Author: Russ
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Flashback Friday – Thestral
Sectumsempra from Thestral on Myspace. That’s right, for this week’s Flashback Friday, it’s wizard rock’s original thrash metal band, Thestral! Thestral only has three songs up on their MySpace page at this point, and no other place to listen to their fantastic 80’s metal inspired wrock songs. They were quite active from 2006 until around…
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Wrock Wednesday – “The Doe” by A Singing Detective
This beautiful little ditty started making it’s way around Tumblr a few days ago, and it’s just too brilliant not to share. I think it’s safe to say that nearly everyone is a sucker for a Snape/Lily song, and this one doesn’t disappoint. A Singing Detective has been writing songs about plenty of other…
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Question Tuesday – The New Movies
As we talked about on Saturday, the new series of movies beginning with “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will be the first “official” new material in the Potterverse since the release of Deathly Hallows, and some of JKR’s statements afterwards. It’s going to be an exciting leadup to the premier of the first…
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Will A New Movie Inspire New Wizard Rock?
In news that sent the Internet into spastic fits of pure joy, JK Rowling announced that she’ll be screenwriting a series of new Harry Potter movies based around “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them”, one of her offshoot books (along with “Quidditch Through The Ages” and “The Tales of Beedle The Bard”). Not only…
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Flashback Friday – How Airplanes Fly
This week’s Flashback Friday features the incomparable How Airplanes Fly!! Some recent posts on Tumblr had me over at Abril’s old YouTube channel listening to the few videos that are there. Unfortunately I lost her music a few years back, and aside from MySpace, there’s no place else to listen to her songs. So head…
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Wrock Wednesday – Tianna and the Cliffhangers “Out Of Character”
Tianna and the Cliffhangers earlier this week released their new album, “Out of Character” on their Bandcamp page! “Out of Character” features 15 songs for $10. The songs themselves are a combination of wizard rock songs mixed in with tunes about Lord of the Rings, along with a few songs of a muggle nature.…
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Question Tuesday
There have been plenty of wrock songs that have covered or mentioned nearly every character, and situation, in the Potter books. Sometimes certain plot elements were used numerous times by bands as inspiration – Chapter 34, or the Final Battle, for instance. So let’s take this Tuesday’s question in the complete opposite direction: What’s your…
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MC Kreacher Needs Our Help!
Image from Andrew Warren’s Flickr page Wizard rock fans know MC Kreacher for his sick rhymes, fast flow, and his fantastic EP “Alone in the Dark“. Wrock fans also know he was one of the creative minds behind the wonderful documentary “We Are Wizards“. What many wizard rock fans don’t know about MC Kreacher is…
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Flashback Friday – Afraid for the future of Pop?
This week’s Flashback Friday is a bit different that what we’ve previously been featuring – rather than posting a video from a band, we’re going to post this July 2007 article about wizard rock from The Guardian newspaper in the UK. The article, which is a bit tongue in cheek, discusses the rapid growth of…
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Question Tuesday
I have to thank my kids for this week’s Question Tuesday inspiration! While pondering different topics I could bring up, both of them starting moaning about how they had to go back to school in just 2 days. Naturally, this led to my idea to ask all of you: What’s your favorite wizard rock song…