Dominic Umile
@dominicumile.com
Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, WCP, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. SEO person. Brooklyn, NY.
I hate board games.
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Dominic Umile
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· Aug 5
Happy 60th anniversary to the earliest Velvet Underground demos (May, 1965!). Lucky for you, here are more than 2,000 words on their "Boston era" (📸: Gerard Malanga) www.dominicumile.com/blog/velvet-...
You could do a lot worse this weekend than to listen to Bill Evans' Portrait in Jazz. It was recorded in NYC on Dec. 28, 1959, so just tell your family it's holiday music. There's an affordable (not analog) 2011 OJC reissue that sounds rich and full if you're not too picky youtu.be/ik6LNd9KZwU?...
[MONO LP] Bill Evans Trio – Portrait In Jazz
YouTube video by BlueNote 33RPM
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December 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
You could do a lot worse this weekend than to listen to Bill Evans' Portrait in Jazz. It was recorded in NYC on Dec. 28, 1959, so just tell your family it's holiday music. There's an affordable (not analog) 2011 OJC reissue that sounds rich and full if you're not too picky youtu.be/ik6LNd9KZwU?...
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honored to have contributed to POW's end-of-year lists once again, this time with a lil blurb about BabyChiefDoIt's "WENT WEST." albums list out tomorrow; tap in!
December 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
honored to have contributed to POW's end-of-year lists once again, this time with a lil blurb about BabyChiefDoIt's "WENT WEST." albums list out tomorrow; tap in!
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Been here 19 years. Dont know if I've heard anyone who lives here ever call it the Big Apple
December 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Been here 19 years. Dont know if I've heard anyone who lives here ever call it the Big Apple
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This was one of the most incredible live shows I have ever attended — archive.org/details/low1...
Low Live at Miramar Theatre on 1999-03-27 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1. I Remember 2. Starfire 3. Don't Understand 4. Weight Of Water 5. Violence 6. Shame 7. Fear 8. Lust 9. Immune 10. Lion/Lamb 11. Soon 12. Home 13. No...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This was one of the most incredible live shows I have ever attended — archive.org/details/low1...
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i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
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Merry Christmas! This is the earliest recorded DJ set I know of.
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BC153 - Francis Grasso, The Sanctuary, New York, 1971
Merry Christmas! Here's the earliest club set we've come across yet
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December 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Merry Christmas! This is the earliest recorded DJ set I know of.
open.substack.com/pub/michaela...
open.substack.com/pub/michaela...
"Exactly how long they played is unclear. According to Garcia, it was only five minutes. They weren’t obligated to perform if they didn’t want to. But others remember the band going for hours" | @thebanderson.bsky.social on the Acid Test that launched the Dead www.altaonline.com/culture/musi...
December 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Exactly how long they played is unclear. According to Garcia, it was only five minutes. They weren’t obligated to perform if they didn’t want to. But others remember the band going for hours" | @thebanderson.bsky.social on the Acid Test that launched the Dead www.altaonline.com/culture/musi...
Season’s greetings to 2025’s rappers and producers who had my ear:
Clipse
Rome Streetz
Conductor Williams
Alchemist
Larry June
Ransom
Mobb Deep
DJ Premier
Westside Gunn
Freddie Gibbs
Nowaah the Flood
Your Old Droog
Daringer
Raekwon
7xvethegenius
Daniel Son
Boldy James
Estee Nack
Crimeapple
V Don
Clipse
Rome Streetz
Conductor Williams
Alchemist
Larry June
Ransom
Mobb Deep
DJ Premier
Westside Gunn
Freddie Gibbs
Nowaah the Flood
Your Old Droog
Daringer
Raekwon
7xvethegenius
Daniel Son
Boldy James
Estee Nack
Crimeapple
V Don
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Season’s greetings to 2025’s rappers and producers who had my ear:
Clipse
Rome Streetz
Conductor Williams
Alchemist
Larry June
Ransom
Mobb Deep
DJ Premier
Westside Gunn
Freddie Gibbs
Nowaah the Flood
Your Old Droog
Daringer
Raekwon
7xvethegenius
Daniel Son
Boldy James
Estee Nack
Crimeapple
V Don
Clipse
Rome Streetz
Conductor Williams
Alchemist
Larry June
Ransom
Mobb Deep
DJ Premier
Westside Gunn
Freddie Gibbs
Nowaah the Flood
Your Old Droog
Daringer
Raekwon
7xvethegenius
Daniel Son
Boldy James
Estee Nack
Crimeapple
V Don
Very reasonable holiday music www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7w...
