Category: Archived Columns
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The 2021 Wizard Rock Six Month Report: July-December, Part 3!
OK, y’all. We are now entering the homestretch! This right here is the final part of the Wizrocklopedia’s Wizard Rock Six Month Report for July – December 2021! You can check out the other two parts here and here, and all the previous Six Month Reports right here! Now: as promised in the first part,…
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The 2021 Wizard Rock Six Month Report: July-December, Part 2!
Welcome back, folks! This right here is the 2nd part of the July-December 2021 Wizard Rock Six Month Report on the Wizrocklopedia! We’ve got another batch of incredible new releases and rereleases for you! Check out part one of the July-December edition here, and older installments right here! If we missed anything or made any…
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The 2021 Wizard Rock Six Month Report: July-December, Part 1!
Welcome, welcome, welcome, all you wizard rock people, to the July – December 2021 edition of the Wizard Rock Six Month Report!!! It has, of course, continued to be a banner year for wizard rock, with concerts, compilations, and community galore! As always, we’ll provide more complete stats on the number of releases in the…
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Into the Pensieve: Here at Wrockstock
A photo sits on my desk. Over the years, the desks have changed, the photo has not. A moment in time, Wrockstock 2009. More than just a memory. More than just a festival. I close my eyes. Feel the crisp Ozark air. The campfire nearby… The warmth of the flames sustains me. Wrockstock: wasn’t just…
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Into the Pensieve: The Days of Camelot Treasures
Many of you may have heard about the wizard rock scene at Camelot Treasures in Cary, NC. Having been at the center of that, let me see if I can re-live some of those memories for you… We opened Camelot in September of 2006. Kirsten and I had talked for many years about running a…
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Into the Pensieve: Lord Voldi and the Dark Marks’ Performance Nearly Shuts Down a Convention
This month, I am stepping in as a guest writer to tell you about a hard core rock-n-roll moment in wizard rock that happened at a convention in Ohio. Though 2009 was right in the prime of wizard rock, many outside the fandom, even those deeply involved in scifi and fantasy conventions, had never heard…
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Making Magic: The Wrock Show
Hello again! It’s been a while. Today Tina Olson (the artist formerly known as DJ Luna Lovegood) talks to us about what it takes to put together a wrock show. ~*~ Before we get onto highlighting some time-tested methods to bring together people of like-minds for a celebration of music and literature, we’ll have to…
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Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 17: The Man with Two Faces
Chapter 17, is the end of Book 1! Featured bands include: Eyes Like Mine, Harry and the Potters, Sea Turtle Harmonic, Gyantess, Lily and James, Alas Earwax!, the 8th Horcrux, Ollivander, The Veelas, The First Task Is Dragons, Miranda Puffskein, Riddle TM, Hollow Godric, Pogo, The Weirdos Are Out, and The Dumbledore’s Army Band Did I miss anything? Comment below…
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Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 16: Through the Trapdoor
Chapter 16, has Fluffy, Devil’s Snare, flying keys, troll, and life-sized wizard’s chess! Featured bands include: the Nifflers, Muggle Snuggle, Marked as His Equal, Roonil Wazlib, Riddle TM, Ollivander, Harry and the Potters, Kirstyn Hippe, and The Cruciatus Curse! Did I miss anything? Comment below and check out the ongoing feed on Wrock the Reread!
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Into the Pensieve: Wrock Wreggies (and Wrock Chicago)
This month, we are going back to 2008. 8/8/08 to be exact. That auspicious date marks the first Wrock Wreggies show in Chicago. It was one of the most memorable gigs for Swish and Flick, one which I fondly recall as the moment we’d “made it” in Wizard Rock.