Author: Russ
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Weekly Wrock Wrap Up!
Welcome to this week’s Wrock Wrap Up! Don’t forget to keep us updated on your Wrock news! General Wrockstock is BACK! The Wrockstock crew announced that registration for their upcoming event Wrockstock Reunited has now been opened. Check out the event’s Facebook page for more information. Is The Whomping Willows planning a new album? Matt’s…
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Help Get the Blibbering Humdingers to London for LeakyCon!
The Blibbering Humdingers, everyone’s number one choice of wizard rock bands that make them crap their pants, were excited and thrilled to be asked to perform at LeakyCon London. Once the awe of performing in the place that gave the world Harry Potter wore off, Scott and Kirsten really only had one thing on their…
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Album Review: Wizards and Muggles Rock For Social Justice Vol. 3
Wizard rock and charity compilations go together like Snape and greasy hair. Over the past 8 years, the wizard rock community has released dozens of EPs and albums to help raise money for various organizations. One of the first comps to come out was the original Wizards and Muggles Rock for Social Justice, and last…
alex boyd, bandcamp, big whompy, carpe geekdom, compilations, draco and the malfoys, hank green, harry and the potters, hawthorn & holly, jason anderson, justin finch-fletchley and the sugar quills, romilda vane and the chocolate cauldrons, siriusly hazza p, the blibbering humdingers, the harry potter alliance, the whomping willows, this star won’t go out, tianna and the cliffhangers, tonks and the aurors -
Updating Our Bands List!
One of the biggest and most used features of the Wizrocklopedia since it’s beginning has been the bands listing. New fans have used it to discover new music, and bands looking to book shows and tours have used it to find contact info for potential show partners. Now that the Wizrocklopedia’s been re-launched, one of…
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Muggle Music Monday- it’s a Fugazi!
On this week’s Muggle Music Monday, we’re going to take a look at a band who’s been highly influential on the entire wizard rock genre – FUGAZI! Fugazi was formed in the mid-1980’s by Ian MacKaye, former vocalist of the DC hardcore band Minor Threat. A few years after that influential group disbanded, Ian had…
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A tribute to a musical and recording pioneer
I’m sure many of us are familiar with Les Paul, the famous jazz guitarist who passed away earlier today. Much of our familiarity comes from his “signature model” guitar, made by Gibson. The Les Paul is one of the most distinctive electric guitars in today’s music (along with the Fender Stratocaster) and I bet many…
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Wrockin’ and Recordin’ – Interface Time!!
Our last installment helped cover a number of PC-based software packages you can use to help craft and create your awesome new music (be it wizard rock OR muggle). However, once you finished reading that installment and checking out some of the linked programs, you may have been wondering “But Russ, how do we get…
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Wrockin’ and Recordin’ – software fun!
In our last installment, we discussed the different ways you can record your music on your own; from here on out we’ll focus in on using your PC to get creative. And to do just that, you’ll need to get yourself an audio recording program. There are many VERY high quality programs out there that…
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Wrockin’ and Recordin’ Installment 1
First of all, thanks for the great feedback on last week’s intro installment! I really want this to be an interactive series of articles to help everyone, so by all means – if you have questions, or want to know about specific things, please let me know. I’ll work them in any way I can…
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So you wanna be a wrock ‘n roll band…
One of the things that I absolutely love about wizard rock is how diverse it is; within “wrock” you can have musical styles ranging from rock to rap to folk to chamber music to metal to pop to…. you name it! And a lot of the bands who are playing these varied styles of music…