Category: Archived Columns
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Why We Fight: Shauna Carrick
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Why We Fight series. I’ve asked some of our favorite wrockers from around the world to talk about what they’re feeling now that JK Rowling is openly transphobic. Please feel free to join the conversation in the comments, but do remember these are sensitive subjects and real people you’re…
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Into the Pensieve: The Making of the Hufflepride Video
Welcome to this month’s blast from the past! In my previous two posts, I shared some wizard rock memories that had been made in my home in Yonkers. In 2016, I bought a little Victorian house in Irvington New York, and began to make new wizard rock memories there. One really fun memory I have…
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Why We Fight: TK of Totally Knuts
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Why We Fight series. I’ve asked some of our favorite wrockers from around the world to talk about what they’re feeling now that JK Rowling is openly transphobic. Please feel free to join the conversation in the comments, but do remember these are sensitive subjects and real people you’re…
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Wrock Talk: Interview with Lauren Fairweather
There are quite a few musicians in our fandom who have been wrocking out for years and years, but Lauren Fairweather has been a part of the scene from almost its very inception! Rising to wizard rock fame as one half of the Moaning Myrtles (a band inspired by everyone’s favorite toilet ghost), Fairweather eventually…
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Why We Fight: Introduction
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Why We Fight series. I’ve asked some of our favorite wrockers from around the world to talk about what they’re feeling now that JK Rowling is openly transphobic. Please feel free to join the conversation in the comments, but do remember these are sensitive subjects and real people you’re…
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Making Magic: House Show How-To
Hello and welcome to the Making Magic series, where we’ve asked organizers of your favorite wrock shows to let us take a peek behind the curtain and show us how it all happens. This month we’ve got Michelle Brannon, who organizes legendary shows in the Northern Virginia area. ~*~
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Wrock Talk: Interview with Bruce Geller of Mirror of Erised
“And now for something [slightly] different.” For today’s Wrock Talk, I had the pleasure of chatting with Bruce Geller of the band Mirror of Erised, based out of Las Vegas. While still very much inspired by Harry Potter, Bruce’s music is a little bit different than your average wrock fare, for much of it is…
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Exploring the Swedish Scene: March 2021
Here is an update of what has happened in the Swedish Scene since the last update in December. Comp Club The first volume of the Wizrocklopedia Comilation Club, titled Back to the Beginning came out March 10th. It has 10 tracks of great new original wizard rock, and rounding out the album with track…
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Into the Pensieve: House Show at the Other Malfoy Manor, pt. 2
Last month, we went Into the Pensieve to remember house shows – concerts that people host at their homes. This month, we’re looking back at the second house show hosted at my apartment in Yonkers, NY. If my memory serves me correctly, that show may have been one of the first Witch Rock Series shows.…
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Wrock The Reread – The Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 14: Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
Chapter 14, has Hagrid revealing the first of many secrets, Norbert, and some dragon-saving wizards from Romania! Featured bands include: The Hermione Crookshanks Experience, Slytherin Soundtrack, Roonil Wazlib, Eyes Like Mine, Ollivander, the Mudbloods, and Tonks and the Aurors. Did I miss anything? Comment below and check out the ongoing feed on Wrock the Reread!