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The Wrock Wreview: WZRD
The Album Album cover designed by Nixie Pixie. Today we are transported into the magical realm of wizard rock radio to tune in to a very special album by Ashley Hamel called WZRD. This incredible witch intersperses radio talk show conversation into the album, which is otherwise full of songs from the wizarding world. The…
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Archive Releases: Obliviate!
This Friday, the Wizrocklopedia presents our first official Archive Release album of 2021: the complete discography of Obliviate!! This band’s music has been out of print for far too long–enjoy! Wrock on, folks! Check it out at https://wizrocklopedia.bandcamp.com/album/forgetting-what-i-remembered-with-bonus-tracks Trans rights are human rights. Obliviate! rejects JK Rowling’s hateful ideology. Check out her current work at tamarafritz.bandcamp.com…
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Into the Pensieve: The Quidditch Witch Recording Sessions
For this installment of Into the Pensieve: Wrock in Retrospect, we are going back to 2009. That was the year that Swish and Flick recorded the album With Love and Poison for the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club.
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Kwikspell #6: Collaboration
January is always a busy month for me – I love working on new projects and kicking off the new year with a wildfire whiz-bang! This year, all of my new projects are collaborative. Rather than working on stuff on my own, I’m sharing my creative energies and my responsibilities with others, and it’s turning…
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Creevey Tuesday: Ashley Trix
Time for a tender on-stage moment! Whether you know her as Ashley Trix, Ashley Hamel, or Trix from Bella and le Strangers, you know this musician is a force to be reckoned with. Switching effortlessly between comedy jams and heartfelt folk songs, she always brings the audience along with her on the journey. You can…
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An Exhaustive List of Wizard Rock Livestreams in 2020
Hi! I’m usually over at Your Wizard Rock Resource, so I guess this post is a crossover event. Unless you’re fairly new, you’ve probably noticed the high volume of online wizard rock shows last year. So, I’ve decided to hop over to the Wizrocklopedia and do what I love best: organise and present information about…
abby ritter, alas earwax!, ariel factor birdoff, ashley hamel, creevey crisis, draco and the malfoys, flitwick and the charmers, geekbeatradio, ginny and the heartbreakers, grace kendall, gred and forge, hannah moroz, hawthorn & holly, how airplanes fly, justin finch-fletchley and the sugar quills, kalysta flame, karl-johan, kirstyn hippe, lauren fairweather, losing lara, ludo bagman and the trash, luna (not) lovegood, muggle mike, muggle snuggle, neville’s diary, percy and the prefects, pottörhead, pussycat dolores, romilda vane and the chocolate cauldrons, roonil wazlib, shauna carrick, siriusly hazza p, solitary snape, the arkadian, the blibbering humdingers, the butterbeer experience, the lovegoods, the mudbloods, the purebloods, the swedish shortsnouts, the whomping willows, thomas & finnigan, tianna and the cliffhangers, tonks and the aurors, totally knuts, toucan dubh -
Six Month Report Bandcamp gift card winner!
Folks! As you may have noticed if you read the July – December edition of the Wizrocklopedia’s Wizard Rock Six Month Report (see parts one, two & three!), we ran a contest for a $10 Bandcamp gift card to folks who commented on the posts with their favorite wizard rock releases of the last six…
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Wizard Rock: A Subject Heading
Wizard Rock is many things: music about Harry Potter, a source of unbridled happiness, the most amazing community I’ve ever been a part of, and a Library of Congress subject heading. That last one might sound pretty lackluster after the other three, but being an official subject heading is quite awesome.
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The Wrock Wreview: A Very Merry Bagmas 1-3
The Albums Today we’re going to review three wizard rock albums! Why? Because they’re all by the same artist, and they’re all Christmas-themed! Plus, this will be the last Christmas wizard rock album that I’ll be reviewing until December. These three wonderful Bagmas albums come to us from Ludo Bagman and the Trash. Ludo is a…
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An Introduction to the Filk Community for Wrockers, Part 3
Continued from part 2. We now come to the themes and topics of filk, which are wide-ranging, not surprising for a style of music that has been around for 60+ years. It started out with science fiction and fantasy, but quickly branched out to songs about space and science. Cats, fandom, and life in Mundania…