REM * Accelerate * Music Poster 2' x 3' NEW 2008 > Large Wall Size 24" inches wide by 36" inches high NEW. For the April 1st 2008 release of the new Album from REM " Accelerate ".R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by Michael Stipe (lead vocals), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass guitar), and Bill Berry (drums and percussion). R.E.M. was one of the first popular alternative rock bands, and gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's unclear vocals. R.E.M. released its first single, "Radio Free Europe", in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone. The single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982, the band's first release on I.R.S. Records. In 1983, the band released its critically acclaimed debut album Murmur, and built its reputation over the next few years through subsequent releases, constant touring, and the support of college radio. Following years of underground success, R.E.M. entered the mainstream in 1987 with the hit song "The One I Love". The group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide.By the early 1990s, when alternative rock began to experience broad mainstream success, R.E.M. was viewed as a pioneer of the genre and released its two most commercially successful albums, Out of Time (1991) and Automatic for the People (1992), which veered from the band's established sound. R.E.M.'s 1994 Monster was a return to a more rock-oriented sound. The band began its first tour in six years to support the album; the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three band members. In 1996, R.E.M. re-signed with Warner Bros. for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract in history. The following year, Bill Berry left the band amicably, with Buck, Mills, and Stipe continuing as a three-piece. Through some changes in musical style, the band continued its career into the next decade with mixed critical and commercial success. In 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Accelerate is the fourteenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008 in Europe, and on April 1 in North America. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate is intended as a departure from the band's poorly-received 2004 album Around the Sun. R.E.M. previewed several of the album's tracks during a five-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, and recorded the album in a nine-week schedule. The first single from the album, "Supernatural Superserious", was released in February 2008. Critic David Fricke praises the group's aggressive sound on the new album Accelerate , writing, "Stipe has not sounded this viscerally engaged in his singing and poetically lethal in his writing since the twilight of the Reagan administration." NME, similarly applauding the group's return to their previous sound, gave Accelerate an eight out of ten rating, and concluded, "Accelerate is by some considerable distance R.E.M.'s best and most cohesive album since [former drummer Bill Berry] left, and crucially echoes a time when they made their best music, if not necessarily their biggest-selling." This New Original Poster is Large Wall Size : 2' feet wide by 3' feet high ( 24" inches wide x 36" inches high ) and printed in Brilliant Razor-sharp Tri-Tone production on thick heavy chrome-coat advertising poster stock paper. This is the RARE Official Advertising Poster for the April 1st 2008 release of the new R.E.M. album " Accelerate ". It is printed in Limited Edition. A very Beautiful Poster featuring a beautiful high-contrast Black & White graphic illustration of an Abstract Cityscape. A great R.E.M. collectible in Mint NEW Condition .Check this site for more information on R.E.M.'s new album > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerate_%28R.E.M._album%29 . Gently Rolled and carefully placed in a heavy duty tube and shipped U.S.Postal Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation / Tracking. Please email with any questions before purchasing if you are unsure about something. We ONLY accept Money Orders , Cashiers Checks or U.S. Cash as payment ( we do NOT accept personal checks or online payment at all ). Please email about local pick-up , we are located in NYC in Times Square. All International Customers MUST email us before purchasing this item.
