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Dominic Umile

@dominicumile.com
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Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. I hate board games. Brooklyn, NY. dominicumile.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13h
‘To look at her photographs of Horace Silver or Bud Powell at the piano is to be struck by her emphasis on musical performance as a form of work – or, as Thelonious Monk put it more emphatically in an album title, “Work!”’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on Lisette Model. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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some kind of Ys guy @meldric.cc · 4h
everytime braves fans do the racist chant, the Phillies should be awarded two runs
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 6h
Slightly delayed in posting this but if you’re in Los Angeles, go see “The Kitchen and its Discontents” at LACMA! I wrote about some of its treasures like this prototype kitchen designed by Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier for the T List 🫕 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 6h
Witness the perpetually socially awkward Sam Altman, on Jimmy Fallon in 2025, without interruption from his host, who was more than eager to let Altman pitch his product on live TV: "I cannot imagine [...] figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT"
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 6h
Thirty-five years ago, NYC-born producer Lawrence “Muggs” Muggerud crafted a provocative, sonically spirited tapestry for Cypress Hill’s self-titled debut album www.dominicumile.com/blog/cypress...
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Listening & links: Cypress Hill's debut album at 35 — Dominic Umile
Links + some notes on the sonically spirited tapestry that Muggs created for Cypress Hill's 1991 LP
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 6h
"When hippies flocked to his locale (in Northern California) in the late 1960s, Bob McKee taught many of them carpentry skills, sold them land on which to build their houses and provided timber from his own lumberyard" www.worldofinteriors.com/story/bob-mc...
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The man who designed DIY dwellings for California’s hippies
Bob McKee became a guru of back-to-the-land architecture in 1960s California. His part-Art Nouveau, part-Gingerbread redwood houses spoke to arriving hippies
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 29/09/2026
Lisette Model was targeted for Communist/leftist affiliations in the '50s and her postwar jazz photography project lost its funding (an alleged letter condemning Model's politics from her editor at Harper's Bazaar didn't help). The images have finally been published www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 29/09/2026
This made me feel ancient and deeply out of touch. Good for the people who want these, though, I guess! www.fastcompany.com/91587914/blo...
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Streaming made music disposable. This vinyl seller is finding new ways to make records collectible
With record sales soaring, Blood Records is putting a trendy spin on an old format to deliver for younger collectors.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 29/09/2026
This large exhibition of Harlem-born photographer Roy DeCarava’s work at David Zwirner in LA looks like a must-see www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...
B&W photograph by Roy DeCarava  
“Woman and children at intersection,” 1952, on view at David Zwirner gallery in Los Angeles through 10/31/26
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Ashawnta Jackson @heyjackson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of them is I Can See the Sun in Late December!!!! I love this song as done by Roberta Flack and have wanted to hear Stevie's version for a long time
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 28/09/2026
That's a good Mount Rushmore
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Dr. Acula, M. D. @draculamd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been listening to this album in full at least once a month for 35 years.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 28/09/2026
New post: Things I've been reading and some love for the sound of Cypress Hill's debut, 35 years on www.dominicumile.com/blog/cypress...
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Listening & links: Cypress Hill's debut album at 35 — Dominic Umile
Links + some notes on the sonically spirited tapestry that Muggs created for Cypress Hill's 1991 LP
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 28/09/2026
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 26/09/2026
“After slurping the remnants of an abandoned margarita, the mother raccoon staggered off and tried making a ball. But upon failing, the elder raccoon resigned herself to languishing in the warm sand” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s...
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On This Mexican Island, Raccoons Make and Play With Toys (and Also Sip Margaritas)
Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Winsor McCay, from the comic strip“Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” New York Herald, 1913.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 25/09/2026
Also in Frank Tiberi's tapes of John Coltrane: "a rare version of Coltrane’s 'Resolution,' which became the second movement of A Love Supreme, taped 10 weeks prior to the iconic studio recording" www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... @markstryker.bsky.social
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Coltrane's Shadow - Tablet Magazine
The legendary ‘Tiberi Tapes’ reveal new sides of the master, even to his biggest fans
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 25/09/2026
Rapper Your Old Droog says he was brought out to Los Angeles by Diddy for a ghostwriting gig, and Combs had a woman "feeding him grapes during the meetings. That was weird" 🤢 youtube.com/watch?v=RepgTgdnsWI&vl=es-US
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Your Old Droog Talks New Album "Bread & Butter," & Ghostwriting for Diddy
YouTube video by HOT 97
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 24/09/2026
In Harlem Underworld (Da Capo, 2027), Preston Lauterbach tells "the untold story of how a secret criminal empire set the stage for the transition of R&B to hip-hop’s mainstream takeover, and built an uptown nightlife scene where a new music was born" www.dacapopress.com/titles/prest...
