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Go West, Young Wizards!
Go West, Young Wizards is the summer wizard rock tour featuring Kirstyn Hippe (winner of the 2012 LeakyStars competition!), Justin Finch-Fletchley (pizza king), and Steph Anderson (everyone’s favorite rocking metamorphmagus). They are funding their tour through a kickstarter campaign of the same name. Scheduled around LeakyCon Portland, the trio are heading out on an epic…
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Creevey’s Creevey Thursday
“…the things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” Luna Lovegood The ‘pedia was never intended to be lost. It was meant (at the very least!) to stand as a testament to everything the fandom did. I won’t bore you with…
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Question Tuesday
This week’s question isn’t exactly a wizard rock question, but it is Harry Potter related. Awhile back, Joshua Herdman (Crabbe) made the claim that Deathly Hallows will be split right after Harry, Ron, and Hermione are grabbed by the Snatchers. David Yates has said he had “three or four different ideas” about where the break…
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Gothic Archies
Wouldn’t it be neat if JK Rowling was a musician that collaborated with a wizard rock band? Wouldn’t it be even neater if she played the accordion? Well fans of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events get just that via Daniel Handler’s participation in the Gothic Archies.
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HPA FTW!
Dear friends, Five years ago a sweaty dude named Andrew Slack came to one of our shows with an idea would profoundly change the way Harry Potter fans could interact with the magical world created by JK Rowling. No, he wasn’t proposing a theme park. Instead, he wanted to take a cue from the books…
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Question Creevey!
We’ve got your Question Tuesday and Creevey Thursday all rolled into one this week! Tianna of I Speak Tree performing in Pittsburgh. photo by pretenditious
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Creevey Thursday
Infinitus is getting close! More summer tour shows! New albums! Wizard rock is everywhere! See you at the shows, and make sure to send your photos to the Wizrocklopedia flickr feed.
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Question Tuesday
I’m not actually going to Infinitus, but all the anticipatory buzz is making me very excited for everyone who is! So, this week I ask: What’s your favorite thing about cons? Getting to see lots of wizard rock? Barely eating/sleeping for 3 days? Falling asleep with your best fandom friends right next to you? I…
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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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Question Tuesday
The HPA is participating in the Chase Challenge on Facebook for a chance to win $250,000. (Details on how to vote are below.) What causes would you like this money to help, if (when?) the HPA wins? I know we all have causes near to our heart, but I also believe in timeliness. At the…