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We Have Our Final Ballot!

Dinahsaur

We need just a bit more time to set up the final voting for the Wizard Rock People’s Choice Awards. In the meantime, we’ve got a list of nominees for you to mull over!

Also, due to the nature of the nomination process, we are going to wait a little longer to release the list of final nominations for the following categories as we confirm a few details regarding them: Best Music Video, Best Song, Band of the Year

Enjoy!!

Best Folk/Country/Blues Song
‘Dearest Delusional’ – The Buttermellows
‘Hogwarts Express’ – Draco and the Malfoys
‘This Land Is My Land’ – Draco and the Malfoys
‘Off to Hogwarts’ – Creevey Crisis
‘Apparate’ – The Buttermellows

Best Punk Song
‘Detention Sucks’ – All Aboard the Knight Bus
‘Fenrir’ – Solitary Snape
‘Marietta’s a Sneak’ – Hawthorn & Holly
‘Pizza in the Hall’ – Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
‘The #1 Reason to Be Nice to House Elves’ – Gred and Forge

Best Techno/Electronica Song
‘Astoria Greengrass and the Half-Blood Prince’ – Swish and Flick
‘The Lightning Struck Tower’ – Ministry of Magic
‘The Empty Corridor’ – Miss Parkinson
‘Gryffindor Rally Cry’ – Ministry of Magic
‘Ravin’ in the Great Hall’ – The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office

Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song
‘I Wanna Be a Wizard’ – Danny Dementor with Notorious N.E.V.
‘House Elf 4 Life’ – MC Kreacher
‘My Dad is Rich (on a boat)’ – Swish and Flick
‘Quidditch Witch’ – Swish and Flick, Split Seven Ways, Fred and George the Band
‘Don’t Touch That!’ – MC Kreacher

Best Collaboration
‘Leaky Con Theme Song’ – House of Black and Swish and Flick
‘Only Power Remains’ – Ministry of Magic and Nina Jankowicz
‘A Conversation with My Demons’ – The Whomping Willows and Mark Jennings
‘Fair Fortune – A Wrock Opera’ – The Butterbeer Experience, Christie Mowery, Erin Pyne, Kristina Horner, and Jason Munday
‘One Last Goodbye’ – Let’s Lumos! and Jason Munday
‘Taking You Back’ – Tonks and the Aurors and Alex Carpenter

Best Holiday Song
‘Malfoy for Christmas’ – Swish and Flick
‘Over Christmas Break’ – Hawthorn and Holly
‘Sonorus!’ – Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons
‘It’s Not Christmas’ – The Moaning Myrtles
‘Anthony Goldstein, You’re a Jew’ – Madame Pince and the Librarians

Best Comedy Song
‘My Dad Is Rich (On a Boat)’ – Swish and Flick
‘Lily’s Worst Memory’ – The Blibbering Humdingers
‘Rubeus Hagrid and the Long Island Iced Tea’ – Muggle Relations
‘Merch Girls Are Easy’ – The Whomping Willows
‘No Shame in Hufflepuff’ – The Blibbering Humdingers

Best Metawizardrock Song
‘A Brief Repose’ – The Whomping Willows
‘Wizard Rock Boyfriend’ – Miss Parkinson
‘I Lose Myself’ – The Blibbering Humdingers
‘It’s Not Christmas’ – The Moaning Myrtles
‘I Wanna Be a Wizard’ – Danny Dementor with Notorious N.E.V.

Best Live Act
Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
The Remus Lupins
Harry and the Potters
The Whomping Willows
Swish and Flick

Best Merchandise Item
Kazoos from Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
Coloring Books from Tonks and the Aurors
Golden Snitch Necklaces from Madame Pince and the Librarians
“JFF is my BFF” Pint Glasses from Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
Sunglasses from Tonks and the Aurors
Beer Koozies from The Whomping Willows

Best Album Art
Jill Santiago (In the House of Slytherin by Swish and Flick)
Frankie Franco III (Demons at the Helm by The Whomping Willows)
Brandon Nicholas (The Rest is Silence by The Remus Lupins)
Frankie Franco III (Onward and Upward by Ministry of Magic)
Lena Iren Volden (Lily’s Last Breath by The Silver Doe)

Best New Artist
Standing in Line
The Magizoologists
I Speak Tree
Let’s Lumos!
Miss Parkinson

Best Youth Effort
The Deathsticks
Standing in Line
The Half-Kneazles
I Speak Tree
The Nifflers

Best Kept Secret Award
The Buttermellows
Miss Parkinson
Let’s Lumos
The Silver Doe
Witherwings

Best Ravenclaw Band
The Silver Doe
Catchlove
The Buttermellows
Madame Pince and the Librarians
DJ Luna Lovegood

Best Hufflepuff Band
The Butterbeer Experience
The Swedish Shortsnouts
Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
Tonks and the Aurors
The Half-Kneazles

Best Gryffindor Band
Neville’s Diary
The Mudbloods
Gred and Forge
Harry and the Potters
Creevey Crisis

