With your head down, caught-up in the every day grind it’s easy to forget to take a breath, look around and see how far you’ve come. When you’re knee deep in it, shoveling it, clawing at it, fiddling with it’s most minute details, and it feels like it’s taking forever to get anywhere it can… Continue reading Marathon of Dope Winter 2012 Sampler
Author: robcrooks
Reviewed in Uptown Magazine
Earlier this month, we learned of another heavy blow coming down on Winnipeg’s music scene. On top of venues closing down at an alarming rate (Negative Space now?), the free arts and entertainment weekly Uptown Magazine published it’s final issue last Thursday. It will apparently re-surface as an insert in the Winnipeg Free Press, replacing… Continue reading Reviewed in Uptown Magazine
Thank You to Everyone Who Came Out to Support the MOD Western Canadian Tour!
We returned to Winnipeg this past Sunday, feeling drained and a little more insane than when we left, but extremely fulfilled. I personally had one of the most successful tours yet. There were so many great times with old homies and new friends. Driving from Winnipeg to Vancouver and back in a car full of… Continue reading Thank You to Everyone Who Came Out to Support the MOD Western Canadian Tour!
Marathon of Dope Western Canadian Tour
Aw yea, aw yea! The headline is true! Later this month Pip Skid, Dj C0-op and I will be bringing our shit-show circus on the road from Winnipeg to Vancouver and back, setting off tornadoes of chaos and terror at every stop along the way. And just to up the ante on this already… Continue reading Marathon of Dope Western Canadian Tour
The Lo is Dead! Long Live the Lo!
On Saturday, I went to the last ever show at the Lo-Pub. The line-up was great, but that’s really not the reason I was there. I wanted to have one last drink with a terminal friend. I wanted to stay until the end, and see the lights go out; but unfortunately, in… Continue reading The Lo is Dead! Long Live the Lo!
FREE SHOW: Two Rocks of Stone and Rob Crooks
I feel as though Two Rocks of Stone are my true cohorts, as far as Winnipeg’s music scene goes. I consider myself and them to be if not the only, a few of very select musicians in the city to be making no holds barred, experimental hip-hop. Of course, it wasn’t always this way.… Continue reading FREE SHOW: Two Rocks of Stone and Rob Crooks
Trout! Trout! Trout!
After a one year hiatus, the Rainbow Trout Music Festival is back in full effect for 2012, and I will be performing! I was scheduled to perform at it last year with Magnum KI, before some unforeseen circumstances shut it down; but everything is going and will continue to go smoothly for this year.… Continue reading Trout! Trout! Trout!
The Assiniboine River Music Armada
I like French stuff: philosophy, literature, film, music. France is pretty alright in my books. Not to mention they gave us the Golden Boy. I’m proud to live in a place with such a strong French presence and history, even if we do all pronounce Portage as “Poor-tidge.” St. Boniface is really a nice… Continue reading The Assiniboine River Music Armada
A Fond Farewell…The Dope Joints Last Episode
Last week I posted about the future; sadly, this week I am forced to post about the past. Tonight, Wednesday, July 25th 2012 will be the final episode of “The Dope Joints” show, which has aired on UMFM (the University of Manitoba’s campus radio station) since 1998. The ever-changing landscape of hip-hop will… Continue reading A Fond Farewell…The Dope Joints Last Episode
Introducing… The Future
If you’ve had the chance to catch one or more of my past few performances in Winnipeg, you’ve been fortunate enough to experience the great accompanying power of my good friend Jonathan Askholm. Jon is someone who I’ve known for so long I don’t remember meeting him. It was probably in our grade one class,… Continue reading Introducing… The Future