Category: Columns
-
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.
-
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…
-
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…
-
Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 10: Hallowe’en
Chapter 10, has A TROLL! IN THE DUNGEONS! thought you ought to know. Featured bands include: Sea Turtle Harmonic, The First Task Is Dragons, Marked As His Equal, Seen and Unforeseen, Stephanie and the Quaffles, Slytherin Soundtrack, Ollivander, Anvil and the Hints, and Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills! Did I miss anything? Comment below…
-
The 2020 Wizard Rock Six Month Report: July-December, Part 3!
Welcome, welcome, one and all, to the third and final part of the Wizrocklopedia’s Wizard Rock Six Month Report for July – December, 2020! Check out parts one and two as well for even more releases. It’s been an outstanding six months for wizard rock and I’m so happy to have had you along on…
-
The Wrock Wreview: Voldis knorke XMESS Banger
The Album Album cover designed by Benjamin Kantschieder. Happy New Year everyone! We’re going to kick off 2021 with a little “Xmess” spirit. Voldi & the Morts released this album on December 24, 2020. This two-person wrock band comes to us all the way from Vienna, Austria, with Anne Thyr in charge of lyrics and…
-
The 2020 Wizard Rock Six Month Report: July-December, Part 2!
Welcome, once again, to the July-December edition of the Wizrocklopedia’s Wizard Rock Six Month Report! This is part two of the report. You can check out the first part right here and the third part here! Be sure to comment your favorite releases below! So—without further ado, let’s jump right back in and pick back…
-
The Wrock Wreview: Bludgers and Broomsticks
The Album Originally released on April 3, 2007, Bludgers and Broomsticks by The Quaffle Kids was rereleased on the Wizrocklopedia on December 4, 2020. Hailing from Edwardsburg, MI, The Quaffle Kids don their Gryffindor uniforms to play music mostly from Harry’s point of view. There are 11 songs on this album, so let’s check it…
-
Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 9: The Midnight Duel
Chapter 9, has a secret duel, a trapdoor, and a three-headed dog! Featured bands include: the Sweetwater All Stars, the Parselmouths, Eyes Like Mine, Slytherin Soundtrack, the Draco and the Malfoys, Defense Against the Dark Marks, The Basilisk In Your Pasta, Ollivander, and Harry and the Potters! Did I miss anything? Comment below and check…
-
The 2020 Wizard Rock Six Month Report: July-December, Part 1!
Welcome, fellow wizard rock nerds, to the Wizard Rock Six Month Report™ for July to December, 2020! Twice a year, I compile this chronological list and review-in-brief of all the awesome wizard rock music that has been released or rereleased in the past six months of the year. And hopping hippogriffs, what a six months…