Best Slytherin Band
Riddle TM
Swish and Flick
Miss Parkinson
The Blibbering Humdingers
The Parselmouths

Best Male Vocals
The Mudbloods
The Remus Lupins
The Whomping Willows
MC Kreacher
Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls

Best Female Vocals
Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons
Let’s Lumos!
Swish and Flick
The Moaning Myrtles
Tonks and the Aurors

Best Instrumental Musicianship
Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls
Diagon Alley
Swish and Flick
Gred and Forge
The Remus Lupins

International Awards
Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons (Ireland)
Miss Parkinson (Canada)
peeved (UK)
The Nifflers (Canada)
The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office (UK)
Split Seven Ways (UK)
Salemm Rock (Spain)

Best Full-Length Album
Demons at the Helm by The Whomping Willows
In the House of Slytherin by Swish and Flick
The Rest is Silence by The Remus Lupins
Onward and Upward by Ministry of Magic
VII by Creevey Crisis
We Are Magic by Tonks and the Aurors

Best EP
Tonks for the Memories by Tonks and the Aurors
Songs from Beedle the Bard by The Butterbeer Experience
Alone in the Dark by MC Kreacher
Bare Bones by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls
With Love and Poison by Swish and Flick

Best Compilation Album
We’re Freakin’ Awesome: A Tribute to Draco and the Malfoys
Jingle Spells 3
From Beneath These Ashes
Wrockin’ in a Wizard Wonderland
All You Need Is (Wizard) Love

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Co-Senior Editor of the Wizrocklopedia, founder and writer of the Daily Wrocket, and dedicated Wizard Rock fan of the ages.

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25 responses to “We Have Our Final Ballot!”

  1. WizardRockDA Avatar
    WizardRockDA

    Wait, Lena’s a Hufflepuff? And the Humdingers are SLYTHERIN!?!? Wow… I was thinking Lena was a Ravenclaw, and I would have sworn up and down the Humdingers were Gryffindors. Apparently I’m waaay off on what houses some people are in. 😛

    Congrats to everyone who got nominated! Deciding who to nominate and vote for keeps getting harder every year as there’s ever more awesome bands to choose from. Sometimes I wish every category worked like the International Awards just because choosing a single (song/CD/band) to vote for in any given category is hard to do with so many highly worthy options to choose from. XD

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  2. Clare Avatar
    Clare

    Heck yeah, Lena is a Puff! It sucks (to be a Hufflepuff) is by the butterbeer experience, and she’s proud to have the badger as a mascot 🙂

    Anyways, that’s a pretty awesome list!

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  3. Flick Avatar
    Flick

    This is exciting!!! Thanks to everyone that put in a nomination for us.

    One small correction for Quidditch Witch under Best Hip-Hop: Fred and George The Band participated in that song, not Gred and Forge.

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  4. Marauder Avatar
    Marauder

    Oooh, good, a bunch of my nominations made the final ballot…”Dearest, Delusional” for Best Folk/Country/Blues Song, “Fair Fortune – A Wrock Opera” for Best Collaboration, “Lily’s Worst Memory” for Best Comedy Song, Let’s Lumos! for Best New Artist and Best Kept Secret, The Deathsticks for Best Youth Effort, JFF for Best Hufflepuff Band, Swish and Flick for Best Slytherin Band, Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons and Let’s Lumos! for Best Female Vocals, Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons for International, “VII” for Best Full-Length Album, and “Tonks for the Memories” for Best EP.

    Congratulations to everybody! This looks like a great final ballot full of talented people and terrific music. 😀

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  5. Marauder Avatar
    Marauder

    Oh – even if we didn’t get on the final ballot, thanks to everyone who voted for “If I Were A Snitch, Man” for Best Comedy Song, because I know some of you did. Next year we’ll get even better and sweep this thing. 😉

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  6. Christie Avatar
    Christie

    Thanks for all the nominations!! What a diverse and exciting ballot!! Good luck everyone!!<3

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  7. Dinahsaur Avatar
    Dinahsaur

    Fixed, my dear Flick! That was totally my typo late in the night. Yikes!

    I’m so glad you all are happy with the results so far! I can’t wait to share with you the final three categories!

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  8. the Giant Squidstravaganza Avatar
    the Giant Squidstravaganza

    THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

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  9. Scott Humdinger Avatar
    Scott Humdinger

    If it’s not too late, I’d like to nominate the Giant Squidstravaganza for “Best use of Multiple Appendages” Though I suppose Ministry of Magic Would also fall into this category. (Besides, I heard they’re only doing Giant Squidstravaganza covers for their set at Wrockstock this year).

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  10. SarahW Avatar
    SarahW

    Thanks for putting this together. The list alone is reminder enough of why I love wizard rock.

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  11. Dawlish and the Archies Avatar
    Dawlish and the Archies

    IN YOUR FACE, GIANT SQUID! IF YOU HADN’T CALLED US HATERS, THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED – BECAUSE WE RIGGED THIS! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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  12. Ariel Avatar
    Ariel

    It’s a trap!

