Category: Archived Features
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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…
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Watchout! There’s Ghosts this #MuggleMusicMonday
Note: Okay, so I just wrote out almost this entire post when my page decided to refresh itself and lose everything. So I apologize if some of what you read here is trite, boring, or forced. I swear it sounded great the first time ’round! You know what I absolutely love about #MuggleMusicMonday? It affords…
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Question Tuesday
Sorry this Question Tuesday is bit late this week. Without Lost to mark the day, I forgot it was Tuesday! The other reason I didn’t realize it was Tuesday was because, for most of us, it’s SUMMER! Time tends to run together in the summertime, so I thought talking about our wizard rock plans might…
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Muggle Music Monday with Ingrid Michaelson
Every June in Pittsburgh, we have the Three Rivers Arts Fest, 10 days of artists selling their wares, juried art exhibits, fair food, and free concerts. I spent Thursday night there, listening to Ingrid Michaelson. While her show wasn’t the greatest (with its forced banter and opening with a folk-y version of ‘Poker Face’) her…
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#MuggleMusicMonday says Stay Positive with The Hold Steady
If sing along songs are your scriptures, (and in wizard rock, what song isn’t a sing along song?) then the Hold Steady is a band that you should definitely spend some time with. There’s actually a fair chance you’ve already heard one of their songs, DatM‘s Brian Ross covers ‘Your Little Hoodrat Friend’ every once…
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Get Sweet this #WrockWednesday…
…with the Sweetwater All-Stars! Now this is a band that I have enjoyed getting to know over the past year. Not only does the band consist of a fantastic and extremely fun individual, but this self-same individual is currently writing her Master’s Thesis on Wizard Rock! Whaaaaaaat!? So entirely rad, am I right? I’m pretty…
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Rocking the Classics for #MuggleMusicMonday
For today’s triumphant return of #MuggleMusicMonday, I would like to send you all the way of Bonnie Tyler. Now, for those of you who were at LeakyCon with me, you may recall a specific song being played twice in a row at midnight hour on Mr. Carpenter’s birthday. That song, my friends, was ‘Total Eclipse…
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Creevey Thursday
While looking through the recent posts to the ‘pedia’s flickr page I came across this picture. It reminded me of why I got into Wizard Rock, and eventually, photography, in the first place. Major kudos to -eClair- for her great shots of The Hallows and Horcruxes Ball.
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Question Tuesday
Have you been reading The Wrock Snob? The Wrock Snob is a no-holds barred blog that reviews wizard rock with absolute honesty. The reviews seem to be mixed so far – from “this is too mean, I won’t read it” to “glad to see someone is saying these things”. But, here’s the kicker – it’s…