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Dominic Umile
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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.


Sepalcure: Fleur [4.Feb.11]
Clubroot: II - MMX [11.May.10]
Kaito:Trust [20.Jan.10]
Mokira: Persona [22.Apr.09]
Faunts: M4 [28.Feb.08]
Inanna: Butterfly [17.Oct.07]

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.


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