Guy Picciotto

Picciotto married musician Kathi Wilcox from the band Bikini Kill and the Frumpies; as of October 2016 the two were living in Brooklyn with their 10-year old daughter.

Picciotto has produced four albums by the duo Xylouris White: Goats (2014), Black Peak (2016), Mother (2018) and The Sisypheans (2019)

In 2012 Picciotto was interviewed on stage at the Pop Montreal festival by Howard Bilerman about his experiences in the music industry.

Picciotto played on the Vic Chesnutt albums North Star Deserter (2007) and At the Cut (2009), and accompanied him on a 2009 Fall/Winter North American Tour. He co-produced the films Chain and Museum Hours with Jem Cohen (who made the Fugazi film Instrument).

From the Margin Walker EP on, he also took up 2nd guitar duties, playing characteristically trebly Rickenbacker guitars. After seven albums (13 Songs, Repeater, Steady Diet of Nothing, In on the Kill Taker, Red Medicine, End Hits, The Argument), and several tours, Fugazi went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2003.

Picciotto has collaborated and performed with Mats Gustafsson, Vic Chesnutt, and members of the Ex among others. He has also produced numerous albums including the Gossip's breakthrough record Standing in the Way of Control as well as Blonde Redhead's Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000), Misery Is a Butterfly (2004), The Blood Brothers final album, Young Machetes, and Downtown Boys' Cost of Living (2017).

Picciotto's early musical resume also includes the bands One Last Wish (1986), Happy Go Licky (1987–1988), Brief Weeds (EPs released circa 1991–1992), and The Black Light Panthers (ongoing sporadic project since 1982), the last two bands both being projects with Brendan Canty. He also created a record label called Peterbilt Records, which released limited-quantity vinyl record albums for the bands Rain, Happy Go Licky, and Deadline, then years later was involved in releasing the album 1986 by One Last Wish, along with Dischord Records.

Picciotto's musical career began in 1984, with the group Rites of Spring. A part of the D.C. post-hardcore scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with its compositional rules. Picciotto, as the band's lyricist, as well as singer and guitarist, also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, is generally credited with creating emo.

Guy Charles Picciotto (Italian: [piˈt͡ʃt͡ʃɔːtto] ; born September 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer from Washington, DC.