The Warmers were an American post-hardcore band based in

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, United States, active from 1994 to 1997. The band was a trio featuring former

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vocalist

Alec MacKaye Alec MacKaye (born 1966) is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the DC hardcore bands Untouchables, The Faith, and Ignition. In the mid-1990s Alec joined the band The Warmers as a vocalist and guitarist. ''Mondo James Dea ...

(guitar and vocals), Juan Luis Carrera (bass and vocals), and

Amy Farina Amy Farina is a musician living in Washington, D.C. As of 2001, Farina has played drums and sings in the Indie rock duo The Evens, which includes her husband, Ian MacKaye. Career Farina has played in The Warmers (which included Ian's younger br ...

(drums), The Warmers recorded for the

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based record label

Dischord Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release ''Minor Disturbance'' by their band The Teen Idles. ...

. Their self-titled album ''The Warmers'', released in February 1996, was praised for its minimalism and Farina's "furious" drumming. “The thing that really knocked me out is the not-drumming in her drumming, where she doesn’t bang where she’s supposed to, and holds off, and then puts it in,” said MacKaye of Farina's style. “The rhythm is just too awesome. Had we gotten a hot-shot guitar player, they might want to rock the guitar a little too hard, and we’d lose the attention to the rhythm.” An EP entitled ''Wanted: More'' was released posthumously in May 2004 and features six songs recorded in December 1996. "Poked It With A Stick", originally from their album ''The Warmers'', is featured on the three-CD compilation album ''20 Years of Dischord''. Farina would go on to form

The Evens The Evens are a Washington, D.C. indie-rock duo, formed in the fall of 2001, comprising partners Ian MacKaye (baritone guitar, vocals) (of Fugazi, formerly of Minor Threat) and Amy Farina (drums, vocals) (formerly of The Warmers). After Ian Mac ...

and

Coriky Coriky is an American punk rock band made up of Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens), Amy Farina ( The Warmers, The Evens), and Joe Lally (Fugazi, The Messthetics). History In 2015, Farina and MacKaye, who played together in The Even ...

with Alec's brother and her husband

Ian MacKaye Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (; born April 16, 1962) is an American musician. Active since 1979, he is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label and the frontman of hardcore punk ...

References

External links

Band Profile on Dischord Records

Official Dischord Records Site
American post-hardcore musical groups Indie rock musical groups from Washington, D.C. {{US-indie-rock-band-stub