Spoke: Images and Stories from the 1980s Washington, DC Punk Scene [Hardcover]

The pictures, which include some posed portraits but are mostly concert shots, are the chief attraction. They freeze moments of adolescent release, vein-bulging intensity and sweaty communion that fuses performer and audience...Vivid and evocative.
--Washington Post

Scott Crawford, the man behind the acclaimed documentarySalad Days, has given us another taste of the best-kept secret of 80s in his new bookSpoke: Washington DC’s hardcore punk scene.
--Dazed

With music by Minor Threat, Void, Rites of Spring, Government Issue, and many others propelling the story of hardscrabble, Reagan-era D.C. as the hotbed for a new artistic outlet inSalad Days, Crawford saw the book as a way to scoop up important narrative from the cutting-room floor and find a new home for it.
--Fast Company

Pockmarked with burned-out buildings and boarded-over storefronts, Northwest DC was once home to a vibrant and sometimes violent punk movement beginning in the early 1980s. For geeky 12-year-old Scott Crawford, that changed everything: He chucked comic books for punk rock and self-published a music zine from his mother’s kitchen table in Silver Spring. This month, Crawford releases a book about those days,Spoke--a companion to his 2014 documentary,Salad Days--featuring stories from local players such as Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, and Ian MacKaye.
--Washingtonian Magazine

Spoke...adroitly uses both photographs and oral histories to capture the importance of what can best be described as a cultural revolution within the nations capital.
--Shepherd Express

This coffee table version of the documentary [Salad Days] follows the D.C. scene’s often politically-charged brand of punk rock, from Bad Brains to Jawbox, and of course the legendary Fugazi. And there’s even the near-forgotten SOA, whose lC