No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999

paul cantor said Beautiful reproductions of the flyers and a grab-bag of interesting. To know a city, and I mean to truly know it, you must know it at night. For that's the time when a city truly comes alive.Beautiful reproductions of the flyers and a grab-bag of interesting first-person accounts brings to life this book that documents, through visual storytelling, what New York nightlife was during the late 80's and 90's.In all, it helps paint a picture of what the Big Apple was once like. And though it will never be like that again, to be able to visit it mere. "and there is no better storyteller than the author" according to Sammy Gergis. This book is a thoughtful, and necessary collection of flyers (and memories) definitive of the period's music, encapsulating a significant part of the cultural narrative at the time. The 1990's was a boon for many genres of music, particularly hip-hop and house, and there is no better storyteller than the author, Stretch Armstrong. Perusing each page of flyers gives the reader the sensation of entering a time machine and re-living the music, attitudes, and moments of a by-gone,. This book is a time machine! Great book, as someone who was going to clubs during most of this period it feels like a time machine. Great coffee table book.

. "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." —The New Yorker"a crucial history of New York's influential club life through the flyers that advertise so many concerts and parties"—Fact Magazine"A glorious era of hip-hop, house, and avant-garde cardboard artwork reflecting the energy of the downtown music scene." —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." —Okayplayer"Recently, Armstrong has been looking back at these halcyon days, culminating in the rel

No Sleep is a visual history of the halcyon days of New York City club life as told through flyer art. Spanning the late 80s through the late 90s, when nightlife buzz travelled via flyers and word of mouth, No Sleep features a collection of artwork from the personal archives of NYC DJs, promoters, club kids, nightlife impresarios, and the artists themselves. Club flyers, by design, were ephemeral objects distributed on street corners, outside of nightclubs and concert halls, in barbershops and retail shops, and were not intended to be preserved for posterity. Overnight, however, with the advent of the internet, the flyer essentially disappeared, despite it being common at one time for promoters to print thousands of flyers for any given event. Through the 90s, they became both increasingly prevalent and more sophisticated as printing technology evolved. Recently, these flyers have become sought-after collector's items.

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. He's been a fixture in the New York hip-hop scene and club since the late 80s, when he started DJing downtown and making his own concert flyers with cardboa