{"id":1799,"date":"2011-06-03T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2011-06-03T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:00:15","slug":"who-polices-the-witchpolice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/06\/03\/who-polices-the-witchpolice\/","title":{"rendered":"Who polices the WITCHPOLICE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kent Davies<\/strong>
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\nWitchpolice is a local music blog staring renaissance rapper Rob Crooks (Magnum K.I., Fucking Retards) and father of the year Sam Thompson (Mouthboat). As the dynamic duo known as Dynamo they created Witchpolice as a way to unleash their spaced-out hip hop to the world. \u201cIt was the only thing to do,\u201d explained Thompson in a recent interview on CKUW 95.9 FM. \u201cWe weren\u2019t playing shows at that point and we weren\u2019t going to make any hard copies so we figured hey let\u2019s just make a free blog and just put our music up there.\u201d
\nNow the site has become a one-stop shop full of free local music rarities, unreleased demos, basement bootlegs, psychedelic videos and more.
\nOriginally the blog only featured a few acts the two knew personally. Thompson explains, \u201cRob and I were in bands since we were kids and we knew a lot of people that played music of some kind or another.\u201d Those musical friends being the Brat Attack, the punk band with the record for the most revolving door members, and teen ska sensation Grandpa\u2019s Army.
\nOver time the response to the site has gotten larger as has the site\u2019s content. \u201cMore people know about it now \u2013 their friends started checking it out and so it goes,\u201d says Crooks. \u201cIt just seemed if we\u2019re doing this for our own music we might as well do it for others.\u201d
\nAlthough Witchpolice still features a majority of the staple acts Rob and Sam are involved in, many other acts are starting to submit their unreleased demos, bootleg shows and other content to the site. \u201cWe\u2019ve been getting people submitting stuff to us that we don\u2019t know personally which is cool,\u201d says Thompson. The two are hoping the trend continues. \u201cIt\u2019s not really about the recording quality. We want it if it\u2019s something we think is cool or it sounds good or if we like what they\u2019re doing.\u201d
\nAlong with the promise of local acts submitting their buried treasured tunes to the site, the duo are working on posting new material from Dynamo. \u201cExpect a cross between Kraftwerk and the Butthole Surfers,\u201d says Crooks.
\nThe two also have plans to post past CKUW 95.9 FM live performances. Recently, Witchpolice posted a live recording of Canadian reggae band Friendlyness and the Human Rights. The act played the Albert as part of the last Winnipeg ska and reggae festival, which was originally broadcast on CKUW and UMFM and now posted to the blog. \u201cI got it from the radio and have been listening to it straight since \u2013 I posted it because it\u2019s one of my favorite acts in Canada,\u201d explains Thompson. The site also features new videos from Shoshaku Jushaku, the new project from members of the legendary basement showmen the Mouthboat.
\nThe great thing about Witchpolice is not just that it features local music but how it features local music. Instead of posting polished samples of a local artists\u2019 latest album it\u2019s often ten year old unreleased demos of a local artists\u2019 first punk band. In that regard, hopefully musicians everywhere will start looking for something that may not sound so sweet but is worth sharing anyway. Check it out http:\/\/witchpolice.blogspot.com<\/a> and submit it out at witchpolicemail@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kent Davies Witchpolice is a local music blog staring renaissance rapper Rob Crooks (Magnum K.I., Fucking Retards) and father of the year Sam Thompson (Mouthboat). As the dynamic duo known as Dynamo they created Witchpolice as a way to unleash their spaced-out hip hop to the world. \u201cIt was the only thing to do,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1114],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-witchpolice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}