Dominic Umile
@dominicumile.com
Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. I hate board games. Brooklyn, NY.
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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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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...
Writer Vinnie Sperrazza recently “listened to all of Elvin Jones’s 1955-’57 studio dates, plus a few select radio broadcasts." Highlights here vinniesperrazza.substack.com/p/listen-to-...
Listen to Elvin Jones
July 1955 to November 1957.
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October 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Writer Vinnie Sperrazza recently “listened to all of Elvin Jones’s 1955-’57 studio dates, plus a few select radio broadcasts." Highlights here vinniesperrazza.substack.com/p/listen-to-...
The annual posters for Herman Miller's company picnic in Zeeland, Michigan, were inaugurated in 1970, when the iconic American furniture manufacturer "recruited graphic designer Steve Frykholm straight out of the nearby Cranbrook Academy of Art" www.eamesinstitute.org/stories/summ...
October 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The annual posters for Herman Miller's company picnic in Zeeland, Michigan, were inaugurated in 1970, when the iconic American furniture manufacturer "recruited graphic designer Steve Frykholm straight out of the nearby Cranbrook Academy of Art" www.eamesinstitute.org/stories/summ...
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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...
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
www.dominicumile.com
September 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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...
"A relationship implies that there’s somebody home who’s talking to you, but with a chatbot, there’s nobody at home" | @nitishpahwa.com and MIT's Sherry Turkle on technology that "scrambles our ability to live in the real world" slate.com/technology/2...
There’s One Word That Your Chatbot Should Never Say
Artificial intimacy is harming us in ways we don’t fully understand. An MIT professor thinks she knows how to combat it.
slate.com
October 2, 2026 at 7:09 PM
"A relationship implies that there’s somebody home who’s talking to you, but with a chatbot, there’s nobody at home" | @nitishpahwa.com and MIT's Sherry Turkle on technology that "scrambles our ability to live in the real world" slate.com/technology/2...
The nonprofit collective Bass Players of the World celebrates its first major victory today—after decades of petitions and sprawling public campaigns, Paul’s bass track for “Nowhere Man” is finally the loudest instrument in the mix
October 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The nonprofit collective Bass Players of the World celebrates its first major victory today—after decades of petitions and sprawling public campaigns, Paul’s bass track for “Nowhere Man” is finally the loudest instrument in the mix
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this week my Spin column Deep Cut Friday is about a 1972 Michael Jackson song written by Willie Hutch, "Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me":
www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/deep...
www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/deep...
Deep Cut Friday: “Girl Don’t Take Your Love from Me” by Michael Jackson - SPIN
Uncover the brilliance of Michael Jackson's 'Girl Don’t Take Your Love from Me' in this week's Deep Cut Friday feature.
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October 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
this week my Spin column Deep Cut Friday is about a 1972 Michael Jackson song written by Willie Hutch, "Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me":
www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/deep...
www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/deep...
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Maggot Brain: Returning To The Original Masters
YouTube video by ORGMusicVideos
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October 1, 2026 at 8:54 PM
A show at NYU's Grey Art Museum is the "first exhibition to explore Helen Frankenthaler's career-long engagement with music and dance as seen through her printmaking practice" greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/news/press-r...
October 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
A show at NYU's Grey Art Museum is the "first exhibition to explore Helen Frankenthaler's career-long engagement with music and dance as seen through her printmaking practice" greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/news/press-r...
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I Went to the One-Night-Only "Industrial Musical" Staged on Broadway by a Thiel-Backed Fintech Company and All I Got Was a Lot of Free Merch and Snacks As Well As Some Thoughts on How the Future of Corporate Virtue-Signaling May Look a Lot Like Its Past: slate.com/technology/2...
A Peter Thiel–Backed Company Put On a Broadway Musical. I Went—and Was Stunned by What I Saw.
The vibes felt pure Obama-era.
slate.com
October 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I Went to the One-Night-Only "Industrial Musical" Staged on Broadway by a Thiel-Backed Fintech Company and All I Got Was a Lot of Free Merch and Snacks As Well As Some Thoughts on How the Future of Corporate Virtue-Signaling May Look a Lot Like Its Past: slate.com/technology/2...
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Ewok-approved lifestyle
"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...
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
www.worldofinteriors.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Ewok-approved lifestyle
At his newsletter, @jaywbabcock.bsky.social links to a 2013-era piece by Stewart Voegtlin on “John Coltrane’s startling 1960s ascension from space bebop to universe symphonies” that ran in the final issue of Arthur (PDF link at post, illustration by Beaver) jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-s...
October 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
At his newsletter, @jaywbabcock.bsky.social links to a 2013-era piece by Stewart Voegtlin on “John Coltrane’s startling 1960s ascension from space bebop to universe symphonies” that ran in the final issue of Arthur (PDF link at post, illustration by Beaver) jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-s...
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‘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...
@adamshatz.bsky.social on Lisette Model.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 30, 2026 at 10:11 AM
‘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...
@adamshatz.bsky.social on Lisette Model.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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everytime braves fans do the racist chant, the Phillies should be awarded two runs
September 30, 2026 at 6:39 PM
everytime braves fans do the racist chant, the Phillies should be awarded two runs
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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...
September 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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...
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"
I know it's been said a million times before, but it's worth a reminder: this kind of thing is marketing.
This guy sells AI courses. "You hate me for being right about how much you all will love this" gets attention from haters and is a lightning rod for potential customers. It's a gimmick
This guy sells AI courses. "You hate me for being right about how much you all will love this" gets attention from haters and is a lightning rod for potential customers. It's a gimmick
September 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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"
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...
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
www.dominicumile.com
September 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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...
"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...
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
www.worldofinteriors.com
September 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"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...
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...
Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 29, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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...
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...
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.
www.fastcompany.com
September 29, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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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Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
September 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
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/...
September 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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/...
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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
September 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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
That's a good Mount Rushmore
Black Sunday is definitely where Muggs hit his stride and found his sound. I put him up there with the bomb squad, preem and Beatminerz on my Mount Rushmore
September 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
That's a good Mount Rushmore
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I’ve been listening to this album in full at least once a month for 35 years.
September 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I’ve been listening to this album in full at least once a month for 35 years.
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...
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
www.dominicumile.com
September 28, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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...