Exciting new addition to already stacked lineup for TO book launch - Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan of the luminous Yo La Tengo music group will be spinning records all nights. Advance tickets here: ra.co/events/2368611

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Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Co-Founder Don Pyle Delivers a Wildly Candid Music Memoir - That Eric Alper Don Pyle has lived one of the most genuinely singular creative lives in Canadian music, and ‘Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories From a Life in Music’, out May 26th from ECW Press, tells...

First review of my forthcoming book! Thanks, Eric Alper 👑#roughdescription #ericalper

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That one’s a double whammy. It makes me neither human or dancer, but rather stabby.

Congratulations to the Nash the Slash Rises Again! crew for a very excellent telling of Nash’s story. Great archival footage, and score by Rob Preuss. Plus waiting for the bus outside Vesta Lunch. #nashtheslash

Rough Description by Don Pyle — DON PYLE Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories from a Life in Music is Don Pyle’s tantalizing memoir of a creative life lived fully.

I finally received the cover art file for my new book Rough Description and I love it! Front cover 📷 Heather Cameron. Designed by Dave Gee, published by ECW Press. Preorder below. Supported by #torontoartscouncil and #ontarioartscouncil

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Bringing the queer stuff.

A WEEK TODAY I'll be sharing a table alongside @thedonpyle.bsky.social at that nomadic paradise for booksellers and buyers.

DOUBLE LIFE
SATURDAY 07 MARCH
NOON - 6PM
STANDARD TIME 165 GEARY AVE 2ND FL.

FREE ADMISSION & FRIVOLITIES

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

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

Things from a box vol. XXVIVX

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

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.

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

SPRING 2026 Available for Preorder
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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.

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

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.

Forty years ago 🥸 #jesusandmarychain #shadowymenonashadowyplanet

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...

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

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...
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#jonathanrichman
#shadowymenonashadowyplanet

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

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

Touchdown (It All Begins With) YouTube video by LONG BRANCH - Topic

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

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

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#literally

Thanks!

Doggy style

A master of his craft. @nickcavefeeds.bsky.social