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So Matt, aka The Whomping Willows, just posted a bummer of a blog post over at his myspace page. It seems that sometime Saturday night the van that he’s sharing with The Remus Lupins while he tours with them, was broken into.
The full post can be found here.
Matt says that while he’s escaped the [...]

So I ventured out today for my first taste of Wizard Rock in the flesh. I’ve heard from a few people who have expressed trepidation at the idea of going to a show where the crowd would be mostly kids. And not the typical punk/indie types that end up at all ages shows, [...]

So I’m not sure what is up exactly, but I’ve been poking around the Wizard Rock world lately and I’m finding even more to love about this scene. I’m not sure if I’m just in a better mind set to appreciate it all or the quality of the recordings/work has increased by such a [...]

So I’m trying to clean out my bloglines account of all the various posts that I’ve saved for later. I did an initial hack and slash earlier today and got rid of most of it, but I saved a couple of posts that I really wanted to mention, so here they are,
First up, we [...]

I think I’ve mentioned the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club before. $50 for 12 CD EPs delivered in 6 shipments, one every other month. Each disk featuring a different Wizard Rock band. Proceeds are being donated to the literacy charity First Book.
Well, the June shipment arrived a little while ago [...]

So OK, let’s do some math here (not really)
Back in March of this year Lev over at Time Magazine mentions the Remus Lupins in a short article on the Potter franchise (*cough*my fault*cough*). Two months later, MTV suddenly appears out of the blue and does a short news piece on WR. Is it [...]

So the fine folks over at Wizardrock.org were the first ones to break the story last month when they posted the comment,
If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be from MTV, they are actually from MTV and are planning on doing a segment on Wizard Rock for MTV news.
Now though comes the pay [...]

So Courtney continues to define my music collection. This one has a little something for the Wrock fans though, kinda.
The artist in question is Jenny Jenkins. The link will take you to her myspace page where you can check out a couple tracks from her. The songs are her with a ukulele. [...]

Matt from The Whomping Willow is running a charity auction for First Book.
The winner of the auction receives the following goodies,

*original drafts of song lyrics for the entire Welcome to the House of Awesome! record, including failed attempts at songs that may never get beyond the brainstorming process
*original drafts of all my brainstorming notes
*a CD [...]

OK, show of hands. How many of you own One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found?
*shakes head*
As you may be able to guess from the title, this is a four disc box set of singles from various 60s girl groups. And it is simply amazing in every way [...]