Dominic Umile’s music criticism and feature stories have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, XLR8R, Orlando Weekly, Remix, Miami New Times, and more. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he’ll often lament U.S. foreign policy catastrophes with close friends. Contact him via Dominic.Umile [at] gmail.com, follow him, and read him over here, too.
Features
Wednesday, April 18 2012
A "System" of Torture?: 'DMZ's' Argument Through Comment, and Comics
Brian Wood's DMZ is a work of extremes, but its parallels to our real-life "civil liberties crackdown" are integral to the story.
Monday, March 19 2012
Civil Unrest, Panel by Panel
Writer Mark Long reconstructs childhood memories to depict Houston's monumental and harrowing events in a black & white graphic novel called The Silence of Our Friends.
Monday, November 1 2010
Ray Bradbury Wrote Me Back
My affinity for Ray Bradbury's work is rooted in his "accidental novels", as well as in the collections that plunder what is seemingly a limitless vault of manuscripts.
Thursday, August 20 2009
Nosaj Thing [Los Angeles]
Nosaj Thing's music is mysterious and provocative, bringing a rumbling intensity and highly individual style to both remixes and his own work.
Friday, March 13 2009
Calmer [Brooklyn, NY]
Calmer's patchwork aesthetic extends all the way from classical and jazz influences to scrap metal instrumentation, all in service of sound collages woven with meticulous care.
Reviews
Thursday, December 1 2011
Sepalcure: Sepalcure
After a busy year of solo projects, New York City producers Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma deal an aurally dense and lively full-length as Sepalcure.
Monday, August 22 2011
Infinitirock: Music for Primordial Recollection
Red Hook's Infinitirock makes instrumentals that would shut down a library.
Wednesday, July 13 2011
Kate Simko: Lights Out
Kate Simko's debut full-length might have you longing for the film score fanatic in her.
Tuesday, May 24 2011
Arthur Oskan: A Little More Than Everything
Early-hours techno as well as set-closers: all in a day's work for Arthur Oskan.
Thursday, May 19 2011
Dominik Eulberg: Diorama
Diorama is elaborate and compelling electronic music, whether or not you're familiar with the flowery context.
Blogs
Thursday, May 3 2012
Rear Window's Courtyard, Emphasized in a Short Film
As if performing careful, clinical cuts with a scalpel, visual artist Jeff Desom deconstructed the iconic backdrop of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window for a short film essay that has been shortlisted for the 2012 Vimeo Awards.
Thursday, February 2 2012
Heinous Hitman Wielding a Weapon Seeks Redemption and Salvation in "Near Death"
The new series from writer Jay Faerber explores the path of a hitman named Markham, who takes a bullet and experiences the afterlife -- or something like it -- when his heart stops on the operating table.
Tuesday, August 30 2011
Ernest Hemingway, Reporter
The years spent as a reporter painting the scene in Parisian cafes and on tuna fishing boats in Spain sharpened Ernest Hemingway's ability to carefully, confidently build a story.
Monday, March 21 2011
Botticelli, Sandwiches Outside and Dreams of Bradbury's 'Dandelion Wine'
Boxed in by bandage-colored cubicle walls in downtown Manhattan, my thoughts drift to sweet days in Florence and Rome, and to lines in Ray Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’.
Wednesday, February 23 2011
2562 - "Aquatic Family Affair" / Fever (new album / stream)
On this inaugural release for his When In Doubt imprint, Holland's Dave "2562" Huismans allows for a peek at the third LP on the way from him in April 2011.
