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Yacht Club feat. Pink & Purple “Hot N Cold” (Video)

February 1st, 2013

The Wedge is a huge fan of Toronto sophisti-pop duo Yacht Club. In just a matter of months, we’ve aired both of their excellent videos for “Flash” and “A Little Messed Up”, and featured both members – Ben Cook and Matt Delong – as guests. Today Yacht Club released their third video for “Hot N [...]

Tags: Hot 'N Cold, Pink & Purple, The Wedge, Video, Yacht Club
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Watch an infomercial for the official Damian Abraham throbblehead

January 11th, 2013

If you haven’t heard, The Wedge’s beloved host Damian has his own bobblehead throbblehead. And what good is a product like that without its very own infomercial? So on this week’s episode of The Wedge, we brought in salesman extraordinaire Amian Dabraham (no relation) to help peddle the world’s greatest, most amazing discovery. Keep an [...]

Tags: Amian Dabraham, Ben Cook, Damian Abraham, The Wedge, throbblehead, Yacht Club
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Watch Damian try and sell his bobblehead on The Wedge tonight!

January 9th, 2013

Over the years in my band (Fucked Up) I have seen my face pop up in some weird places: bootleg stickers in Mexico, a belt advertisement in the Czech Republic… but the coolest place my ugly mug has shown up on is a bobblehead!!!!!!!! Tonight on the show we have a weird infomercial for the [...]

Tags: Blog, Damian Abraham, Yacht Club
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Yacht Club “A Little Messed Up” (Video)

December 10th, 2012

One of The Wedge’s favourite videos of 2012 is Yacht Club’s “Flash”, a low-budget throwback to ’80s Euro pop courtesy of Ben Cook (Fucked Up, Young Guv, etc.) and frequent bandmate Matt DeLong. Their new video for “A Little Messed Up,” directed by Wedge regular Colin Medley, is about a guy with “a natural appetite [...]

Tags: A Little Messed Up, The Wedge, Video, Yacht Club
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Watch Damian hit the Ossington strip on The Wedge

November 15th, 2012

When Damian was a young lad, his mom said he was not allowed to frequent the mean Toronto street of Ossington. (It’s an Avenue, actually.) Well, the times have changed and Ossington has gentrified and become one of the nicer strips in the city. Picking up a piece of pizza from his favourite, Pizza Libretto, [...]

Tags: Damian Abraham, Ossington Avenue, The Wedge, Yacht Club
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The Wedge Playlist for November 14th

November 14th, 2012

FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 14th, THE WEDGE FEATURED VIDEOS BY;THE XX, TOPS, STARS, LANA DEL RAY, DINOSAUR JR., FLYING LOTUS, MAJOR LAZER, YACHT CLUB, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, AND WEEN. THE XX CHAINED LABEL: XL RECORDINGS – SELECT DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR: YOUNG REPLICANT TOPS DIAMOND LOOK LABEL: ARBUTUS DIRECTOR: MARILIS CARDINAL STARS BACKLINES LABEL: [...]

Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers, dinosaur jr., Flying Lotus, Lana Del Ray, Major Lazer, Stars, The Wedge Playlist, the xx, TOPS, Ween, Yacht Club
Posted in Blog, Playlist, The Wedge | Posted by SimoneRK

Yacht Club “Flash” (Video) / ‘Nonnavera’ (Mixtape)

September 12th, 2012

The most prolific member of Fucked Up, Ben Cook always seems to have something new on the horizon, be it with Young Guv, The Bitters, Marvelous Darlings and now Yacht Club. Switching gears from punk to slick, Euro dance pop, Cook and partner Matt DeLong have a new single out called “Flash,” complete with a [...]

Tags: Ben Cook, Flash, mixtape, Nonnavera, The Wedge, Video, Yacht Club
Posted in Blog, Mixtape, The Wedge, Videos | Posted by Cam