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What No Sleep depicts is a much looser time, after disco and before the gilded age of mega-clubs and luxury bottle service, when the only guiding ethos was that anything was worth a try. <b>The New Yorker</b><b>.. .a crucial history of New York's influential club life through the flyers that advertise so many concerts and parties... <b>Fact Magazine<i> A glorious era of hip-hop, house, and avant-garde cardboard artwork reflecting the energy of the downtown music scene. <b>MEDIUM Cuepoint If that nostalgic feeling of golden era hip-hop flyers hits you like it hits me, this would be the book for you. <b>Okayplayer Recently, Armstrong has been looking back at these halcyon days, culminating in the release of<i>No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999</i>, a visual history of flyers from a musical era in New York that might never be matched in terms of scale, independence and sheer creativity. <b> <b><b>Red Bull Music Academy</b></b> .. .it commemorates a unique time and place that was a sanctuary for so many. <b>The Fader The pages of the book are as densely papered as a downtown telephone pole, as the plywood face of a construction fence; No Sleep is as frenetic, overstimulating, and intense as the scene it conjures. <b>Vogue No Sleep serves as a visual timeline or maybe even a trip down memory lane for any hip-hop history buff. <b>XXL As Seen In: </b> Amuse, i-D, Jocks and Nerds, PAPER Magazine, Vanity Fair, and VICE.

What No Sleep depicts is a much looser time, after disco and before the gilded age of mega-clubs and luxury bottle service, when the only guiding ethos was that anything was worth a try. <b>The New Yorker</b><b>.. .a crucial history of New York's influential club life through the flyers that advertise so many concerts and parties... <b>Fact Magazine<i> A glorious era of hip-hop, house, and avant-garde cardboard artwork reflecting the energy of the downtown music scene. <b>MEDIUM Cuepoint If that nostalgic feeling of golden era hip-hop flyers hits you like it hits me, this would be the book for you. <b>Okayplayer Recently, Armstrong has been looking back at these halcyon days, culminating in the release of<i>No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999</i>, a visual history of flyers from a musical era in New York that might never be matched in terms of scale, independence and sheer creativity. <b> <b><b>Red Bull Music Academy</b></b> .. .it commemorates a unique time and place that was a sanctuary for so many. <b>The Fader The pages of the book are as densely papered as a downtown telephone pole, as the plywood face of a construction fence; No Sleep is as frenetic, overstimulating, and intense as the scene it conjures. <b>Vogue No Sleep serves as a visual timeline or maybe even a trip down memory lane for any hip-hop history buff. <b>XXL As Seen In: </b> Amuse, i-D, Jocks and Nerds, PAPER Magazine, Quartz, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and VICE.

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Adrian Bartos akaStretch Armstrongis a world renowned DJ, record producer, and radio personality. He's been a fixture in the New York hip-hop scene and clubsince the late 80s, when he started DJing downtown and making his own concert flyers with cardboard, scissors, and glue. In 1990 he co-created the ""Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show"" on WKCR 89.9, whichThe Sourcemagazine later named ""The Greatest Hip-Hop Radio Show of All Time."" Stretch and Bobbito introduced the world to Jay Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Eminem, and dozens of other seminal figures in hip-hop. In 2015 Stretch co-produced the critically acclaimeddocumentary about the show ""Stretch and Bobbito: Radio that Changed Lives."" Evan Auerbach is the most popular hip-hop historian on the internet. His career as a blogger and archivist has made him the #1 source for providing rare hip-hop memorabilia to the masses, and his website UpNorthTrips continues to be pivotal in sparking a modern wave of obsession with hip-hop flyers, promo material, and posters. A walking encyclopedia of rap knowledge, Evan has played an essential role in revitalizing music media's nostalgia for 90s ephemera and landmark hip-hop events.

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