Category: Columns
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The Wrock Wreview: Transfiguration: A Wrock Comp for Trans Rights
The Album Album artwork by Quintin Gell I am very excited to be reviewing Transfiguration: A Wrock Comp for Trans Rights today. I had the pleasure to be a part of it (my song is the first track on the comp!) and I love what our community came together to do. Organized by CG Matovina,…
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The Wrock Wreview: Songs of a Slytherin
The Band Album Artwork: Zoe Riches *It’s a Slytherin World is playing in Gamercat‘s headphones* Oh hey, didn’t see you there! I was busy rocking out to some amazing Slytherin music! Did you know that I’m 51% Ravenclaw and 49% Slytherin? I love being part of both of these Hogwarts Houses. Sssssssso, let’ssssss get to…
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Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 7: The Sorting Hat
Chapter 7, shows us the Sorting Ceremony and our first Hogwarts feast! Featured bands include: Tonks and the Aurors, Harry and the Potters, Ravenrock, RiddleTM, Ollivander, Seamus and the Finnigans, MuggleBorn, Hawthorn and Holly, The Gryffindor Common Room Rejects and the Mudbloods. Did I miss anything? Comment below and check out the ongoing feed on…
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Wrock Talk: Interview with Adam Dubberly of the Mudbloods
Nestled in the mystical land known as Austin, Texas, there exists one of wizard rock’s greatest treasures: The Mudbloods, fronted by Adam Dubberly. Whereas many wrock groups (e.g., Harry and the Potters, or Draco and the Malfoys) are often seen as musical relatives of oddball bands like They Might Be Giants or Ween, The Mudbloods…
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Into the Pensieve: NYC Wizard Rock Festival 2
Ten years have passed since the second NYC Wizard Rock Festival wrocked Brooklyn. For this installment of Into the Pensieve: Wrock in Retrospect, we’re looking back at how this festival was more epic than the first, which is saying a lot, because the first one was pretty darned epic. CW: Mention of Ministry of Magic.…
celestial warmbottom, diagon alley, draco and the malfoys, hawthorn & holly, justin finch-fletchley and the sugar quills, madam pince and the librarians, ministry of magic, nyc wizard rock festival 2, snidget, swish and flick, the blibbering humdingers, the cruciatus curse, the house of black, the remus lupins, the whomping willows, tonks and the aurors -
The Wrock Wreview: Floo Fighters EP
The Band Welcome back to another Wrock Wreview! This week, I’m reviewing an EP called Floo Fighters by Neville’s Diary. This EP has 6 songs and was released on October 18, 2020. Neville’s Diary hails from Indiana, and this EP is their first record in nine years. It is also the first to feature their live…
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Kwikspell #4: How To Keep Creating When It’s Hard
Making stuff is hard. In fact, when I sat down to write this month’s Kwikspell article, I had a really difficult time convincing myself to do it. I put it off for a few weeks, then wrote a few paragraphs while I was alone in the woods, and then my friendly neighborhood ‘Pedia editor helped…
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The Wrock Wreview: “You’re Just as Sane as We Are!”
The Band Happy Saturday, everyone! Our first review of November will be done by me – TK Lawrence of Totally Knuts. I’ve joined the team and taken over for Avery in the Wrock Wreviews, and I’m very excited to be here! This week, I’m reviewing “You’re Just as Sane as We Are!” by Luna Wants a Long…
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Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 6: The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
Chapter 6, brings Harry to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters and has us meet many of our favorite characters! Featured bands include: Roonil Wazlib, Harry and the Potters, RiddleTM, Ginny and the Weasleys, Gred and Forge, Ollivander, Draco and the Malfoys, Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons, Oliver Boyd and the Rememberalls, Tonks and the Aurors,…
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Wrock Talk: Interview with Steph Anderson of Tonks and the Aurors
It is not hyperbolic to say that one of the most important and influential contemporary wizard rock bands is Tonks and the Aurors, fronted by Steph Anderson—a musician who has rightfully earned the sobriquet “the Bruce Springsteen of wizard rock”! While Harry and the Potters are rightfully considered the popularizers of wizard rock, Tonks and…