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Don Pyle

@thedonpyle.bsky.social

Musickly person in Toronto. I make books and records and photographs and pesto. https://thedonpyle.com

565 Followers  |  115 Following  |  72 Posts  |  Joined: 24.10.2024  |  2.0709

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With @tabathasouthey.bsky.social @itsakirby.bsky.social @jasonmcbride.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @damianrogers.bsky.social @ontarioarts.bsky.social #torontoartscouncil

12.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Launch!
Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories from a Life in Music (ECW Press), Don Pyle’s new book.
Slideshow/reading: DP
Q+A: Damian Rogers.
with guest readers:
Chris Colohan
Kirby
Jason McBride
Tabatha Southey
Thursday May 28 2026
Standard Time. 165 Geary Ave

ra.co/events/2368611

12.02.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Things from a box vol. XXVIVX

03.02.2026 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Going through my phone archives, found a few clips from Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. Before things got strange with covid. It was awesome time seeing these guys, especially this close. RIP Dallas Good

23.01.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Buy Alazar a New Patching Machine!, organized by Marsha Shandur Top-line info: Alazar Beyene's 50 year old patching machine has died, and we want to… Marsha Shandur needs your support for Buy Alazar a New Patching Machine!

Dirty Duff Denizens (DDD): a go fund me for the mall cobbler who's $10K patching machine needs to be replaced. This guy is down the long hall, behind the scenes. You can see some original terrazo nearby, from the days before the mall expanded & sent semi-bougie.

20.01.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW @thedonpyle.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social

DON PYLE
Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories From a Life in Music

SPRING 2026 Available for Preorder
ecwpress.com/products/rou...

14.01.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ow ow ouch!

13.01.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My new book, Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories from a Life in Music will be published on May 26, 2026 by ECW Press, who also published my first book Trouble In The Camera Club.
Rough Description launches Thursday May 28, 2026 at Standard Time, in Toronto. Launch details to follow.

06.01.2026 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! Once in a while they get it right. Well deserved.

31.12.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I always find it interesting that this is her most loved album, because it’s also the one that obscures her greatest gift - her voice.

28.12.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Forty years ago πŸ₯Έ #jesusandmarychain #shadowymenonashadowyplanet

17.12.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The new Long Branch album is out now! Listen on our bandcamp, buy deluxe vinyl there too. On all the usual streamers. longbranchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/arc-of...

15.07.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The great and mind-bogglingly prolific author Edmund White. I shot this during 1989 International Festival of Authors in Toronto, the first time I heard him read. From thereon I read all of his books in his voice, colouring them with more depth and a conspiratorial salaciousness. RIP #edmundwhite

06.06.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Black and white poster for the third anniversary party of publisher Drawn and Quarterly. The evening featured performances by Jonathan Richman, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Girl Trouble, and the clown duo Mump and Smoot

Black and white poster for the third anniversary party of publisher Drawn and Quarterly. The evening featured performances by Jonathan Richman, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Girl Trouble, and the clown duo Mump and Smoot

What a party this must have been...
Thank you @thedonpyle.bsky.social
#drawnandquarterly
#jonathanrichman
#shadowymenonashadowyplanet

28.05.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dallas’s absence feels so profound some days. Missing him every day but particularly having him in mind and heart on this rainy, blustery 52nd anniversary of his birth. #dallasgood #dallasgoodforever

22.05.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Long Branch plays The Sound Garage to launch our second album! Openers are Montreal’s Ada Lea (solo), and the debut of This Is How We Die, a new band that includes Kevan and Allan from King Cobb Steelie. Thurs July 10. Advance tix on sale Friday. Presented by @collectiveconcerts #longbranchband

14.05.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Touchdown (It All Begins With)
YouTube video by LONG BRANCH - Topic Touchdown (It All Begins With)

Long Branch, the rock band I play drumbs in, has just released first single from forthcoming album. Listen here and everywhere!! youtu.be/Gtd9paXT1LM?...

13.05.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trouble in the Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative of Toronto’s Punk History 1976 - 1980 Trouble in the Camera Club features over 300 photographs by Don Pyle and another 200 images of related ephemera from the earliest days of Toronto’s punk music

Oh, heyy was looking around and was reminded that my first book, Trouble In The Camera Club, is still for sale at ECW Press’s website. @ecwpress.bsky.social

ecwpress.com/products/tro...

09.05.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#literally

30.04.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

25.04.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doggy style

25.04.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A master of his craft. @nickcavefeeds.bsky.social

24.04.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It was nice knowing you when you when there were many things about you that were great, USA. I’m so sorry for how they’re desecrating your corpse.

22.04.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mogwai! Brainiac! Intense volume hangover! @mogwai.scot #brainiacfromdayton

15.04.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Clem Burke during and after. I shot these at the El Mocambo, in 1978, for Blondie’s Plastic Letters tour. Thank you, Clem ❀️ @officialblondiefan.bsky.social #clemburke

07.04.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The debut of Non-Op! Spectacular first outing. Congrats Stevie and Dex! #nonop

04.04.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess this means I can only buy Stanfield’s underwear now : (

28.03.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shows shows show! Basic at Sound Garage, Beak> at the Great Hall ❀️🩡 @beakbristol.bsky.social #thisisbasic

25.03.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It helps that they are the BEST!

23.03.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Feces smeared on Wayne Gretzky statue in Edmonton
YouTube video by CBC News Feces smeared on Wayne Gretzky statue in Edmonton

I love how many lingering shots of shit-smeared Gretzky there are in this news piece ❀️

#fuckgretzky

youtu.be/Ji1rxDzElhc?...

23.03.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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