Welcome back, wrock fans one and all, to the third and final part of the January-June 2021 Wizard Rock Six Month Report! If you’d like, you can check out parts one and two as well!

What a six months it has been for wizard rock. So many new bands popping up and old bands still recording, so many amazing online concerts (and the return of a few in-person shows!!!!), so much fan support and positive discourse and kinship. That’s what the wizard rock community is about, and we’re not going anywhere! Wrock is life and we are glad that you, reader, are along for the ride with us!

All in all, there have been 40 new releases in the past six months—plus 13 old releases reissued by the ‘Pedia (and there’s a heckuva lot more where those came from, y’all!). That’s more than THREE HUNDRED wizard rock songs, both new and newly rereleased!

OK. Y’all ready? Click on the “more” button, because the last set of magnificent wrock releases is listed below! Let’s go!

STOP THE PRESSES! On the day before this post was supposed to be published, I found out about three AMAZING releases that we missed from last year! They’re all by the incredible Argentinian fan composer Pablo Flores Torres! I’ll list them here so you can jam out to them!

July 15, 2020: Pablo Flores Torres – Y si la historia de DUMBLEDORE fuese un MUSICAL: iTunes | Spotify | Video | YouTube

Yes, the title’s a bit YouTube-y, but the songs are incredible! This is the Spanish-language story of Dumbledore’s younger days and is truly not to be missed!

September 14, 2020: Pablo Flores Torres – What if DUMBLEDORE became an EPIC MUSICAL?: iTunes | Spotify | Video | YouTube

If you can’t speak Spanish, no problem! Pablo Flores Torres also released a version of his epic Dumbledore musical in English–and it’s incredible!

December 13, 2020: Pablo Flores Torres – “Nuestro Hogar:” Video

The first single in a planned musical about Hogwarts’ founders, this song is wonderfully animated and is a tantalizing teaser for the rest of the project! Can’t wait to hear the full thing!

 

 

Alright! Now let’s get back into our regularly scheduled Six Month Report! SO MUCH WIZARD ROCK!!!!

April 18: Dream Quaffle – “I’m an Eagle:” Bandcamp

Brand-new wrocker Dream Quaffle blasted onto the scene with their debut single! This acapella jam celebrates all the Ravenclaws out there! Woop woop!

April 30: Swell Rell – “We Are Slytherin:” iTunes | Spotify | Video | YouTube

…And just in case you Slytherins were feeling kinda miffed, nerd rapper Swell Rell released this incredible song about the awesomeness and majesty of Slyyyytheriiiiin!

May 7: The Blibbering Humdingers – Positively Gruntled: A Collection of Non-Sequitur Ditties album: Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube

Longtime wrockers and filkers the Blibbering Humdingers have only 2 wizard rock songs on their new album—but they’re good ones! “Queenie’s Curse” and “Ravenclaw Founders Song” are both wonderful and actually surprisingly serious for the Blibs.

May 7: Various artists – The Nordic Alliance of Love album: Bandcamp

The Wizrocklopedia rereleased this extremely rare and amazing Swedish wrock compilation album from 2008, featuring many exclusive songs by the Swedish Shortsnouts, Nevilles & the Trevor, and many more!

May 8: Bradley’s Ukulele – “Wow, Awesome Silver Hand!:” YouTube

The latest ukulele wizard rock cover (yet!) that Bradley Malfoy has done is of Roonil Wazlib’s classic song “Wow, Awesome Silver Hand!” We love it!

May 15: Various artists – Hut on the Wrock: A Sea Shanty Comp album: Bandcamp

This is one heck of an album! Totally Knuts organized an incredible compilation of rip-roaring new wizard rock sea shanties by the likes of Sonorus, Gringotts Girls, Potterwatch and more! All of the songs are unbelievably great!

May 16 – May 21: Various artists and Mugglenet – Wizovision 2021 “EP:” YouTube

A crew of folks from Mugglenet put together this delightful and fun lil’ concept project on YouTube! What if wizards had Eurovision? That’s what’s happening here! Each song has a video and they’re all jams!

May 18: The Whomping Willows – Revisionist History album: Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube

Why yes, the Whomping Willows put out a new album! Featuring several new songs and several wonderfully reimagined versions of old favorites, this album proves once again why tWW are one of the hardest-wrocking bands around!

May 21: Celestial Warmbottom – Celestial Warmbottom: Empress of Wizard Blues EP: Bandcamp

On May 21, the ‘Pedia rereleased two remarkable old wizard rock EPs! Celestial Warmbottom is an NYC wrock mainstay and we were so happy to get her one and only EP out into the world again!

May 21: Neville’s Diary – Least Expected EP: Bandcamp

Neville’s Diary continues to be marvelous, and we rereleased their second EP, which features 6 songs delving deep into Neville Longbottom’s character!

May 21: Lady Parts – “Voldemort Under My Headscarf:” iTunes | Spotify | YouTube

Is it wrock? We say YES! Netflix’s sitcom We Are Lady Parts, about an all-women British Muslim punk band, features this absolute bop that deserves to be turned up to 11!

May 29: Slytherin – “Dementor’s Kiss:” Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube

It’s a surprise new single by Slytherin, wizard rock’s premier black metal auteurs! This song shows you what a dementor’s kiss really feels like…

June 10: The Cruciatus Curse – TH1RTE3N album: Bandcamp

Equal parts hip hop, metal, and pop, the Cruciatus Curse’s long-awaited new album is a deeply personal exploration of the dark side, simultaneously introspective and boisterous!

June 11: The Lovegoods – “I’ve Got Friends:” Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify | Video

The Lovegoods finally recorded this stunningly beautiful song about Luna Lovegood—and they got their friend Ellie Anglin to make an astonishing collage video for it, to boot!

June 17: Gnargles – Gnargles album: Bandcamp | iTunes | GoFundMe | Spotify

What music would Hogwarts students be jamming to today? That’s the question Gnargles answered with their collaborative debut Potterpop album! All proceeds from it go to the Trevor Project, and it’s 100% worth every cent! Please note: only three of the 14 songs are currently available on Bandcamp and they are being released in batches on Spotify and iTunes—you can get all of the songs at once by donating to their GoFundMe campaign!

June 30: Wizrocklopedia Compilation Club #2: Wizard Rock Around the World album: Not publicly available—sign up here to get all four albums!

Squeaking in juuuust under the wire, the Wizrocklopedia Compilation Club released its second album in June! This truly extraordinary album features wrockers from eight different countries and singing in six different languages! Amy Snow, Solitary Snape, Ashley Hamel and many more worldwide wrockers make up this album—possibly the most diverse wizard rock comp ever released!

 

Holy. Hopping. Horned. Hippogriffs.

We have had SO MUCH mindbogglingly amazing music come out in the past six months that I almost can’t take it all! Thank all of you so much for reading this series, and I’ll see you again in another six months! Who knows what wonders the wizard rock community will have come up with by December? I certainly don’t, but I can tell you that I cannot WAIT to find out!

Wrock on!

P.S.! If you read all the way to the end, we’ve got a surprise for you! To celebrate the amazing creations of the wrock community in the past 6 months, we’re hosting a Bandcamp gift card giveaway! Just comment on any one of these 6-month round up posts and tell us one of your favorite releases or songs of the past 6 months. (One comment per person, please!) The winner will be announced on July 19! Happy listening and wrocking out!