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Harlem Underworld
The untold story of how a secret criminal empire set the stage for the transition of R&B to hip-hop’s mainstream takeover, and built an uptown nightlif...
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 24/09/2026
"If there’s one thing I know about David Harbour, it’s that he’s an excellent actor" www.thecut.com/article/lily...
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Lily Allen Has More to Say
For so long, the collapse of her marriage and her subsequent divorce album were all fans could talk about. Now she’s ready to go deeper.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the Coltrane Quartet on NET's Jazz Casual, 7 Dec 1963: "Afro Blue," "Alabama," "Impressions": www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCO...
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Jazz Casual - John Coltrane Quartet - 1963
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
recently ended up tearing through @bourgwick.bsky.social’s Heads If you have any interest in many topics that are near & dear to me like consciousness exploration, the explosion and assimilation of the 60s counterculture and the dynamics of later sub and counter cultures i can’t recommend it enough
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 30/05/2026
Was only able to touch on The Byrds' love for Coltrane in my post (linked up in this thread), but @andrewhickey.500songs.com produced a typically exhaustive podcast episode dedicated to "Eight Miles High" that includes a deep primer on modal jazz 500songs.com/podcast/epis...
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Episode 139: “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds
Episode one hundred and thirty-nine of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds, and the influence of jazz and Indian music on psychedelic rock. This i…
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
not a coltrane led record but wrote about a bunch of perfect ones that feature him not long ago pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... bsky.app/profile/sidd...
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Miles Davis: Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings
Read Natalie Weiner’s review of the album.
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Those late October 1960 sessions are unbelievable, a whole world created in under a week.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 23/09/2026
Re-sharing this post I wrote in May about John Coltrane and the effect that his enduring modal work had on the Grateful Dead www.dominicumile.com/blog/john-co...
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John Coltrane’s modal jazz and the Grateful Dead — Dominic Umile
On the saxophonist's enduring early 1960s sessions and their impact on the "Primal Dead" era
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 23/09/2026
Not long after DownBeat ran its infamous 1961 takedown of his recent West Coast dates w/ Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane convened his quartet at Van Gelder Studio for what became 'Ballads' www.everythingjazz.com/story/john-c...
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
William Claxton, "Coltrane at the Guggenheim," 1960
JC on the Guggenheim staircaseColtrane in profile
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 23/09/2026
I was on the SEO team at an e-commerce brand when Google's "AI Overviews" became the default in 2024. Watching my team suddenly putting charts that looked like this in front of senior execs was...unpleasant
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 23/09/2026
Eye-opening @hearingthingsco.bsky.social post on the broader implications of "pop culture’s deep fascination with codeine and promethazine, the two primary components of the syrupy narcotic drink best known as lean" and its obsession within hip hop www.hearingthings.co/a-history-of...
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A History of Hip-Hop’s Obsession With Lean
An in-depth look into the past and present of rap’s favorite drug.
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Patrick Rapa @classypatrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Are you kidding? Earth, Wind & Fire would destroy the Baseball Furies.
 Earth, Wind & Fire come out to play
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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane. To mark it we have selected a number of essays and reviews from back issues of The Wire going back over 40 years, all attempting to come to an understanding of the meaning and significance of Coltrane’s life and music.
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Jake @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A funny part in @jamie-fisher.bsky.social’s Elliott Smith book where his guitar tech tries to turn him on to metal.
“He was so proud of the fact that he knew next to nothing about heavy metal, and I was like, ‘You are missing the fucking boat.’ ’Cause he would be like, ‘Oh, the Stooges, man, they’re such a great band.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, they’re great. You know who else is great? Judas Priest.’ I was like, ‘I will pin you down to the fucking floor if I have to, but you are going to sit here and you’re going to listen to fuckin’ Screaming for Vengeance with me.’”
