Don Pyle is a Toronto artist, working primarily in music, sound, photography and writing. 

The band Long Branch, in which he has played with Sally Lee, Lisa Myers, and Laura Pitkanen since 2014, released their second album, Arc of the Sun, in July 2025. He has released numerous records with other bands he has been a part of, including Phono-Comb, Greek Buck, Black Heel Marks, The Filthy Gaze of Europe, Fifth Column, King Cobb Steelie, and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. Shadowy Men released four albums, compiled in the deluxe box set, Oh, I Guess We Were a Fucking Surf Band After All, by Yep Roc Records. The band composed the theme and soundtrack for the seminal comedy series Kids In The Hall, and scored a couple of feature films. With his partner in Greek Buck, he co-scored two feature films for director John Greyson and released five records. On his own, he’s scored a number of short films for artist Wrik Mead, the feature film Portrait of a Serial Monogamist (dir. John Mitchell/Christina Zeidler), and two seasons of Baroness von Sketch Show.

As a producer or engineer, he’s worked on many albums by The Sadies, including their collaborations with Andre Williams, John Doe, their live album featuring Neko Case and Jon Spencer, among many others, and their soundtrack for Ron Mann’s film Tales of the Ratfink. Other records include TV Freaks, Soupcans, Flesh World, Cellphone, and tracks by Iggy Pop and Peaches. He created sound design for Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue’s feminist lesbian haunted house installation, Killjoy’s Kastle. 

His early photographs of the beginning of punk in Toronto, starting at age 14 in 1976, were the foundation of his first photography exhibition, Trouble In The Camera Club, at The Beaver in Toronto in 2008. The sensational exhibition resulted in the publication of the book Trouble In The Camera Club, by ECW Press (2011). A second book of 50 intimate portraits and essays, Shot In A Mirror, was published by Midnight Mass in 2022. Exhibitions and photo talks followed both, in some of the best cities in Canada and the USA, including Sackville, Toronto, London, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York. His photographs have appeared in Now, The Globe and Mail, Village Voice, Macleans among others, and on the covers of Liz Worth’s Toronto punk oral history, Treat Me Like Dirt, Geoff Pevere’s meditation on Teenage Head, Gods of the Hammer, and in the Gary Topp book He Hijacked My Brain. His photographs were the subject of a multi-page feature in Maximum Rocknroll. 

He’s written about music for Eye, Now and Exclaim! magazine, and was the sex advice columnist for a local paper for a year. 

He recently signed with ECW Press for the publication of his third book, Rough Description, to be issued May 26, 2026.