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The Independent Label Market comes to Canada

June 10th, 2013

On Saturday, June 15, Toronto will host the very first Independent Label Market, a day-long record fair featuring a host of Canadian record label selling their music directly. Having previously hosted the market in the UK and USA, the first Canadian market, which coincides with North By Northeast, will take place at the Ryerson University [...]

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RapCity & The Wedge move to Sunday night!!

June 7th, 2013

Summertime is almost here. We’re close. And so to maximize your fun this summer, both RapCity and The Wedge are moving to Sunday nights, back to back. Yup. You can now catch T-RexXx and RapCity every Sunday night at 11:00 PM EST, followed by Damian and The Wedge at 11:30 PM EST. On this week’s [...]

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Watch Damian kill yet another Wedge camera man

June 3rd, 2013

Here at The Wedge, we go through camera men on a pretty regular basis. No, they don’t retire or quit or get reassigned, I mean we “accidentally” end their lives. Okay, so “regular basis” might be an overstatement, but so far in the past year we’ve wasted two camera dudes. Eerily, they shared a striking [...]

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The Wedge gets tragic on tonight’s episode

May 29th, 2013

Why is Damian so horrified in that above photo? Well, sometimes The Wedge can be a danger zone. For instance, you may remember a while back we accidentally killed a camera man, after a long stretch being stuck in a closet. Well, this week’s show, let’s just say there is another unfortunate fatality. You see, [...]

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Tonight on The Wedge: Damian interviews The National and travels through time

May 22nd, 2013

On tonight’s episode of The Wedge, Damian somehow becomes a timelord much like Doctor Who and the KLF and travels through time for some reason. Why? Well, you’ll just have to tune in and see. And then explain to us just how he did it. No really, please do. Also on the show, Damian interviews [...]

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On The Wedge tonight Damian chats with Vampire Weekend

May 15th, 2013

This week on The Wedge, spring has sprung and it fucking sucks because well… it sucks. But what doesn’t suck in my opinion is the new Vampire Weekend record. The controversial (for a few hater types) new record feels really of the moment and more than just a collection of mp3 drops stuck on a [...]

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Damian hangs out with Action Bronson on tonight’s episode of The Wedge

May 1st, 2013

About three years ago I was hanging out in St. Louis, a friend of mine named Diaz told me about a rapper with the qualifier of “he kinda looks like you, you’ll love him!” His name was Action Bronson. That was the first time I had heard of the Queens, NY native but it certainly [...]

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Flashback: Kurt Cobain died 19 years ago

April 5th, 2013

April 5, 2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. That makes today 19 years since the frontman of Nirvana died of an alleged self-inflicted gunshot to the head. He was discovered three days later in his Seattle home by an electrician reporting for work. A suicide note signed off with the Neil [...]

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Ten things you may not know about The White Stripes’ ‘Elephant’

April 1st, 2013

Today marks the tenth anniversary of The White Stripes’ fourth album, Elephant. The most successful release by Jack and Meg White, Elephant catapulted the red, white and black-clad blues-garage-rock duo into the mainstream, selling more than five million copies worldwide. Following 2001′s White Blood Cells, which helped initiate the great rock’n’roll renaissance alongside The Strokes [...]

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Watch Damian’s original VJ demo & a Hayden interview on The Wedge tonight!

March 27th, 2013

We have a double dose of greatness on tonight’s episode of The Wedge. First, we have a previously unreleased demo audition tape from 2000, when Damian first applied to be a MuchMusic VJ. Oh, you didn’t know that? Well, such a thing exists, it’s hilarious and we’re airing it on the show. Also on the [...]

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