Brian Baker, playing with en:Bad Religion, live in the Netherlands, 1995
Dag Nasty é uma banda punk rock estadunidense, [1][2] formada em Washington D.C., no ano de 1985 pelo guitarrista Brian Baker do Minor Threat, o baterista Colin Sears e o baixista Roger Marbury, ambos da Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, e o vocalista Shawn Brown (mais tarde do Swiz e Jesuseater). Seu estilo é, hardcore melódico, portanto menos agressivo que o hardcore tradicional,[3] influenciados pela banda The Faith em seu EP de 1983 Subject to Change.[4]
↑Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. New York: Feral House. p. 157. ISBN0-922915-71-7. During the 'Revolution Summer' of '85 many harDCore types reinvented themselves. 'Emo,' for emotional post-Hardcore, described the move to softer, more emotive music, embodied in Ian [MacKaye]'s project Embrace, Brian Baker's Dag Nasty, Thomas Squip's Beefeater, Kingface with Mark Sullivan, Bobby Sullivan's Lunchmeat, and Rites of Spring with Guy Picciotto and Eddie Janney.
↑Greenwald, p. 14. "Ian Mackaye was such a huge Rites of Spring fan that he not only recorded what was to be the band's only album in 1985 and served as a roadie for them while on tour, but his own new band, Embrace, explored similar themes of self-searching and emotional release. Other peers followed suit, including Grey Matter, the archly political and arty Beefeater, and Fire Party, whom Jenny [Toomey] termed 'the world's first female-fronted emo band.'"
↑Cogan, Brian (2008). The Encyclopedia of Punk. [S.l.]: Sterling. pp. 66–67. ISBN978-1-4027-5960-4