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  13. Becky (The Silver Doe) Avatar
    Becky (The Silver Doe)

    Hey, this is Becky from The Silver Doe! First of all, I’d like to thank you for all of the work you put into this, I think it’s a really good thing to generate interest for wizard rock and to get the word out about all the amazing bands that exist.

    Secondly, I just wanted to let you know that the album art from my album Lily’s Last Breath was done by Lena Iren Olden, since you didn’t have a name there.

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  14. Clare Avatar
    Clare

    I second Scott’s nomination.

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  15. Freya Avatar
    Freya

    Thanks, Becky! We couldn’t find her name anywhere, and she definitely deserves the credit. Her work was beautiful.

    As for the Giant Squid…better luck next year, dude! Maybe by then you will have used your squiddy powers for evil and taken over the Wizrocklopedia. We wish you the best of luck.

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  16. Abby Avatar
    Abby

    Yeah… we need to clarify something, too.
    I just wanted y’all to know that OUR squid, the purple & pink spokesquid for Wrockstock, also known as Squiddy… he doesn’t neccessarily agree with or support the opinions and statements shared by the other giant squid in question.
    He’s simply happy for all the nominees.
    😀

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  17. Denni Towle Avatar
    Denni Towle

    Well at least The Cruciatus Curse is sorta nominated with the “We’re Freakin Awesome” compulation…works for me

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  18. Brad Ausrotas Avatar
    Brad Ausrotas

    I had no IDEA that Jace was a ‘Claw. Now I know who I’m voting for! Also, I guess it’s pretty bad of me that I didn’t know MoM put out an album last year xD

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  19. Jenni Avatar
    Jenni

    OMG. There are so many awesome nominees, I have no idea who to vote for! Aggghhh!!!!!!

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  20. PK9 Avatar
    PK9

    Wow, these nominations are incredible. It’s gonna be hard to choose!

    Yay, I finally get to vote! The last two years I missed the voting by a few days each time :p

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  21. badger666 Avatar
    badger666

    Tough choices! When will the final ballot be available?

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  22. Lynn418 Avatar
    Lynn418

    Hmm,
    With a few exceptions, this list was entirely too predictable. The same people are nominated every year.

    You people need to expand your musical horizons. There are TONS of great bands out there that never get any cred. Just because they’re not the “Big 10” doesn’t mean they suck.

    Granted, the “Big 10” are pretty rockin’…it’s just disappointing to see the same people get recognized over and over while others are struggling so hard just to even be heard.

    I think next year the ‘Pedia could benefit from having a few more categories that encourage people to listen to OTHER, less known bands, that the regulars aren’t eligible for. “Best Kept Secret” and “Best New Band” just don’t cut it. It’s just 2 categories for the other HUNDREDS of bands to try and get in to.

    And yeah, while not everyone can win….we’re a community that needs to practice what we preach and really support EVERYONE and not just the same people all the time.

    I nominated several bands that just didn’t get enough nominations, I guess, who have a lot of musical talent that no one will give the time of day because they’re not one of the “in” bands…no matter how hard they seem to be trying.

    I don’t want to cheapen anyone’s nomination, I think everyone listed deserves it, I just think there should be more opportunities for the “smaller” bands (who, let’s face it, are the long-term FUTURE of wrock) to really feel appreciated and successful. It’s incredibly discouraging for them, I hear, to put in so much effort and then nobody appears to care. It’s almost like many of these bands are being “rejected” from wrock, which is just not cool. If we’re going to be a community that claims to be supportive, we really need to take steps to facilitate achieving that.

    And yeah, not everyone can win or be nominated…but the WRPCA’s need to be potentially attainable by everyone. That’s something that we, as fans, need to do for our community…and that the Pedia can help with by maybe adding some new categories.

    Weren’t there, last year, like “best non-human” band and “best underwater band” and stuff?

    /rant

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  23. badger666 Avatar
    badger666

    The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office totally should have been nominated for best full length album!

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  24. MissParkinson Avatar
    MissParkinson

    @Lynn418 I had the same complaint last year, about how so many smaller bands didn’t get in, and while I agree it has something to do with how many categories there are, you can’t blame a band for having fans.

    Smaller bands need to network, and network hard. There are 900 bands now, and it’s hard for everyone to just go through the listings and listen to every single band. We usually learn of bands through reccomendations.

    Want them to make onto next years ballot? Then let them know that they need to start shamelessly self-promoting themselves, and YOU need to tell everyone you can about them!

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  25. Abby Avatar
    Abby

    That’s a really naive statement, Miss Parkinson.
    Sorry, but I’m gunna have to disagree with that. I can only speak for myself, but when I see a band being shamelessly self-promotey, it totally turns me off… especially if I don’t like their music all that much to begin with. It comes across pretty d-baggy if you haven’t got the skills to back it up. There is a “right” level of promotion that most of the most popular bands have been giving examples of for years.
    I don’t reward d-bag behavior no matter what and I don’t think the wizard rock community does either. So I’m gunna call that bad advice.
    Still love ya, just disagree.
    -Abby H.

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