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Sometime yesterday, I started seeing this floating around MySpace:

Ian Mackaye, lead singer of influential hardcore band Minor Threat as well as Fugazi passed away today in a Baltimore hospital room. Outside a Fugazi show in New Jersey last night, the singer was struck by a car passing by the front of the Ventura Theatre. Brunswick police say that the driver allegedly stopped, but then fled the scene. There is now a police investigation underway.

Mackeye was rushed to St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, where he was pronounced dead this morning at 6am. This is a tragedy for the underground music as a whole and we need to stand together at this time of loss.

A tragedy indeed: Ian Mackaye is pretty much the originator of both DC hardcore and emo, a constant proponent of DIY, and well-known for continuing to sell his label's records at $10 postage paid (vinyl or CD). It's a true loss.

Also, it's not a true story.

The Baltimore Sun:

"I am happy to report that I am not dead," says MacKaye.

Not sure where the hell this came from. It's almost as weird as the MySpace story of Don Bolles from the recently-regrouped Germs arrested on GHB charges for having Dr. Bronner's soap (or the ironic version, "Germ arrested for soap"), from a few months back. Except that turned out to be true. But rest assured, DIY's leading man will continue to be around in order to do swell things like this.

After all, we still need someone other than Rollins to be in every punk documentary ever made.