Thanks to everyone who has voted in the WRPCA finals so far! Vote here if you haven’t already.

Also, don’t forget to tune into Wizarding Radio Hour today at 4pm EST.

General

Matt of The Whomping Willows was interviewed for an article called, “Hobbits, wizards, and storm troopers: the future of fan art” on Scholars and Rogues. The article focuses on fan created works and some of the copyright questions that can arise.

Bruce from Mirror of Erised gives a heads-up about some free recording software you can download here. It “provides MIDI and AUDIO multitrack recording capabilities at an unbeatable price – FREE. Ok, I agree the application isn’t on-par with Cubase, Sonar, Garageband, Logic or ProTools, but for the price, it might be worth checking out to upcoming wrockers wanting to record their music.”

Kristina of The Parselmouths and Luke from Ministry of Magic have teamed up for a Muggle project called ALL CAPS. Check out their MySpace to hear their music and buy their CD, Songs In the Key of Email.

Split Seven Ways‘ ‘Up To No Good’ is now available on iTunes.

Wrockstock passes will increase starting September 1st. Adult passes will be $150, Junior passes $100, and Kids’ passes will be $50. Head over to the Wrockstock website to get yours at the discounted rate now! You can also check out the first tshirt for Wrockstock the Third here.

Speaking of Wrockstock, have you been to the forums lately? Felena posted this on Wednesday: “The morning drive time DJ team on my favorite radio station played about 45 seconds of ‘Creepy Mustache’ this morning. Kevin (one of the personalities) has been trying for weeks to grow a mustache. His partner on the show, Liz, has been giving him merciless amounts of crap about it. I called in this morning and told Liz to search youtube for the video of ‘Creepy Mustache’ because I felt she could especially identify with the song. They played my call on the radio and about 10 minutes later I’m driving down the highway laughing at their daily antics when suddenly I heard the unmistakable “OH MY GOD!! Look at that mustache!!” I screamed…I squeed…I laughed so hard I nearly ran a muggle off the road! For a moment I thought they were going to play the whole song…but alas, they stopped because it was creeping Kevin out. Just had to share!!”

Shows

We’ve added a few new shows to the calendar this week:
The Whomping Willows, Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills, and The Moaning Myrtles have an Ohio show on June 2nd.

The New Castle Library in Armonk, NY will host another Witch Rock series show on May 18th with Astoria Malfoy (of Swish and Flick), Witherwings, Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons, DJ Luna Lovegood, Fred and George the band, Celestial Warmbottom, Madame Pince and the Librarians, and Toujours Pur.

The next day, you can check out DJ Luna Lovegood, The Butterbeer Experience, Snidget, The Cedric Diggorys, and The Princess of Hogwarts in Bethlehem, PA.

And May 20th, Swish and Flick’s blogTV channel will broadcast the Sidewalk Cafe show with Swish and Flick, The House of Black, The Butterbeer Experience, Snidget, and Witherwings.

Witherwings has added some other shows for May, too!

Albums

Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills has a new album available for pre-order! Head over to his blog to check out the artwork and find out how you can place your order.

DJ Luna Lovegood posted a progress report on her latest album here.

Tonks and the Aurors will be releasing a live album at LeakyCon called aLIVE in Love. There will only be 100 copies printed, so make sure you grab yours early.

Witherwings has posted a PayPal link to buy her latest album, Witherwings Presents… Malfoy and other Musical Creations.

Songs

I Was Lord Elbin Ausley has three new songs up, ‘Wormtail’s Dead’, ‘At the Hog’s Head Inn’, and ‘Horcrux Huntin”.

Split Seven Ways has a new version of ‘Sectumsempra’, done in the style of Dresden Dolls.

Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons added ‘The Raid’ this week.

Kingsley and the Shacklebolts added some songs from their 2008 album The Order of Wrock.

Hinky Punks have also added some older songs.

Riddle™ have a new song, ‘This Is Goodbye’, with lyrics here.

Stacy of Swish and Flick and Erin of The House of Black have written a LeakyCon theme song. All proceeds go to Book Aid International, and you can buy it here.

Gred and Forge is putting up a new song every day until LeakyCon, so keep checking back to listen.