Information about DPs Rough Description book announcement, and tour help needed! Click through to read. Photo by Kevin Lynn, 1991.

Long Branch and Onion Honey play The House of Miracles, in Cambridge, ON. Thursday October 2, 2025. 116 Lowther St. South, back door, left side. Doors 7:30. Advance tickets here.

Long Branch music group return to Montreal for one night, July 12, 2025 at Rocket Science Room. Joining us are special guests SongPoems, and SLURP.

Long Branch music group are pleased to announce our new album, Arc of The Sun, out Friday July 11, 2025. The album was engineered by, and co-produced by Jon Drew and Long Branch, and recorded at Taurus Studios. We are releasing it on our Eventual label, on deluxe gold melt vinyl, as well as the usual streamers. The front cover features exquisite art by Rachel Duckhouse, with back cover photo and jacket design by Don Pyle. The premium inner sleeve has another drawing by Rachel Duckhouse, and full lyrics, with design by Lisa Myers. Arc of The Sun includes special guest Anne Bourne on cello. Arc of the Sun is distributed in Canada by F.A.B. The first two “singles” are out now! You can listen to our latest one, How It Is, on some streamers or on our bandcamp - where you can also pre-order vinyl LP or digital files. Contact Long Branch for live bookings and anything else. Long Branch are grateful for the support of the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

I have signed a contract with ECW Press for a new book, scheduled for release in the warm months of 2026. ECW released my first book, Trouble In The Camera Club, and I look forward to making magic happen with them again.

it’s a sort of memoir, featuring recollections of experiences with friends and musicians (Dallas Good, Louie Beeson, Steve Albini, Ramones…), my mother, a life-changing car accident, a stint attending hair school, and reflections on the early Women’s Music movement, mixed with essays about first steps into music as a teenager, being in rock bands and the bonkers situations attendant to that. And more! 

Follow the Arc of the Sun is an experimental sound and music performance by the collective Long Branch. In Follow the Arc of the Sun, the ensemble offer a live performance from sunset to sundown in the Agnes Etherington House at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. The performance engages in close listening as a process to explore the immersive dimensions of sound, responding to the increasing and diminishing light on this halfway point between the longest and shortest days. In this durational performance, Long Branch listen and respond to the tone of the house to explore interactions among movement, light, and the questions that remain at the end of the day: How am I still here? Am I still here?

Follow the Arc of the Sun coincides with the closing of the Agnes house and marks a transitional moment for the gallery and for Long Branch, as they each embark on new beginnings.

A very limited edition LP will collect highlights and be released upon Agnes House reopening in 2026. Photo by Garrett Elliott.

There are few people who have had as much cultural impact on Toronto as Gary Topp, who, along with his partner Gary Topp, we responsible for booking the most adventurous films, readers and bands, particularly at the venues they ran, the Roxy Theatre, the New Yorker Theatre, the Horseshoe Tavern, and The Edge.

Gary is now the subject of a major appreciation book, entitled He Hijacked My Brain: Gary Topp’s Toronto. This lavish production is 12” x 9” and is over 300 pages. It’s a beautiful book, published by UXB Press, and a significant document of some of the most radical changes to the arts in Toronto.

I’m very pleased to have some of my photographs included in this publication. It’s very limited so buy it while you still can.

Shown: Viletones at the New Yorker, 1977

The great and mind-bogglingly prolific author Edmund White in his hotel room. I shot this when he read at the 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 to one of the last of the “new” generation of gay writers, a unique voice who reported from the frontlines of the Stonewall riot, and through a massive body of work, documented his own life in the rise of 70s gay liberation, the AIDS crisis, and being a sexy slutty senior. That he had time to teach literature and writing while also researching and writing massive volumes on Genet, Proust, and others is quite astonishing. What a life. White departed this earth on June 3, 2025.

Long Branch launch their 2nd album, Arc of the Sun, at Sound Garage in Toronto, on July 10, 2025. With guests Ada Lea, playing a special solo set, and the debut performance of This Is How We Die, the new band that includes Kevan and Allan of King Cobb Steelie. Presented by and tickets at collectiveconcerts.com