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.
dominicumile.com
I hate board games.
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Lee Morgan's City Lights—as well as his seemingly underrated (?) Sixth Sense LP—is getting the Tone Poet treatment. The early 2000s-era Scorpio reissue we have, a $10 record at the time, is apparently a grail of sorts to at least one Discogs user 🙃 jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/so-many-to...
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Lee Morgan's City Lights—as well as his seemingly underrated (?) Sixth Sense LP—is getting the Tone Poet treatment. The early 2000s-era Scorpio reissue we have, a $10 record at the time, is apparently a grail of sorts to at least one Discogs user 🙃 jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/so-many-to...
Still got the CD edition from way back when!
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Still got the CD edition from way back when!
Touched lots of very expensive records at @wfmu.bsky.social’s reliably wild record fair. Brought home some that weren’t expensive! (LPs, not 45s, but both formats are in abundance!)
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Touched lots of very expensive records at @wfmu.bsky.social’s reliably wild record fair. Brought home some that weren’t expensive! (LPs, not 45s, but both formats are in abundance!)
Just saw Lisa MacKinney's book 'Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded Legacy' in person at a nearby shop and it looks great www.versechorus.com/dressed-in-b...
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just saw Lisa MacKinney's book 'Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded Legacy' in person at a nearby shop and it looks great www.versechorus.com/dressed-in-b...
NY'ers, go VOTE and then see Sir Don McCullin's work at Hauser & Wirth—gripping photojournalism from war zones and more www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth...
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NY'ers, go VOTE and then see Sir Don McCullin's work at Hauser & Wirth—gripping photojournalism from war zones and more www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth...
On the intimate NYC jazz nightspot where patrons sip cheap beer and spin rare 78 RPM discs "made in the 1910s to ’50s" (🎁 link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/a...
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
On the intimate NYC jazz nightspot where patrons sip cheap beer and spin rare 78 RPM discs "made in the 1910s to ’50s" (🎁 link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/a...
Your Monday Matisse—"Icarus," a cut-out that may "refer to the risks of artistic creation, especially as a form of cultural resistance" www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
![Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Icarus, plate VIII from the illustrated book "Jazz," 1947. Pochoir, 16 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (41.9 x 26 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace, 1983 (1983.1009[8]). © 2020 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wsbrgnakfgfkmljy3rz2th4d/bafkreihytgvnaesxvaxe6di6l2oogcqil7dtiehpjuiu2dt5bfrfewnlxq@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Your Monday Matisse—"Icarus," a cut-out that may "refer to the risks of artistic creation, especially as a form of cultural resistance" www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
While Gordon Matta-Clark is known for his '70s-era large-scale site-specific art, he also chronicled the rise of graffiti www.curbed.com/article/gord...
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
While Gordon Matta-Clark is known for his '70s-era large-scale site-specific art, he also chronicled the rise of graffiti www.curbed.com/article/gord...
Richard Neutra’s Case Study House no. 20 hits the market for a cool $10.5M—here's a PBS doc on the Case Study House program (lemme get dat Alvar Aalto armchair and the Nelson bench thx) www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbou... 📸: Julius Shulman photography archive, Research Library, Getty Research Institute
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Richard Neutra’s Case Study House no. 20 hits the market for a cool $10.5M—here's a PBS doc on the Case Study House program (lemme get dat Alvar Aalto armchair and the Nelson bench thx) www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbou... 📸: Julius Shulman photography archive, Research Library, Getty Research Institute
And let’s hear it for Abstract Expressionist artist and RCA records secretary Olga Albizu, who picked up work as a cover artist at RCA when a colleague hung her paintings in her office, where art director Bob Jones got wind of 'em—covers at Verve followed (via www.bloomsbury.com/us/jo%C3%A3o...)
October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And let’s hear it for Abstract Expressionist artist and RCA records secretary Olga Albizu, who picked up work as a cover artist at RCA when a colleague hung her paintings in her office, where art director Bob Jones got wind of 'em—covers at Verve followed (via www.bloomsbury.com/us/jo%C3%A3o...)
Would totally hang in Gilles Peterson's North London listening space/studio timecapsulesound.substack.com/p/the-green-... (📸: Will Tsukuda)
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Would totally hang in Gilles Peterson's North London listening space/studio timecapsulesound.substack.com/p/the-green-... (📸: Will Tsukuda)
Latest episode of very cool Ithaca, NY radio show "Call to the Universe" hosted by online buddy Niko ushering in fall w/ appropriate funk, jazz, airy psych sounds (even though it is 80 degrees in Brooklyn) www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms... #nowplaying
October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Latest episode of very cool Ithaca, NY radio show "Call to the Universe" hosted by online buddy Niko ushering in fall w/ appropriate funk, jazz, airy psych sounds (even though it is 80 degrees in Brooklyn) www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms... #nowplaying
I wrote about Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Book One for the @chicagoreader.com back in 2017 (@fantagraphics.bsky.social has issued a box set w/ books one and two) chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I wrote about Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Book One for the @chicagoreader.com back in 2017 (@fantagraphics.bsky.social has issued a box set w/ books one and two) chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...
