Less than four days until Half-Blood Prince!

General

With the approach of Half-Blood Prince, wizard rock has really gotten a lot of attention from Muggles this week! If you happen to catch something, please email us or Tweet it to @wizrocklopedia so we can get the word out.

Stacy of Swish and Flick was interviewed for this piece in Time Out New York.

The New York Post talked with Miles of MC Kreacher and Paul of Harry and the Potters here.

MercuryNews.com interviewed Alex of The Remus Lupins, Christie of 142 Staircases, Miles Kane and Josh Koury from We Are Wizards, and Dinah for this article.

Time Magazine even wrote about wizard rock! The story is online here, and you can pick up a copy from the newsstand starting on Tuesday.

The Harry Potter Alliance is continuing their What Would Dumbledore Do? campaign. Paul DeGeorge’s contribution can be found here and Matt Maggiacomo’s here.

Shows

We added a show with Kwikspell, Secondhand Magic Supplies, and Statutory Snape on July 18th. Check the calendar for details.

Harry and the Potters will be playing three shows in the next few days in anticipation of Half-Blood Prince. Details here.

Albums

Prophets of Godrics Hollow have posted some free downloads for us. An instrumental version of their upcoming album, Death Eater Madness, is available here, and an album of remixed Nine Inch Nails songs can be found here.

Hogwarts Hotel has their debut EP, Prophecies, for you here.

After not hearing from them for awhile, Hollow Godric has promised to have a new album for us on August 7th!

Songs

New songs this week:
‘Ferocious Dragon Hunger!!’ by The Bandon Banshees

‘With Great Power…’, ‘Empty Lies (Trapped By Time Wremix)’, a remix of The Grey Ladies‘ song, and ‘All Is Well (Slytherin Dystopia Mix)’, a remix of a Split Seven Ways song by Dawlish and the Archies.

‘My Prophecy’ by The Butterbeer Experience, available on YouTube.

Videos

Siriusly Hazza P has a video up for ‘Malfoy is a Jerk’ that you can check out here, and they also covered Take That’s ‘The Garden’.

Below is a seriously fun fanvid for Gred and Forge‘s D.A. Power that includes Tianna of I Speak Tree.