Month: August 2020
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Timeturner: A Look Back at Youtube
Welcome to Timeturner, a monthly visit to the past! Each month I’ll take a closer look at some aspect of wizard rock history – events, trends, the community, and more. This month, we’re taking a dive into the land of magical moving pictures: Youtube! Just as a warning: some of the links in this article may…
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Creevey Tuesdays: Tonks and the Aurors
For this week’s photo feature, we’re traveling back to the 2018 Boston Yule Ball. Here Steph Anderson of Tonks and the Aurors takes center stage! With a Hufflepuff guitar and an incredibly coordinated yellow-and-black suit, Steph always brings maximum Hufflepuff energy. Their most recent album “HUFFLERIOT” was also released in 2018, and it’s always worth…
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Snobby Sundays: Seven Potters
Oh thank God I said “next time” in the last article, and not “next week”. Anywho – hey there, wizard kids! Welcome back to Snobby Sundays, an occasional series where I, the Wrock Snob, introduce you to a less-famous wizard rock band that I really dig. Today, we’re looking at Seven Potters, a one-myn acoustic-focused…
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The Wrock Wreview – Welcome to 2458
Welcome to the second installment of the Wrock Wreview! This week I had the honor of reviewing Welcome to 2458: A Wizard Rock Compilation Inspired by Performances in Room 2458. You know what FOMO is? That feeling of missing out? That’s what I feel when listening to this album. I want to be in the…
bella and le strangers, compilations, hawthorn & holly, hogwarts a history, justin finch-fletchley and the sugar quills, riddletm, romilda vane and the chocolate cauldrons, snidget, swish and flick, terminus, the gryffindor common room rejects, the house of black, the hufflepunks, the mudbloods, the tonk, witherwings -
Archive Releases: The Vanishing Cabinet
This Friday, the Wizrocklopedia is excited to rerelease two EPs by Jenn Somers’ wizard rock project the Vanishing Cabinet! First is A Closet Full of Wrock, which comes with previously unreleased bonus tracks! ??A Closet Full of Wrock by The Vanishing Cabinet Second is A Vanishing Dittany Christmas, which was done in collaboration with Essence of Dittany and is…
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Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 2: The Vanishing Glass
Back for another installment of Wrock the Reread! In this chapter Harry visits a zoo for his cousins birthday and things go a little sideways. Featured bands include: Kwikspell, Harry and the Potters, Hawthorn and Holly, Wrackspurts!, Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons, and Slytherin Soundtrack Let me know if I missed any songs, or…
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Creevey Tuesdays: The Misbehavin’ Maidens
Check out this inter-house unity: it’s the Misbehavin’ Maidens, performing live at Misti-Con 2019! While the Maidens are not strictly a wizard rock band, they do have a great a capella shanty about how “Slytherins are Misunderstood,” and they’re always bringing sex-positive nerdy jams to the convention scene. Thanks to Mermanda for the awesome photo!
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Into the Pensieve: Wrock in Retrospect – Infinitus 2010
by Stacy Santiago Pisani CW: Contains mentions of Ministry of Magic and The Remus Lupins Swish and Flick at Infinitus 2010, Night of Frivolity Ball. Photo Credit: D. Tortorella for HPEF Concerts. Conferences. Concerts at cons. Let’s all release a deep forlorn sigh as we remember those days. Whether it was last year or last…
fred lives, hawthorn & holly, infinitus, justin finch-fletchley and the sugar quills, madam pince and the librarians, mc kreacher, ministry of magic, swish and flick, the blibbering humdingers, the butterbeer experience, the chocolate frogs, the gryffindor common room rejects, the house of black, the moaning myrtles, the parselmouths, the remus lupins, the whomping willows, witherwings -
Kwikspell #1: The Magic of Songwriting
Welcome to Kwikspell, a new magical correspondence course in column form! Each month, you’ll learn some how-tos to help you make cool things in the wizard rock world. Although this column is called “Kwikspell,” it’s unfortunately not written by the band Kwikspell (or QuickSpell), just by Grace Kendall. A song is a magical thing –…
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Creevey Tuesdays: The Swedish Shortsnouts!
For this week’s Creevey Tuesday, let’s go to MultiCon 2016 held in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s not a surprise to find The Swedish Shortsnouts rocking out there to a packed house! In this photograph, the band is performing their song “Harry Potter.” Give it a listen while staring at this photo – you’ll feel like you…