Month: September 2013
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Flashback Friday – Tom Riddle and Friends
The wizard rock world is a quieter place without the sweet, sweet crooning of these fine young gentlemen. One of the best wizard rock videos ever? Possibly. Possibly.
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Wrock Wednesday – Beyond HP Conventions
This week’s Wrock Wednesday is a special guest post from Scott Vaughan, one half of the wizard rock duo the Blibbering Humdingers. The Humdingers have made a name for themselves with their catchy, incredibly funny songs and have played countless shows, ranging from libraries to living rooms to Wrockstock to LeakyCon. Scott has some great…
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Question Tuesday – Let’s Hang Out!
We’re always trying to come up with articles, interviews, and reviews that interest wizard rock fans, and we also have been kicking around some other ideas on sharing wizard rock with everyone. Recently, Dinah came up with a great idea – why not have some live online listening parties, where a host plays wizard rock,…
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Snobby Sundays: Bella’s Love
I’m back! I hope you all treated the Wizard Rock Reviewbot 3000 nicely while I was away – thon gets a little cranky at times. This week we will be taking a look at one of my favorite old-school wizard rock bands – Bella’s Love.
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Flashback Friday – Thestral
Sectumsempra from Thestral on Myspace. That’s right, for this week’s Flashback Friday, it’s wizard rock’s original thrash metal band, Thestral! Thestral only has three songs up on their MySpace page at this point, and no other place to listen to their fantastic 80’s metal inspired wrock songs. They were quite active from 2006 until around…
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Wrock Wednesday – “The Doe” by A Singing Detective
This beautiful little ditty started making it’s way around Tumblr a few days ago, and it’s just too brilliant not to share. I think it’s safe to say that nearly everyone is a sucker for a Snape/Lily song, and this one doesn’t disappoint. A Singing Detective has been writing songs about plenty of other…
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Question Tuesday – The New Movies
As we talked about on Saturday, the new series of movies beginning with “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will be the first “official” new material in the Potterverse since the release of Deathly Hallows, and some of JKR’s statements afterwards. It’s going to be an exciting leadup to the premier of the first…
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Will A New Movie Inspire New Wizard Rock?
In news that sent the Internet into spastic fits of pure joy, JK Rowling announced that she’ll be screenwriting a series of new Harry Potter movies based around “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them”, one of her offshoot books (along with “Quidditch Through The Ages” and “The Tales of Beedle The Bard”). Not only…
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Flashback Friday – How Airplanes Fly
This week’s Flashback Friday features the incomparable How Airplanes Fly!! Some recent posts on Tumblr had me over at Abril’s old YouTube channel listening to the few videos that are there. Unfortunately I lost her music a few years back, and aside from MySpace, there’s no place else to listen to her songs. So head…
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Wrock Wednesday – Tianna and the Cliffhangers “Out Of Character”
Tianna and the Cliffhangers earlier this week released their new album, “Out of Character” on their Bandcamp page! “Out of Character” features 15 songs for $10. The songs themselves are a combination of wizard rock songs mixed in with tunes about Lord of the Rings, along with a few songs of a muggle nature.…