From "23 Beats Off" to "Walken's Syndrome," host Ian James Wright and a rotating cast of guests talk about every song by the band Fugazi, not chronologically, but in alphabetical order. Email: fugaziAtoZ@gmail.com
Albini Sessions
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity (https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity)
Kreative Kontrol
http://vishkhanna.com/ (http://vishkhanna.com/)
Shellac's "Watch Song" by The Messthetics, James Brandon Lewis, Land of Talk, & Vish Khanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRK3Wa1vzI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRK3Wa1vzI)
Chris Richards on Albini Sessions
https://thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/i-will-not-lie-i-will-not-lie-i-will (https://thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/i-will-not-lie-i-will-not-lie-i-will)
DirtyBooksFX
https://www.instagram.com/dirtybooksfx (https://www.instagram.com/dirtybooksfx)
Alphabetical Fugazi Patreon
patreon.com/thealphabeticalfugazi (https://patreon.com/thealphabeticalfugazi)
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19 Feb 2022
thanks
The Alphabetical Fugazi Facebook group
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This Is Not a Fugazi Appreciation Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fugazi.appreciation.group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fugazi.appreciation.group)
Visualizing the History of Fugazi by Carni Klirs
https://www.carniklirs.com/project/fugazi (https://www.carniklirs.com/project/fugazi)
Gunter Habets' reviews
https://anothersievefistedfind.tumblr.com/ (https://anothersievefistedfind.tumblr.com/)
An image of the podcaster right before interviewing Ian & Guy
https://i.imgur.com/mNRuco7.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/mNRuco7.jpg)
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12 Feb 2022
Wrapping up with IAN MACKAYE and GUY PICCIOTTO
Ian MacKaye with some working titles
https://i.imgur.com/kDaV4Xi.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/kDaV4Xi.jpg)
"Survival" by Prince Far I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNlMvVR93i0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNlMvVR93i0)
My Korg DT-1 tuner
https://i.imgur.com/hjEFR0k.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/hjEFR0k.jpg)
Guy Picciotto's "guitanjo"
https://i.imgur.com/jemecjC.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/jemecjC.jpg)
A few addenda from Guy:
"I’m pretty sure the working title 'Na Na Na' was the song Target. The 'na na na' would have been the opening note sequence that Ian and Joe played and I seem to recall when we were writing it / rehearsing there was some singing along of 'na na na na na na .. na na na na na' which made us all laugh."
"The demo for INSTRUMENT and REND IT from Inner Ear that I mentioned was also significant in terms of writing the song INSTRUMENT. When we tracked it originally the guitars played thick chords all through the song with no dynamics – it was basically just a wall of guitars the whole way through. I think we even played it live that way for a while – where it was a more grungy noise thing. While doing the demo we struggled mixing it and couldn’t get it to work – it was just too monolithic and muddy. At some point I just started playing the mute buttons on the mixing desk to drop the guitars out during the verses so the bass part could be revealed and that was the key to making that song work and from there we totally re-arranged it to allow all that air back into the song that wasn’t there before. I feel like that was a significant stage for us in terms of changing the way we thought about our music and our mixes in terms of carving space.'
"I need to confirm this with Ian but after listening I’m pretty sure the computer in COMBINATION LOCK is saying 'Wait a minute…. I forgot my combination'. Because of the janky algorithm it sounds like 'Wait a min-oot …. I forgot my combination'. That seems to match my memory of it but if Ian has a different take I’ll let you know."
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Inside a recent episode
Albini Sessions with Vish Khanna
Published 14 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I'm, I'm pleased that that happened and we got, we got to pay tribute to Steve. Speaking of things that we're pleased happened, you know, we've been dancing around it. Steve Albini, Fugazi. And the reason we're here is this surprise release that happened a few days ago, as we speak now, where they finally did it. They decided to release the Albini sessions, all the songs that would become In on the Killtaker as recorded. In Chicago, I went back and listened to some of the conversations, as I think you did, Vish, on your podcast. There's an episode where Ian is talking to Steve and they talk about this. […]
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