The Residents CUBE E Poster - At Florence Gould Hall, Rex Ray - 1989 - RARE

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This rare Residents CUBE E poster features artwork by Rex Ray.
Cube-e
the history of American music in 3 e-z pieces
At Florence Gould Hall, January, 1989.
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llustration and typography by Rex Ray.
At the French Institute - alliance francaise - 55 East 59th Street.
This was removed from a wall, hence it's condition;
Rough, wrinkled, and ready to frame.
** Free shipping.
The group chose its name after sending a demo tape, anonymously but with a return address, to Warner Bros. Records. It was rejected and returned, addressed to “Residents.”
The Residents were more than a band: They were performance and visual artists, critics and deconstructors of pop culture, and pioneers of music videos.  Their cacophonous, gleefully absurdist music presaged forms of punk, new wave and industrial music.  “Strangled-sounding vocals have long been characteristic of their recordings, along with crunching electronic drones that retain a homemade, low-tech quality,” the New York Times pop music critic Robert Palmer wrote in 1986.
Mr. Fox said the group’s sound was rooted in traditional rock ’n’ roll and meant to challenge what the music had become.Though the Residents admired “bubble-gum music” for its “simplicity, its directness and its ability to affect the public,” he told The San Francisco Chronicle in 1997, the Residents sought something different: “Grating. Raw. Basically everything that rock ’n’ roll should be — and pop had ceased to be — with people banging on things and creating a tribal attack on these bubble-gum songs.”Residents shows were phantasmagoric affairs, often incorporating video art, psychedelic sets and bizarre costumes. Band members covered their heads with masks that looked like enormous bloodshot eyeballs wearing top hats. The number of musicians onstage ranged from three to nine.
~ Daniel E. Slotnik