Dominic Umile

Interior, Gilles Peterson's radio lab, audiophile room and basement club in North London (turntables, built-in shelves and records, Isonoe mixer)

Would totally hang in Gilles Peterson's North London listening space/studio timecapsulesound.substack.com/p/the-green-... (📸: Will Tsukuda)

Pitchfork and Rough Trade’s Oklou Zine Launch Postponed The event will now take place Thursday, October 16 at New York’s Rough Trade Below

Ah yes, a ticketed sold-out "zine launch" for "zines" that cost thirty dollars. Punk af pitchfork.com/news/pitchfo...

Art for Call to the Universe radio show at Ithaca, NYC's WRFI (jazz, psych, funk, etc.)

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

The Nation on 1960s jazz and a grimy club called Slugs' — Dominic Umile The magazine explores the legacy of Slugs’ and its thrilling live jazz performances

And hopefully you didn't miss Iverson's piece in The Nation in February www.dominicumile.com/blog/nation-...

I wrote about how it came to be that Millie of "My Boy Lollipop" fame recorded a then-unreleased song by Nick Drake in 1970: www.hilobrow.com/2025/10/05/s...

Haven’t been following as closely all year but dude is deadly

Gen Z's College Radio Revival Reports say Gen Z isn't discovering new artists. But college radio stations are overflowing with new DJs. As young listeners reject algorithms for analog—the industry should pay attention.

“Against all odds—COVID shutdowns, FCC regulations, and the long decline of FM radio—college radio is thriving again” emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

Definitely a singular type of person

Illustrations by Emil Ferris, via Fantagraphics, for her "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters" graphic novel series

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...

Emil Ferris Pays Homage to Horror Comics With ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ In her two-volume classic, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” Emil Ferris explores a girl’s journey to understand the world, and herself.

Brilliantly executed NYT interactive package that explores the work of incredibly talented comics artist Emil Ferris www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #comics

YouTube video by MillieJacksonChannel ★ Millie Jackson ★ Strange Things ★ [1972] ★ "Millie Jackson" ★

Playing Millie’s debut right now incidentally (!) youtu.be/RzKHhSknO-c?...

Infiltrating the Hippie Mafia Nicholas Schou tracks down the last surviving members of the drug cartel that supplied John Lennon and Steve Jobs.

Down a Brotherhood of Eternal Love wormhole—consulting @bourgwick.bsky.social's painstakingly researched 'Heads' and might have to get Nicholas Schou's book on the "group of acid evangelists who ran one of the largest drug cartels of the 1960s and 1970s" airmail.news/books/2025/9...

Only Tapes in the Poker Room: Ty Segall’s Collector Code Ty Segall reflects on a life shaped by vinyl: from finding his first Alice Cooper LP at age 11 to hunting rare bootlegs and psych gems across the globe.

Enjoyed Ty Segall dorking out on his digging habits here—don't know the 100% Unknown Fibers boot but seems like it cost him significant coin per the sold eBay listing/Discogs listings. And yes, grab all (or most of?) the Fever Tree you can www.discogs.com/digs/feature...

The Latin Vibes of Bobby Hutcherson's Montara - Everything Jazz Jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson released a brilliant Latin Jazz fusion album in 1975, "Montara". Read about it and buy at Everything Jazz

I should grab the Tone Poet reissue of Bobby Hutcherson’s “Montara” www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-la...

Farewell to undersung house and disco maestro Lee Collins - Chicago Reader Lee Collins was a DJ’s DJ, with an ear for obscure tracks that could drive parties into a frenzy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Few Chicago DJs have garnered the kind of mythical status of Lee Collins, who issued few recordings of his own but whose skills behind the turntables earned him international praise. I talked to eight different people about his life and legacy for the Reader.

Miles Davis

"Generique"

Album "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud"
(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Photo: Miles Davis & Jeanne Moreau
youtu.be/ieQWjSXdv-Y
#Jazz #MusicSky #JazzSky #Soundtrack 🎧 #Music

I couldn’t agree more. Every time someone is talking about Kind of Blue, I’m like “you’ve gotta hear this soundtrack”

Guido Crepax and the new adult comics revolution — Dominic Umile The graphically elaborate 1960s comics by Italian artist Guido Crepax meld hazy dream sequences and historical fact

Back in 2019, when I bought the first Guido Crepax book in the exquisite @fantagraphics.bsky.social series, I was showing off its 400 ten-by-thirteen-inch black and white pages to everyone who would look www.dominicumile.com/blog/comics-...

Guido Crepax. Dreams, Games, Valentina. 1953–2003 - Fondazione Brescia Musei

Featuring over 150 works, a new Guido Crepax exhibition in Brescia, Italy "traces the fifty-year career of an eclectic artist who revolutionised the language of illustration, elevating comics to an internationally recognised art form" www.bresciamusei.com/en/event/gui... #comics #art

genuinely excited that the new spotify CEO will be a serious music head with an ethical commitment to paying musicians & who absolutely loves reading liner notes & production credits & whose favorite beefheart album is... oh, wait... <checking earpiece>

Psyched the Bill MacKay / Ryley Walker Land of Plenty reissue is out today. Big thanks to Drag City for making this happen. See link to purchase. Get a copy now. Long live music..!

www.dragcity.com/products/lan...

Give the kids what they want, which is definitely a CTI Records showcase during the Super Bowl

Visited Chicago a couple of weeks ago. One of the most beautiful places we've ever been. People like Rand Paul are really bad for our country

ROVR - Solid Foundation Strictly roots, dancehall, and all things Jamaican, a deep sound system session

A lovers rock and dancehall kinda Sunday morning—Maddie Ruthless on ROVR www.rovr.live/s/wwe2axrspr... #nowplaying #np

Agents of Chaos The life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who—between police raids...

ICYMI, I spent the better part of a decade researching and writing a book about a First Amendment crusader who took on a criminal administration.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-...

The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower | MoMA Exhibition. Through Jul 12, 2026. “This building is not an apartment house.” With this declaration, Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa introduced the Nakagin Capsule Tower as a radically new vision for...

If you're swinging through MoMA to catch the Hilma af Klint before it closes, do NOT miss this small but mesmerizing exhibition on the work of Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa www.moma.org/calendar/exh... #design #architecture

Daybreak, by Sven Wunder 13 track album

Out today—more orchestral jazz-funk/lush library loveliness from Sven Wunder svenwunder.bandcamp.com/album/daybreak #nowplaying

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’ The terrorism case against the Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. The 27-year-old, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was accused of displaying a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, last November. Continue reading...

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

The Secrets of ‘A Love Supreme’ How Coltrane composed his masterpiece

When John Coltrane recorded A Love Supreme, "it was on each member of the band to deliver immediate versions of their ongoing private compositions on a moment’s notice in Van Gelder’s studio"—love this new @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social piece www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... #jazz

A clean Web of Sounds
Is tough to find let alone
Late Seeds singles, dude