Category: Archived Features
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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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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…
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Weekly Wrock Wrap Up
Welcome to this week’s Wrock Wrap Up! Don’t forget to keep us updated on your Wrock news! General Tonks and the Aurors have now put their “I Only Date…” t-shirt for sale online. It’s been one of this summer’s best selling wizard rock merch items! Songs Weasley Sweaters – Gryffindor Merrylin – The Love of…
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Flashback Friday – Split Seven Ways
For this week’s Wayback Machine visit, here’s a vid from our own Wizrocklopedia YouTube account featuring Split Seven Ways! Zoe is most likely still one of the most prolific wrockers, releasing a number of free albums from Split Seven Ways along with her side project, Pansy & The Gossip Queens as well as some muggle…
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Creevey Thursday
Harry and the Potters – New Cross Inn, London England – photo courtesy of lbrahim_D Pictures like this make me wish I could have afforded to go to Leaky Con London. As always, you can get your photos featured on the ‘Pedia by submitting your photos to the Wizrocklopedia flickr group. If you do not…
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Question Tuesday
For a little while there, wizard rock bands were rapidly signing up on MySpace not to show everyone their songs, but in order to quickly claim a good band name! The Potterverse theoretically has a finite amount of character names, locations, spells, etc. that could be used as part of a unique (and memorable) band…
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Weekly Wrock Wrap Up
Welcome to this week’s Wrock Wrap Up! Don’t forget to keep us updated on your Wrock news! General The band (formerly known as) Percy has changed their name to Percy and the Prefects to avoid confusion with other fandoms. Their website has also changed, and you can now find them on facebook. Songs The House…