Don Pyle
@thedonpyle.bsky.social
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Musickly person in Toronto. I make books and records and photographs and pesto.
The new Long Branch album is out now! Listen on our bandcamp, buy deluxe vinyl there too. On all the usual streamers.
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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
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4 months ago
What a party this must have been... Thank you
@thedonpyle.bsky.social
#drawnandquarterly
#jonathanrichman
#shadowymenonashadowyplanet
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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
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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
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Long Branch, the rock band I play drumbs in, has just released first single from forthcoming album. Listen here and everywhere!!
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Touchdown (It All Begins With)
YouTube video by LONG BRANCH - Topic
https://youtu.be/Gtd9paXT1LM?si=VjBct3Z0RYusSLJQ
5 months ago
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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
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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
https://ecwpress.com/products/trouble-in-the-camera-club
5 months ago
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#literally
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Doggy style
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A master of his craft.
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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.
6 months ago
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Mogwai! Brainiac! Intense volume hangover!
@mogwai.scot
#brainiacfromdayton
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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
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The debut of Non-Op! Spectacular first outing. Congrats Stevie and Dex!
#nonop
6 months ago
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I guess this means I can only buy Stanfield’s underwear now : (
6 months ago
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Shows shows show! Basic at Sound Garage, Beak> at the Great Hall ❤️🩵
@beakbristol.bsky.social
#thisisbasic
6 months ago
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I love how many lingering shots of shit-smeared Gretzky there are in this news piece ❤️
#fuckgretzky
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Feces smeared on Wayne Gretzky statue in Edmonton
YouTube video by CBC News
https://youtu.be/Ji1rxDzElhc?si=bgC_czgqTLG5bGe-
7 months ago
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With apologies to KrazyKat.
7 months ago
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❤️❤️
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The Feminine Complex -[3]- Are You Lonesome Like Me
YouTube video by ThePsychedelicGroove
https://youtu.be/lg_ZpZ4cTZY?si=sdVtWflhaAFpPL_3
7 months ago
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Progress report!
#rush
7 months ago
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From a session I did with The Sadies in the summer of 2016. So many of these have never been seen. I feel so fortunate to have so many pics of Dallas with the band. @thesadiesofficial
#thesadies
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8 months ago
Trump's evil reign of white supremacy.
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From the first moment I saw the New York Dolls perform Trash on the Midnight Special, 1973, I was forever changed. I shot these at the El Mo for Johansen’s 1978 debut. May the cosmos absorb and continue to reflect your greatness, David Johansen. With eternal gratitude.
#newyorkdolls
#davidjohansen
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Stevie Manning presents the opening incarnation for the launch of GB Jones’s Witches book.
@gbjones.bsky.social
#midnightmassbooks
@coopercole.bsky.social
#steviemanning
7 months ago
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Rush art progress report
#rush
#flybynight
7 months ago
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The Virgin Marty wishes you a belated Happy Valentine’s Day when you vote today.
#ontario
#dumpford
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Martha Rich Art Projects
7 months ago
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
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The Planets at RTH
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Krassensteins
7 months ago
BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes. The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
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I so want to take this amazing Rush art but I also want to see how it looks after it rains.
#flybynight
#rush
#pedroinfante
7 months ago
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Which one is the gateway drug? Here’s Ontario now that corner stores sell booze.
8 months ago
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Are there any good Made in Canada by a Canadian company veggie sausage/dogs? Yves are so dismal.
#veggiesausage
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Jesus Christ, you mean to tell me that the Super Bowl hasn’t even happened yet?
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I recently bought an incredible original Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet 1990 tour poster from
@thedonpyle.bsky.social
and my finger is itching seeing all of these incredible Kids in the Hall stage blueprints he's currently selling.
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Don Pyle
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Recent Neko Case press had me thinking about the masterpiece she wrote with The Sadies. And then I thought how cool it must be to have Marianne Faithfull cover your song! Today, I’m sad to see that Marianne is gone.
#nekocase
#thesadies
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Marianne Faithfull - Hold On Hold On (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull
https://youtu.be/O5MbW5guq8U?si=FTMTlJmrN-yeNOaw
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Today in
@slate.bsky.social
, I wrote about Neko Case's extraordinary new memoir, and among much else, how it reveals the animal figures in her songs as avatars of flight from and vengeance for the dehumanizing injuries of class in America. (With an accompanying playlist!)
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She’s One of Our Greatest Singer-Songwriters. She Had to Survive the Unimaginable.
Neko Case wrote a haunting memoir. I’ll never hear some songs the same.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/01/neko-case-book-memoir-songs-lyrics-new-pornographers.html
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Surprise! The guy who had Cher, Grace Jones, Little Richard, Joan Rivers, Dinah Shore, kd lang and shirtless oiled construction workers building a room made of fruitcake on his Xmas special came out as gay!
#peeweeherman
#paulreubens
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I am thrilled to share that I have just signed a contract with ECW Press for a new book. @ecwpress published my first, Trouble In The Camera Club, and I look forward to tumbling with them again for my third book. Thanks to @torontoartscouncil and @ontarioartscouncil for support!
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KIRBY
9 months ago
"In by 60. Out by 70."
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Book & Vinyl Sale (By Appointment Only)
Kirby's weeding through their personal collection to sell by appointment.
http://www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p198/booksaleatKirbys.html
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I’ll be joining this great group of mostly book sellers, selling punk flyers, magazines, paper things. I just posted some of the large items too big to display.
#permanentsleepbooks
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10 months ago
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I’ll be joining a brilliant bunch of booksellers in Toronto, Dec 8. Selling many paper things - flyers, magazines, posters, my own books and postcards. Will post more here as I photograph them.
#midnightmassbooks
#chezmoibooks
#bellwoodsbooks
#heretichousebooks
#barbedwyre
#thisainttherosedalelibrar
10 months ago
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Gonna need this.
11 months ago
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Yesterday was 49th anniversary of Horses and 50th for Propaganda! Astonishingly rich time for record releases. Horses had a a massive impact on my 13 yr old brain and continues to be, if not the greatest album ever, then certainly the one with the most perfect arc. I have so much love for PS and S.
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It took me years to ease into Twitter, not liking its interface and seeing nothing but posts I didn’t want to see. Not being slammed with cat posts yet but I look forward to that. The transition here made easier by seeing familiars like
@traceythorn.bsky.social
and
@gtconway.bsky.social
. Send more!
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