Rain, Sleet, Snow
YouTube video by Paul Revere & The Raiders - Topic
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December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Very reasonable holiday music www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7w...
“'I didn’t know if that was a real thing,' Duwaji says when I tell her that women are asking their hairstylists for 'the Rama'" www.thecut.com/article/rama...
Rama Duwaji, First Lady of New York City
The 28-year-old artist is excited for her husband Zohran Mamdani’s new job. Just don’t call her the mayor’s plus one.
www.thecut.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“'I didn’t know if that was a real thing,' Duwaji says when I tell her that women are asking their hairstylists for 'the Rama'" www.thecut.com/article/rama...
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Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students.
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
A Bay Area Librarian Is Using Vintage Vinyl to Show Tweens Where Music Comes From
Gina Cargas reached out to the community about collecting records for her middle school students. The response was overwhelming.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students.
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
"Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."
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i don't know if i've ever posted about the 1959 project here but it's one of my biggest accomplishments to date i think the1959project.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
i don't know if i've ever posted about the 1959 project here but it's one of my biggest accomplishments to date i think the1959project.com
So deeply real. "We’re all piecing together income however we can, showing up where steady work exists. We have responsibilities and ambition. We’re trying and adapting" www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/3...
31-year-old scoops ice cream on the side for $16.50/hour to make ends meet in this job market: ‘There is zero shame in it'
Kaila Curry expected to work with teenagers. But "I found myself surrounded by people who, like me, had already built careers and are now navigating an unpredictable job market."
www.cnbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So deeply real. "We’re all piecing together income however we can, showing up where steady work exists. We have responsibilities and ambition. We’re trying and adapting" www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/3...
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Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god
"You cannot say ‘this song’s gonna to be timeless’ because you don’t know. With Fairytale of New York, I think we did make timeless art"—Life of the Record on the Pogues' holiday classic lifeoftherecord.com#/the-pogues/ @lifeoftherecord.bsky.social #drunktank
Life of the Record
Life of the Record is a documentary podcast about how iconic albums are made. Featuring the voices of the creators, each episode delves into the writing, recording and touring of a record that became ...
lifeoftherecord.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"You cannot say ‘this song’s gonna to be timeless’ because you don’t know. With Fairytale of New York, I think we did make timeless art"—Life of the Record on the Pogues' holiday classic lifeoftherecord.com#/the-pogues/ @lifeoftherecord.bsky.social #drunktank
Love Sonny Rollins’s East Broadway Run Down—thrilling and free-ish (but not off the wall). Session pairs Rollins w/ Freddie Hubbard and Coltrane all-stars Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Dig Jones’s superb work on a lively go at “We Kiss in a Shadow” (Club Ed., late '60s reish? early 70s?) #jazz #np
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Love Sonny Rollins’s East Broadway Run Down—thrilling and free-ish (but not off the wall). Session pairs Rollins w/ Freddie Hubbard and Coltrane all-stars Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Dig Jones’s superb work on a lively go at “We Kiss in a Shadow” (Club Ed., late '60s reish? early 70s?) #jazz #np
Feel terrible for anyone trying to use the L or the G shuttle today in order to go anywhere in Brooklyn
December 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Feel terrible for anyone trying to use the L or the G shuttle today in order to go anywhere in Brooklyn
Summer Pierre's comics and zines are absolutely consistently great summer-pierre.com bsky.app/profile/summ...
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Summer Pierre's comics and zines are absolutely consistently great summer-pierre.com bsky.app/profile/summ...
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
Only to be surpassed by "and you're surprised?"
Still trying to figure out what the kink is for people who go around replying “this isn’t new.”
December 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Only to be surpassed by "and you're surprised?"
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The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Files: My observations
Nothing to See Here
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December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
"Take a break with a LinkedIn puzzle game"
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Take a break with a LinkedIn puzzle game"
Looking forward to this
Happy to share this first taste from Running with the Devil, a project I’ve been developing with my friend @conradflynn.bsky.social about rock and the occult. Naturally, the place to start with rock and the occult is the Rolling Stones. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Running with the Devil: The Rolling Stones
Part One: Play With Fire
substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Looking forward to this