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 23/09/2026
Sponsored content LinkedIn-style cheerleading-type of sentence: “Agents can roam the internet, sign in to websites, fill out spreadsheets and make phone calls on behalf of people — and that’s just the start” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 22/09/2026
Dug this @natepatrin.bsky.social piece on the Erykah Badu–Alchemist record, which has been in streaming rotation o'er here theshfl.com/album/Before...
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Before the World Blows (The Alchemist, Erykah Badu)
Read Nate Patrin on Before the World Blows by The Alchemist, Erykah Badu
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 22/09/2026
Drummer Sammy Siegler has been in all of your fave NY hardcore bands—when he was 12 (!), he played in Gorilla Biscuits and Side by Side—and he gets granular here about recording with Judge, fighting nazis during YOT's "We're Not in This Alone" tour, and lots more 💪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGd...
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SAMMY SIEGLER: JUDGE, Youth of Today, Side By Side & ...Limp Bizkit? (HardLore)
YouTube video by HARDLORE
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Brian Baughan @brianbaughan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Weird, I was just listening to this album!
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 22/09/2026
Extensive unpacking of the 'Easy Rider' soundtrack by @paranoiacs.bsky.social — and if youve been put off by the hit singles, Steppenwolf's debut LP is sort of a secret shredder actually. Grab the Mars Bonfire stuff too man pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Various Artists: Easy Rider (Music From the Soundtrack)
Read Elizabeth Nelson’s review of the album.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 21/09/2026
Monday
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The incredible print sale I'm throwing goes for ONE MORE WEEK. All 8x10 prints are 15$, 11x14 are 30, 13x19 are 40!! Get yours while the savings last! michaelkupperman.com/shop
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
one of my best friends has a shirt that just says "ASK FOR JANICE" in massive letters
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you love music from the ‘60s, then you’ve likely enjoyed an album record producer Tom Wilson worked on. He played a vital role in an array of landmark records from Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, The Velvet Underground, & more Learn more about him in Everything is Everything ow.ly/19tI50ZOY7u
Book cover of Everything Is Everything: Tom Wilson and Pop Music in 1966 by Steven E. JonesIn the tradition of The Old, Weird America and Deliver Me from Nowhere, cultural critic Steven E. Jones explores American pop culture through the work of record producer Tom Wilson, and the artists with whom he collaborated in the miraculous year 1966.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 18/09/2026
All the fire emojis
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 18/09/2026
"Some actors are chameleons with tremendous range, who can disappear into any part. Others have a genius for a type. Winona Ryder is one of the latter" metrograph.com/cracked-acto...
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Winona Ryder - Journal - Metrograph
A Hollywood “It“ girl comes of age.
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Mosi Reeves @humthrush.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This effort to sentimentalize Coltrane's work dates back decades, well before the "spiritual jazz" fad. I remember many biographies and documentaries as well as enthusiasts like Carlos Santana that dismissed his late period as too cacophonous.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 18/09/2026
“(A)s the term spiritual jazz has crystallized into a buzzword, listeners have been increasingly guided toward easy shortcuts and away from such demanding ascents” — @darkforcesswing.bsky.social on Coltrane’s obscured role as the founder of this “unofficial movement” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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‘Spiritual Jazz’ Has Turned Cozy. John Coltrane Demanded More.
The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 18/09/2026
Postwar artist S. Neil Fujita, who designed ~50 album covers for Columbia Records in the late 1950s as “the label’s first in-house art director,” is one of six Japanese-American artists featured in a new Barnes Foundation show — see @natechinen.bsky.social www.wrti.org/arts-desk/20...
A selection of Columbia album covers designed by S. Neil Fujita, in 'Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America' at The Barnes Foundation.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 17/09/2026
When magazines sent photographers to shoot pictures of teen pro skateboarder Jerry Hsu, "he eventually became interested in their craft" and bought a camera www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
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How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
In his photographs, the skateboarder Jerry Hsu captures Los Angeles’s manic extremes, with images of overturned cars, collisions, and a bank building ablaze.
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