Welcome to this week’s Wrock Wrap Up! Don’t forget to keep us updated on your Wrock news! (no, seriously, please let us know about any news – be it a new song, an album release, a show, etc. We’ll be happy to write it up for you!)

General

Lauren Fairweather posted a heartfelt letter on her website to thank her fans for all of their support over the years. No Lauren, thank YOU for all of the songs, smiles, videos, and encouragement you’ve given to all of US over the years!

The Witching Hour’s latest podcast “The Limits of Magic” discusses how magic works within the Potterverse, and features 22 wizard rock songs. Be sure to check them out, and subscribe if you haven’t already.

Albums

Slytherin Soundtrack has released a new 10 song album “Magical Beasts and Nice Giants“, which you can download completely free of charge at their Bandcamp page. (Yes we know it was released in April, we’re still playing catch up here!)

Shows

The Nerd Music Spectacular Spectacular Show of a Life Time will be on June 8, 2013 in Springfield, VA. The show will be held from 4pm-10pm at The Agape House, and bands appearing will include:

–The Blibbering Humdingers 
–Hawthorn & Holly
-The District 13 Cowboys
–Witherwings
-Jared TWG (The Wizard Guy)

Other bands may be added to the lineup as well in the coming weeks. For more information about the lineup or how to get there, visit the show’s Facebook event page.

Videos

A large number of new original wizard rock songs can now be found on YouTube thanks to the upcoming LeakyStars contest. Artists releasing songs include:

Anna Stephenson “The Owl Song”
Leila “Love Songs for Wizards”
Michael Crowley “I Am A Wizard”
Linda Gatt “LeakyCon (This Is Me)”

Thanks to Steph from Tonks and the Aurors for the tip on these videos! These are just a few of the many videos that were released this week, so if you also have a video for LeakyStars 2013 leave a link in the comments so we can all go check it out!