In an interview with Billboard, drummer extraordinaire Brendan Canty denied that his former band was getting back together any time soon.

Fugazi had been rumored to be reuniting to play Washington, D.C.’s Fort Reno park this fall, but Canty tells Billboard.com “it’s not happening. I don’t know who started that rumor. We would have had to have been practicing. We can all have a moment of silence that day together.”

Canty chalks up Fugazi’s present state of affairs to several logistical reasons, primarily that three members have families, and thus touring would be increasingly difficult.

“The way Fugazi is meant to function is running at full speed,” he says. “When it became half, we dealt with it. At a quarter, when we had to stay home most of the time, suddenly it stopped feeling like Fugazi. Instead of waiting around years to do Fugazi, we said, ‘Let’s run in our separate directions and we’ll revisit it when it comes time.’”

“[But] the compass isn’t pointing in that direction,” he continues, noting that bassist Joe Lally recently moved to Rome. “If it pointed us together and something made sense, sure. I love those guys. They’re my brothers. I could see plugging back in and doing it. We didn’t end fighting and we wouldn’t start again fighting.”

Canty does have some neat-o projects in the pipeline, including a new album with Nation of Ulysses and Make-Up goofenstein Ian Svenonious, and more installments in his nifty Burn to Shine series.

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