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.
dominicumile.com
#NowPlaying Eighty lovely minutes' worth of live Grateful Dead, 'Family Dog at the Great Highway, 4/18/70' (but not billed as such). David Lemieux's liners: "Appearing under a cryptic moniker gave them the freedom to do as they pleased, and acoustic music pleased them mightily" (LP issued 2013)
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
#NowPlaying Eighty lovely minutes' worth of live Grateful Dead, 'Family Dog at the Great Highway, 4/18/70' (but not billed as such). David Lemieux's liners: "Appearing under a cryptic moniker gave them the freedom to do as they pleased, and acoustic music pleased them mightily" (LP issued 2013)
"Through oral histories and a wealth of ephemeral printed artifacts, WAIL chronicles Prestige Records’ graphic, typographic and photographic legacy and the illustrators, layout folks and graphic designers who made all the components come together" www.printmag.com/daily-heller... #jazz #books
January 6, 2026 at 11:48 PM
"Through oral histories and a wealth of ephemeral printed artifacts, WAIL chronicles Prestige Records’ graphic, typographic and photographic legacy and the illustrators, layout folks and graphic designers who made all the components come together" www.printmag.com/daily-heller... #jazz #books
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
"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...
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
"Take a break with a LinkedIn puzzle game"
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Take a break with a LinkedIn puzzle game"
Now on view at MoMA, Helen Frankenthaler's "Jacob's Ladder" is exemplary of the lush, seductive abstract work for which she is best known but "hints at her interests beyond Modernism" news.artnet.com/art-world/he...
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Now on view at MoMA, Helen Frankenthaler's "Jacob's Ladder" is exemplary of the lush, seductive abstract work for which she is best known but "hints at her interests beyond Modernism" news.artnet.com/art-world/he...
Go peep that “50 Years of PUNK” show in NYC. Gorgeous original photography by Roberta Bayley, David Godlis, and more. Killer comics work from PUNK Magazine cofounder John Holmstrom, R. Crumb, and others. Eye-poppin’ contact sheet from a legendary Ramones shoot www.kismithgallery.com?page=2 #art
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Go peep that “50 Years of PUNK” show in NYC. Gorgeous original photography by Roberta Bayley, David Godlis, and more. Killer comics work from PUNK Magazine cofounder John Holmstrom, R. Crumb, and others. Eye-poppin’ contact sheet from a legendary Ramones shoot www.kismithgallery.com?page=2 #art
Your Monday (Joan) Mitchell—glad we caught "To define a feeling..." at David Zwirner in NYC, featuring works that "experimented radically with the physical properties of oil paint" galeriemagazine.com/joan-mitchel... #art
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Your Monday (Joan) Mitchell—glad we caught "To define a feeling..." at David Zwirner in NYC, featuring works that "experimented radically with the physical properties of oil paint" galeriemagazine.com/joan-mitchel... #art
Everything is awful
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Everything is awful
The Beatles documentary Paul doesn’t want you to see 😂 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Beatles documentary Paul doesn’t want you to see 😂 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...
We caught a thunderous Murder City Devils set at Austin’s Mohawk on Sunday night—crappy pic but peep bassist Derek Fudesco paying tribute to some likeminded Austin natives in that sweet 13th Floor Elevators tee. They killed
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We caught a thunderous Murder City Devils set at Austin’s Mohawk on Sunday night—crappy pic but peep bassist Derek Fudesco paying tribute to some likeminded Austin natives in that sweet 13th Floor Elevators tee. They killed
Lynne Drexler drew on the energy of the opera to create marvelous large-scale canvases and abstract works on paper in the 1970s—glad to catch the @berrycampbell.bsky.social show before it closed berrycampbell.com/exhibitions/...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Lynne Drexler drew on the energy of the opera to create marvelous large-scale canvases and abstract works on paper in the 1970s—glad to catch the @berrycampbell.bsky.social show before it closed berrycampbell.com/exhibitions/...
Awww yeah. Nothing says "fire up that cover letter" than a job posted five hours ago with over a 100 applicants. Get crackin'
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Awww yeah. Nothing says "fire up that cover letter" than a job posted five hours ago with over a 100 applicants. Get crackin'
A great resource (thanks @bourgwick.bsky.social)—Greenpoint locals may have noticed that construction workers unearthed vintage stained-glass signage in late Oct. on Manhattan Ave. (1940s tax photo here) forgotten-ny.com/2025/10/wien... greenpointers.com/2025/11/12/v... #brooklyn
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A great resource (thanks @bourgwick.bsky.social)—Greenpoint locals may have noticed that construction workers unearthed vintage stained-glass signage in late Oct. on Manhattan Ave. (1940s tax photo here) forgotten-ny.com/2025/10/wien... greenpointers.com/2025/11/12/v... #brooklyn
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...