Category: Archived Columns
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Wrockin’ and Recordin’ – Interface Time!!
Our last installment helped cover a number of PC-based software packages you can use to help craft and create your awesome new music (be it wizard rock OR muggle). However, once you finished reading that installment and checking out some of the linked programs, you may have been wondering “But Russ, how do we get…
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Wrockin’ and Recordin’ – software fun!
In our last installment, we discussed the different ways you can record your music on your own; from here on out we’ll focus in on using your PC to get creative. And to do just that, you’ll need to get yourself an audio recording program. There are many VERY high quality programs out there that…
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Adventures in Wrock Part 2: The Gigs
Do you all remember how, a few weeks back, I posted that nifty column beginning to tell about my adventures in Europe and how it connected back to Wizard Rock? Well, I’m finally able to continue the mini-series after getting settled at my new job! Hurray! While more often than not, I will be describing…
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Wrockin’ and Recordin’ Installment 1
First of all, thanks for the great feedback on last week’s intro installment! I really want this to be an interactive series of articles to help everyone, so by all means – if you have questions, or want to know about specific things, please let me know. I’ll work them in any way I can…
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So you wanna be a wrock ‘n roll band…
One of the things that I absolutely love about wizard rock is how diverse it is; within “wrock” you can have musical styles ranging from rock to rap to folk to chamber music to metal to pop to…. you name it! And a lot of the bands who are playing these varied styles of music…
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Adventures in Wrock Pt. 1: The We of Wrock
Some of you may be aware by now that I spent the previous four months studying abroad. While living in Scotland for a semester abroad, I also managed to travel as often as possible. What surprised me more than anything else was how often I managed to bring up Wizard Rock when talking to perfect…
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Straight from the Dinah Saur’s Mouth Vol. 10
Vol. 10: The Life and Times of an Aspiring Wizard Rocker I apologize for the slight lateness of this volume. Computer issues + bad internet connectivity + living on the opposite side of the Earth as usual = slightly delayed volumes on occasion. As those following the Wizard Rock movement have noticed, the scene just…
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Straight from the Dinah Saur’s Mouth
In Which the Swedish Scene Takes on the Rest of the World Sweden isn’t exactly the largest country in the world, nor is it the most regularly thought of. To be perfectly honest, if someone had mentioned the words “Sweden” or “Swedish” to me more than a year ago, I would have taken a moment…
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Straight From the Dinah Saur’s Mouth Vol. 8
Vol. 8: Congratulations to Jon and the Omahens As a proud Hufflepuff, it is hardly surprising that I was drawn to a band named Sue and the Hufflepuffs. Jon Omahen, who is Sue and the Hufflepuffs, created the band as a tribute to Sue Upton of the Pottercast Fab Four. Sue is like to the…
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Straight From the Dinah Saur’s Mouth Vol. 7
Have You Heard These Bands? I know this is a little out of the areas in which I usually write, but I thought it would be a fun interlude between regular columns. I am in communication with a ton of international Wizard Rockers, but that story is taking longer than I planned, so I hope…
bella and the deatheaters, edgar & the family bones, ginger and moon, harry and the potters, letrix, oliver boyd and the remembralls, shrieking shack disco gang, the bandon banshees, the mighty patronus, the misuse of muggle artifacts office, the remus lupins, the weasel king, thestral, voldemort, weezard