Editing Ian MacKaye (section)

==Personal life==
MacKaye currently lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Amy Farina and their son Carmine Francis Farina MacKaye, who was born on May 24, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=This Is a Birthday Pony|url=http://dcist.com/2008/05/27/this_is_a_birth.php|work=DCist|publisher=Gothamist LLC|access-date=April 27, 2013|date=May 27, 2008|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230514/http://dcist.com/2008/05/27/this_is_a_birth.php|archive-date=February 12, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2012, MacKaye's wife threw him a surprise 50th birthday party which included many guests from the late 1970s and early 1980s DC punk/hardcore scene, many of whom had not seen each other in 20 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wtop.com/news/2012/04/inside-dc-punk-legend-ian-mackayes-surprise-50th-birthday-party/slide/8/|title=Inside D.C. punk legend Ian MacKaye's surprise 50th birthday party|date=April 29, 2012|website=Wtop.com|access-date=January 6, 2018}}</ref>

MacKaye's younger brother [[Alec MacKaye]] has also been active in several notable bands, such as [[Untouchables (D.C. band)|Untouchables]], [[The Faith (American band)|the Faith]], Ignition and [[The Warmers]], which included Ian's wife Amy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mark Andersen & |first=Mark Jenkins|title=Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital|year=2003|publisher=Akashic Books|isbn=1-888451-44-0|pages=44}}</ref> His musical collaborations with Ian are limited but he is known for appearing in the iconic photograph used for many [[Minor Threat]] releases including ''[[Complete Discography (Minor Threat album)|Complete Discography]]''.

He has been close friends with [[Henry Rollins]] since childhood<ref>{{cite web | url=http://welcometoflavorcountry.com/2011/06/27/interview-with-ian-mackaye/ | title=Interview with Ian Mackaye | publisher=welcometoflavorcountry.com | date=June 27, 2011 | access-date=2011-12-09 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121095151/http://welcometoflavorcountry.com/2011/06/27/interview-with-ian-mackaye/ | archive-date=January 21, 2012 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> and was the first person to take the stage at Rollins' 50th birthday performance at the [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] Explorers' Hall in Washington DC on February 13, 2011.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406090.html | title=Punk and politics: Henry Rollins toasts to his 50th | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=February 15, 2011 | access-date=March 20, 2014 | author=Jenkins, Mark}}</ref>  They speak to each other every week by phone, usually on Sundays.<ref name = JRE>{{cite episode | title = Henry Rollins | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpaX2j75UKk | series = Joe Rogan Experience | series-link = Joe Rogan Experience | number = 906 | access-date = April 9, 2018 | archive-date = March 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180310215629/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpaX2j75UKk&gl=US&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>

Despite persistently voting [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]], MacKaye does not explicitly consider himself a Democrat. He has explained that he votes solely for the politician he believes is least likely to engage in war. He also noted that he had voted for [[Barack Obama]] in the 2008 presidential election.<ref>{{cite news|last=Calle|first=Jacob|title=Interview: Ian MacKaye|url=http://www.freepresshouston.com/music/interview-ian-mackaye/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924015639/http://www.freepresshouston.com/music/interview-ian-mackaye/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|newspaper=Free Press Houston|access-date=October 11, 2012}}</ref> When further probed for a summation of his political views, he explained: <blockquote>My rule of thumb in terms of voting for presidential elections always boils down to one thing. Whoever becomes the president of this country is what the people of this country deserve, because it was either they voted for that person or they allowed that election to be rigged, or they didn't put enough of a fight about it. However, the rest of the world does not deserve whoever our president is. It shouldn't be their problem at all. It's our problem. Our country has an enormous impression on the rest of the world. In my opinion at least, the most visceral effect on the rest of the world is war, essentially murder. This country has excelled in murdering people in other places, certainly in the last 10 years. So my rule of thumb in terms for voting is voting for the person who is electable and is least likely to engage in war. And that is it. It's a very simple equation.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.onesmallseed.com/2013/09/issue-25-full-interview-ian-mackaye-the-political-is-personal/| title=Ian MacKaye: The Political is Personal| publisher=One Small Seed| date=September 3, 2013| access-date=July 22, 2014| archive-date=July 28, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728042401/http://www.onesmallseed.com/2013/09/issue-25-full-interview-ian-mackaye-the-political-is-personal/| url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>