Category: Press
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Wizard Rock In TIME Once More
JK Rowling received “runner-up” status as TIME magazine’s Person of the Year this year and an in-depth article about the author has consequently been published! It covers a number of things including the series’ stance on tolerance, leading into mentions of wizard rock, like bands The Remus Lupins and The Moaning Myrtles, and the HP…
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99 Deatheaters Achieves Perfection…
All right, maybe that’s not exactly what the Onion’s AV Club wrote exactly, but they might as well have. The magazine recently published a list entitled “Let It Die: 23 Songs That Should Never Be Covered Again.” Our cherished “99 Deatheaters,” err, “99 Red Balloons” is number 14. Congratulations to Draco and the Malfoys. I…
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Wizard Rock Footage Amongst MTV’s Favorites
MTV has published a list of their “Best Music News of 2007“. Their wizard rock segment featuring footage from Phoenix Rising, a Harry and the Potters show in New York, and the Wizard Rockumentary’s music video for “Ode to Harry” were included, under the description “…our favorite footage of the year.” Also, the MTV website…
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MTV’s Top Ten Wizard Rock Bands
Despite having only been published this morning, a list of “Top Ten Wizard Rock Bands” made by MTV has already created a fair amount of controversy. Their list, which can be found here, consists almost exclusively of the bands they featured as a part of their Phoenix Rising coverage, an observation made by many, like…
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Wizard Rock and Wizrocklopedia Make Entertainment Weekly
up close Your Wizard Rock Photo of the Day, brought to you by bluerose726. JK Rowling is named “Entertainer of the Year” in the November 30th issue of Entertainment Weekly. Included in their article is a section entitled “What She Hath Wrought,” which mentions wizard rock as “A magical music genre. Check out the exhaustive…
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Terminus and Portus Interview Wrockers
Lena of The Butterbeer Experience answers some questions in the first installment of Terminus’ The North Star. Click here for a read! Meanwhile, Portus brings you the first episode of Portus Previews featuring an interview with Adam from The Mudbloods. The show can be subscribed to by visiting the news and updates page at Portus’s…
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Wrock in New Orlenas, Philly, and Toronto Papers
The Star, a Toronto paper, published an article about Harry Potter, the fandom, its future, and some of the events that transpired during Prophecy. Wizard rock is mentioned briefly toward the end of the article. You can read it here. We’ve also come across a couple articles published earlier this summer. The Times-Picayune, wrote about…
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Wizard Rock Is Being Televised
A number of news programs aired pieces on wizard rock bands this past week! The Parselmouths were featured on Evening Magazine, a local news show in the Pacific Northwest. The Remus Lupins also make an appearance in the segment, which can be watched online right here! Potter and the Lightning Bolts appeared on their local…
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Wizard Rocking All Over the Place!
The media coverage of wizard rock just doesn’t stop! Salon has published another article about wizard rock called “For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you.” NPR released a segment entitled “Wizard Rock: Harry Potter Goes Punk.” Norwalk’s CBS station’s contribution to wrock coverage goes by the name “Harry Potter Spawns New Musical…
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Wizard Rock Hits the Philadelphia Inquirer
“Wand, 2, 3, 4…” an article completely devoted to wizard rock hit the Philadelphia Inquirer Image section today. The Hungarian Horntails, the Moaning Myrtles, Harry and the Potters, the Whomping Willows, DJ Luna Lovegood, the Greybacks, the Marauders, Draco and the Malfoys, Cheap Rent the Wizards and Muggles Rock for Social Justice CD, and the…