Tag: the whomping willows
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May 28th Pic of the Day
DSC_0064 Your Wizard Rock Photo of the Day, brought to you by laurenmyrtle. Lauren, of our Band of the Month The Moaning Myrtles, with a handful of other wrockers (The Parselmouths, Brian Malfoy, and Whompy) posing in their quidditch uniforms at Phoenix Rising! Check out more of our favorite wizard rock photos.
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House of Awesome Tour Blog #6
The nearly final installment of The Whomping Willows‘ tour blog is now online! In Entry #6 Matt tells us about the awesomeness that were the Here Be Books and Carteret Public Library wizard rock shows! “…the entire crowd of roughly 25 people was clueless about wizard rock. I asked how many people had been to…
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House of Awesome Tour Blog Entry #6
May 24, 2007 I inherited a bad habit from my mother: self-sabotage. When things are going well, I usually find a way to mess it up for myself. I left Summerville, SC last night feeling very good: I had a blast meeting the Here Be Books people, playing a show for a very small but…
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The Official Guide to Welcome to the House Of Awesome
This week’s installment of The Whomping Willows‘ weekly blog includes a guide to the songs found on the band’s new CD! Dubbed the Official Guide to Welcome to the House of Awesome, Matt has provided the stories behind each song on the album, such as “I Found A Loophole,” which is described as “…a continuation…
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Album Art Sneak Peak
The Whomping Willows gave the world a look at the cover art for the Wizards and Muggles Rock for Social Justice compilation album in their blog today! According to the blog, the art is “an almost final draft.” The album, which features songs from 22 bands, can be pre-ordered by visiting the Cheap Rent label’s…
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A Return to Normalcy
You may remember us reporting on a number of odd developments yesterday. Rosmerta’s Rockers and The Whomping Willows decided to change their band names, while The Parselmouths announced through a new song posted on their MySpace that they were switching from Slytherin to Gryffindor house. While neither Rosmerta’s Rockers or The Whomping Willows have retracted…
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More Wizard Rock Bands Making Changes
Rosmerta’s Rockers announced today that band member Ammie would rather be selling vegetables over wrocking out. Therefore, they have changed their band’s name to Rosmerta’s Radishes and will be selling that particular snappy veggie on their MySpace page. The Whomping Willows have also been inspired recently. Influenced by The Moaning Myrtles, Whompy has changed his…
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More Additions to Our WRock Avatars Gallery!
Eva has designed for us even more awesome userpic graphics featuring our Band of the Month, The Hungarian Horntails, as well as The Parselmouths, Draco and the Malfoys, The Whomping Willows, and Harry and the Potters. Give ’em a look.
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Welcome to the House of Awesome CD News
The Whomping Willows’ second album has been recorded, according to the band’s weekly blog update published today. The 11 track CD will be released in May. The same blog entry mentions the the addition of two more shows to the band’s summer schedule as well as progress in compiling a muggle/wizard rock CD and The…
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“Wizard Rock” by Matt Maggiacomo
The Whomping Willows front man wrote recently in his personal blog about the phenomenon dubbed wizard rock, his respect for the genre, and what it means to him. Among a variety of things he writes, “Wizard rock helped me realize that there’s nothing beautiful or romantic about being depressed. Rather than allow myself to fall…