question: What genre of music, rooted in 1960s garage rock, does Dischord Records specialize in?
answer: Punk rock
context: Title: List of garage rock compilation albums
  Passage: This is a list of compilation albums featuring recordings entirely or mostly in the garage rock style of music, including variations of the genre ranging from basic garage rock and frat rock to folk rock-influenced and psychedelic garage rock.  Most of the recordings compiled on these albums was originally recorded in the period between 1963-1968 in the United States and Canada.  However, the list also includes compilations of recordings made outside of North America, in places such as Great Britain, Continental Europe, Latin America, and the far East, which are sometimes considered as counterparts or variants of the garage rock style (and are sometimes referred to as "Freakbeat," "Nederbeat", or "Group Sounds," as well as "beat" or "garage rock").  When known, the city, state, country or region of origin of is given in parentheses.  "US" covers the United States of America, while "UK" covers all parts of the United Kingdom (England, Ireland, Wales, etc.).  "Mixed" means that the music comes from many parts of the world even if individual volumes within a series concentrate on a particular country or region.  The list also contains sections devoted to later garage rock subgenres.  The Nuggets and Pebbles albums were the pioneering series, so they are listed first, followed by the remainder in alphabetical order.
  Title: The Choir (band)
  Passage: The Choir was a garage rock band largely active in the greater Cleveland area from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s.  Originally called The Mods, their largest commercial success came with the release of their first single "It's Cold Outside" in December 1966.  The song, considered by many to be a classic of the garage rock era, was featured on "Pebbles, Volume 2", one of the earlier garage rock compilation LPs (issued in 1979).  The flipside, "I'm Going Home" was included as a bonus track when the Pebbles album was reissued as a CD, and it can also be found on a garage rock compilation LP on Ohio bands, "Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 9".  The Choir is well known for containing three of the four original members of Raspberries (all except lead singer Eric Carmen).
  Title: Dischord Records discography
  Passage: Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music 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.
  Title: State of the Union (album)
  Passage: State of the Union: D.C. Benefit Compilation is a compilation album, compiled by Mark Andersen, that was released on Dischord Records.  It catalogued the DC sounds of the late 1980s, and was created for the American Civil Liberties Union and Community for Creative Non-Violence.  All proceeds from the sales of the album were given to these two groups.  The LP version is now out of print, but the CD version is still available on the Dischord Records website (as of 5/22/08).
  Title: Dischord Records
  Passage: Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk rock music of the D.C.-area music scene.  The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release "Minor Disturbance" by The Teen Idles.  Along with other independent American labels such as Twin/Tone, Touch and Go Records, and SST Records, Dischord helped to spearhead the nationwide network of underground bands that formed the 1980s indie-rock scene.  These labels presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging.
  Title: French Toast (band)
  Passage: French Toast is a band from Washington, D.C., formed in 2001 as a duo consisting of James Canty and Jerry Busher.  They added a third member, Ben Gilligan, in 2005.  Dischord's website has James Canty credited with guitar, vocals, keyboards and drums, and Jerry Busher is credited with bass, drums, vocals, and keyboards.  However, all three members rotate instruments when the group is playing live.  They released the "Bugman" EP in 2002 and the "Hatred Mace" single in 2003, both on Arrest Records.  In 2005, they released their first LP, "In A Cave", on Dischord Records.  In 2006, they released their sophomore full-length album, and first as a three-piece Ingleside Terrace, also available on Dischord Records.
  Title: Rozzlyn Rangers
  Passage: Rozzlyn Rangers was the name taken by the 5 original members of the Dischord House in Arlington, Virginia (fairly near Rosslyn, Virginia) in October 1981: Ian MacKaye, Jeff Nelson, Rich Moore, Eddie Janney, and Sab Grey.  Dischord House housed Dischord Records (founded a year earlier by The Teen Idles, shortly thereafter to be run by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson).  Despite its terribly low ceiling, many DC punk bands practiced in its basement over the years: Minor Threat, Skewbald, Iron Cross, The Faith, Second Wind, Rites of Spring, Embrace, Three, Fugazi, Beefeater, Fidelity Jones, Happy Go Licky, Kingface, One Last Wish, The Evens.
  Title: Kent Stax
  Passage: Kent Stax is the original and current drummer of the DC hardcore punk band Scream, considered, with perhaps the exception of Minor Threat (both of these bands recorded on the now famous underground Dischord Records label), one of the most influential and successful hardcore punk band to emerge from the music movement which thrived during the 1980s.  Along with brothers Franz and Peter Stahl and bassist Skeeter Thompson, Stax helped create the lightning-fast tempo that was a trademark of the punk rock genre.  Considered one of the fastest and most energetic drummers in the field at that time, his talents lent themselves to keeping a thrashing powerful musical force under control, giving Scream its homegrown reputation as pioneers in the genre which transcended into some international notoriety.  In the late eighties Stax left the band for personal reasons and David Grohl, a local drummer who was working with local band Dain Bramage replaced the longtime drummer.  Stax played drums in a series of bands throughout the 1990s that drew influence from English punk and Oi music, most notably The Suspects (a band that had many muttering about a DC hardcore revival not seen since 1983) United 121 and Spitfires United.  In the 2000s he played drums in the DC Oi-core band Alleged Bricks.
  Title: The Midnite Sound of the Milky Way
  Passage: The Midnite Sound of the Milky Way is a garage rock compilation available on compact disc put out by Big Beat Records (UK) that consists of songs recorded at the Midnite Sound recording studio in Danville, Illinois during the 1960s.  The Midnite Sound studio one of many such venues pushing out obscure garage rock in the mid-1960s.  The set was compiled by Alec Palao, who also wrote the liner notes.  The compilation features twenty four tracks by different various artists who recorded there, and all except four have not been previously compiled.  The Midnite Sound recording were often typified by an echo-laden sound, giving them a characteristically "outer space" vibe.  The performers tended to be, even by 1960s garage rock norms, untutored and naively strange and noncommercial racket.  The groups and artists who recorded at Midnite Sound tended to be less British Invasion-influenced than most, sometimes displaying rockabilly and pre-Beatles stylistics.  The best-known act to record for the label was rockabilly/garage rocker Dean Carter, who is known for the song "Rebel Woman", which has appeared on several other compilations such as his "Call of the Wild" anthology on Big Beat Records.  He does not appear on this set, but two performers here, George Jacks and The 12th Knight, do renditions of the song.
  Title: Punk rock
  Passage: Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.  Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.  Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.  Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels.
citations: Dischord Records discography Punk rock