At @theconversation.com, Edward Avery-Natale on "the heyday of the anarchist-inflected punk scene in Philly in the 1990s and 2000s" (Ink & Dagger photo by the talented homie Justin Moulder—"you won't change into me / you won't, you won't") theconversation.com/how-philly-a...
September 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
At @theconversation.com, Edward Avery-Natale on "the heyday of the anarchist-inflected punk scene in Philly in the 1990s and 2000s" (Ink & Dagger photo by the talented homie Justin Moulder—"you won't change into me / you won't, you won't") theconversation.com/how-philly-a...
"Millions of artists have made waves, but not like this"—Upcoming Phillips auction features 27 Raymond Pettibon works www.phillips.com/article/1619... #art
September 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"Millions of artists have made waves, but not like this"—Upcoming Phillips auction features 27 Raymond Pettibon works www.phillips.com/article/1619... #art
In NYC you can wander into a beautiful bar like BierWax on a *Monday* for a happy hour beer, no cover charge, and maybe you’ll catch a DJ set by one of the producers behind the likes of Black Moon and Smif-n-Wessun. Sure we have our complaints about the MTA and pricey restaurants etc but come on
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In NYC you can wander into a beautiful bar like BierWax on a *Monday* for a happy hour beer, no cover charge, and maybe you’ll catch a DJ set by one of the producers behind the likes of Black Moon and Smif-n-Wessun. Sure we have our complaints about the MTA and pricey restaurants etc but come on
"An outpouring of creativity" with "few parallels in the history of popular music" materialized during a particularly brutal period in Brazil www.stereophile.com/content/bril...
September 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"An outpouring of creativity" with "few parallels in the history of popular music" materialized during a particularly brutal period in Brazil www.stereophile.com/content/bril...
Rare NYC DJ set from rap producer Daringer—the architect of the gritty Griselda sound—this Saturday in Brooklyn at Please Tell Me on Metropolitan Ave. And it looks like you’ll be home at a very reasonable hour! First set at 3PM, Daringer at 6PM
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Rare NYC DJ set from rap producer Daringer—the architect of the gritty Griselda sound—this Saturday in Brooklyn at Please Tell Me on Metropolitan Ave. And it looks like you’ll be home at a very reasonable hour! First set at 3PM, Daringer at 6PM
A new mural in Philly's Fishtown neighborhood has popped up. Love you, Philadelphia www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
August 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A new mural in Philly's Fishtown neighborhood has popped up. Love you, Philadelphia www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
Rest now, designer Joe Caroff—love this 1964 poster, with its lively typography, Pop Art color scheme, and leaping Beatlemaniacs www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
August 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Rest now, designer Joe Caroff—love this 1964 poster, with its lively typography, Pop Art color scheme, and leaping Beatlemaniacs www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
From the wonderful @sonormusiceditions.bsky.social, a reissue of the rare 1969 'IO E MARA' LP by composer Alberto Baldan Bembo. How about that cover art, tho? Lemme tell you about the artist Guido Crepax www.dominicumile.com/blog/comics-...
August 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
From the wonderful @sonormusiceditions.bsky.social, a reissue of the rare 1969 'IO E MARA' LP by composer Alberto Baldan Bembo. How about that cover art, tho? Lemme tell you about the artist Guido Crepax www.dominicumile.com/blog/comics-...
Closing today: “Robert Indiana: The American Dream” at PACE Gallery in NYC. A small but mighty show focused on the cultural and political issues that the artist explored in his paintings and sculpture. Don’t skip the terrace on this pleasant Friday www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/... #art
August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Closing today: “Robert Indiana: The American Dream” at PACE Gallery in NYC. A small but mighty show focused on the cultural and political issues that the artist explored in his paintings and sculpture. Don’t skip the terrace on this pleasant Friday www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/... #art
Cats, flying chairs, weird trees—this 1971 Milton Glaser design for the Yellow Pages makes it seem like it's a "must-read" www.printmag.com/design-inspi...
August 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Cats, flying chairs, weird trees—this 1971 Milton Glaser design for the Yellow Pages makes it seem like it's a "must-read" www.printmag.com/design-inspi...
Waiting for the Sleeper renaissance / string of Wembley shows www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYH...
August 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Waiting for the Sleeper renaissance / string of Wembley shows www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYH...