“Bruce Licher’s career exemplifies the entrepreneurial, do-it-yourself ethos that few designers and artists embrace today… Exploiting the potential rawness and imperfection of letterpress printing, Licher uses inks that don’t completely cover his surfaces, and he allows relief characters to bite into the page…  The graphic identity for Independent Project Press revels in the material qualities [...]

Andy Grooms’ record Grateful To Burn begins with the words “unsung songs” and ends with “that’s where I’ll find the unspoken truth“. This wasn’t a conscious decision on his part; no “hidden message” to decipher. But it does, in a sense, sum up what Grateful To Burn gives the listener or rather what it indelibly [...]

Andy Grooms has no biography. He isn’t definable. Nor is he separate from those who know him or his work. He isn’t definable because Andy Grooms writes much as the great Werner Herzog directs and narrates: he takes the outward landscapes of life and proves that they are, in truth, our own personal monologues and [...]

Hi Electric.. Enigmas are easy to come by these days. Pseudo-sensitive art-as-rock bands dripping irony from their records like blood from their teeth. So I suppose that, in reality, the enigmatic is found in the band that refuses to be an enigma. Memphis, Tennessee has been repeatedly stabbing itself in the back and refusing to [...]