;"|29 |Soul Side |Trigger |Sammich Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|30 |Fugazi |Fugazi
| style="text-align:center;"|31 |Ignition |Machination |Ig Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1989 | style="text-align:center;"|32 |Various Artists |State of the Union
| style="text-align:center;"|33 |Three |Dark Days Coming
| style="text-align:center;"|1990 | style="text-align:center;"|33.33 |Vile Cherubs |Post Humorous Relief |Cherubic Delusions |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"|1989 | style="text-align:center;"|33.66 |Holy Rollers |Origami Sessions |Adult Swim Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|34 |Soul Side |Bass / 103
| style="text-align:center;"|35 |rowspan="2"|Fugazi |Margin Walker
| style="text-align:center;"|36 |13 Songs
| style="text-align:center;"|37 |Fire Party |New Orleans Opera
| style="text-align:center;"|38 |Soul Side |Hot Bodi-Gram
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1990 | style="text-align:center;"|39 |Ignition |Orafying Mysticle
| style="text-align:center;"|40 |Minor Threat |Complete Discography
| style="text-align:center;"|1989 | style="text-align:center;"|41 |Fidelity Jones |Piltdown Lad
| style="text-align:center;"|1991 | style="text-align:center;"|42 |Holy Rollers |As Is
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="9"|1990 | style="text-align:center;"|43 |rowspan="3"|Fugazi |3 Songs |Sub Pop Singles Club |- | style="text-align:center;"|44 |Repeater
| style="text-align:center;"|45 |Repeater + 3 Songs
| style="text-align:center;"|45.5 |Jawbox |Jawbox |DeSoto Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|46 |Shudder to Think |Ten Spot
| style="text-align:center;"|46.5 |Nation of Ulysses |Nation of Ulysses |K Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|47 |Fidelity Jones |Venus on Lovely
| style="text-align:center;"|48 |rowspan="2"|Gray Matter |Food for Thought
| style="text-align:center;"|49 |Food for Thought/Take It Back
| style="text-align:center;"|1991 | style="text-align:center;"|50 |Skewbald/Grand Union |Skewbald/Grand Union
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|1990 | style="text-align:center;"|50.5a |Lungfish |Necklace of Heads |Simple Machines |- | style="text-align:center;"|50.5b |The Snakes |Happy |Adult Swim Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|51 |Soul Side |Soon Come Happy
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="12"|1991 | style="text-align:center;"|52 |Jawbox |Grippe
| style="text-align:center;"|53 |Dag Nasty |Can I Say / Wig Out
| style="text-align:center;"|54 |rowspan="2"|Shudder to Think |Funeral at the Movies
| style="text-align:center;"|55 |Funeral at the Movies and Ten Spot
| style="text-align:center;"|56 |High Back Chairs |Of Two Minds
| style="text-align:center;"|57 |Nation of Ulysses |13-Point Program to Destroy America
| style="text-align:center;"|57.5 |Severin |Fire and Sand |Superbad Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|58 |Holy Rollers |Fabuley
| style="text-align:center;"|58.5 |Gray Matter |4 Songs |WGNS |- | style="text-align:center;"|59 |Holy Rollers |Fabuley / As Is
| style="text-align:center;"|60 |Fugazi |Steady Diet of Nothing
| style="text-align:center;"|60.5 |Autoclave |Go Far |K Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="12"|1992 | style="text-align:center;"|61 |Jawbox |Tongues
| style="text-align:center;"|61.5 |Desiderata |Desiderata |Desiderata |- | style="text-align:center;"|62 |Nation of Ulysses |The Birth of a Ulysses Aesthetic:The Synthesis of Speed and Transformation
| style="text-align:center;"|63 |Circus Lupus |Super Genius
| style="text-align:center;"|64 |Beefeater |Plays for Lovers and House Burning Down
| style="text-align:center;"|65 |Lungfish |Talking Songs for Walking
| style="text-align:center;"|65.5 |Autoclave |6 Songs |Mira Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|66 |Lungfish |Talking Songs for Walking / Simple Machines
| style="text-align:center;"|67 |Shudder to Think |Get Your Goat
| style="text-align:center;"|68 |Gray Matter |Thog
| style="text-align:center;"|68.72 |Gray Matter / Severin |split |Superbad Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|69 |Jawbox |Novelty
|1993 | style="text-align:center;"|70 |Fugazi |In on the Kill Taker
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="9"|1992 | style="text-align:center;"|71 |Nation of Ulysses |Plays Pretty for Baby
| style="text-align:center;"|72 |Severin |Acid to Ashes and Rust to Dust
| style="text-align:center;"|72.5 |Severin |Smash Hits
| style="text-align:center;"|73 |Circus Lupus |Circus Lupus
| style="text-align:center;"|74 |rowspan="2"|High Back Chairs |Share / One Small Step
| style="text-align:center;"|75 |Curiosity and Relief
| style="text-align:center;"|75.5 |Circus Lupus / Trenchmouth |split |Skene! Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|76 |Shudder to Think |Hit Liquor
| style="text-align:center;"|76.5 |Suture |Suture |Decomposition Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|1993 | style="text-align:center;"|77 |Jawbox |Jackpot Plus!
| style="text-align:center;"|77.7 |Jawbox / Tar |Static (split) |Touch and Go Records |- | style="text-align:center;"|78 |Lungfish |Rainbows from Atoms
| style="text-align:center;"|79 |Circus Lupus |Solid Brass
| style="text-align:center;"|1992 | style="text-align:center;"|79.5 |Hoover |Sidecar Freddie |Hoover Limited |- | style="text-align:center;"|1999 | style="text-align:center;"|80 |Fugazi |Instrument
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="9"|1993 | style="text-align:center;"|81 |rowspan="3"|Scream |Still Screaming / This Side Up
| style="text-align:center;"|82 |Fumble / Banging the Drum
| style="text-align:center;"|83 |Fumble
| style="text-align:center;"|84 |Holy Rollers |Toy
| style="text-align:center;"|85 |Slant 6 |What Kind of Monster Are You
| style="text-align:center;"|85.5 |Rain Like the Sound of Trains |Washington Bullets |Rebel Music |- | style="text-align:center;"|86 |Holy Rollers |Holy Rollers
| style="text-align:center;"|86.5 |Hoover |Private |Hoover Limited |- | style="text-align:center;"|87 |Faith/Void |Faith/Void/Faith
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1994 | style="text-align:center;"|87.5 |Rain Like the Sound of Trains |Bad Man's Grave |Rebel Music |- | style="text-align:center;"|88 |Ignition |Complete Services
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1995 | style="text-align:center;"|89 |Hoover |Lurid Traversal of Rte. 7
| style="text-align:center;"|90 |Fugazi |Red Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|1994 | style="text-align:center;"|91 |Slant 6 |Soda Pop * Rip Off
| style="text-align:center;"|1995 | style="text-align:center;"|91.5 |Norman Mayer Group |Point Blank / Ketchup |Mira Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1994 | style="text-align:center;"|92 |Lungfish |Pass and Stow
| style="text-align:center;"|92.5 |Severin |Upside Down |Superbad Records |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="8"|1995 | style="text-align:center;"|93