Are you new to Wizard Rock? In this second installment in my “New to Wrock” series, I give you an artist who is also relatively new to Wizard Rock: Kirstyn Hippe. She is a 17-year-old singer-songwriter from Cincinatti, Ohio. At LeakyCon 2012 in Chicago, she won the first ever LeakyStars competition. As a prize for…
Harry and the Potters may be widely considered the originator of what we now call Wizard Rock (or Wrock for short). However, I have chosen a one-man band known as Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls for the first article in my “New to Wrock” series. I have already written an article about Ministry of Magic,…
I had been a fan of Ministry of Magic ever since I heard their song “Nothing to Fear” on The Leaky Cauldron’s Christmas release “Jingle Spells 3”. However, I hadn’t heard any more of their songs until I went to LeakyCon 2011 in Orlando, Florida in July. Hearing them live, I knew then that they…
I am determined to make this my last post about LeakyCon. After I finish this tonight, I’m going to take a break from the Internet (including all social media and my websites/blogs) for a while. I understand that my posts have been few and far between (but wordy) in the first place, but that’s because…