Hypeful About Harry Potter (and Wizard Rock!)

Jul 19, 07
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Hypeful About Harry Potter iPod Wizard Rock Collection

With the official release at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, excitement for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series, is massive. Perhaps nothing is more indicative of Potter Mania than the music genre it has given birth to - wizard rock. Using Hogwarts characters as inspiration and dealing with themes from J.K. Rowling’s popular series, the group Harry and the Potters are accredited with starting the genre five years ago. Since then, the number of wizard rockers has grown to approximately 180 and sites like The Wizrocklopedia and WizardRock.org are dedicated to following the artists and their shows (sometimes held at libraries) where muggles rock out.

As a tribute to the finale of the wizarding saga, Hypeful has collected 17 tracks (Harry’s age in Hallows) by wizard rockers to share with you. Load these tracks up on your muggle iPod and hopefully they’ll help keep your life spoiler-free while you wait to learn about the fate of The Boy Who Lived. Also, you may want to check out recent articles about wizard rock done by Salon and NPR.

MP3s:
Bella’s Love - “Angsty Wizard Summer”
Danny Dementor - “Where’s Your Hood At?”
Draco and the Malfoys - “My Dad is Rich”
Dumbledore’s Army - “Firebolt”
Harry and the Potters - “Song for the Death Eaters”
Hogwarts, A History - “Neville Neville Neville”
How Airplanes Fly - “Luna I Believe In You”
Ministry of Magic - “Snape vs. Snape”
The Moaning Myrtles - “Prefects Are Hot”
The Mudbloods - “Freedom is Just a Hippogriff Away”
The Parselmouths - “It’s Not Half Bad”
Potter and the Lightning Bolts - “Hogwartz”
The Remus Lupins - “Remember Cedric”
Tom Riddle and Friends - “Fleur, Mon Ami”
Weezard - “The Order”
The Whomping Willows - “Draco and Harry Secretly Want To Make Out”
Wyrd Sisters - “This Is The Night”

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9 Responses to “Hypeful About Harry Potter (and Wizard Rock!)”

  1. One-quarter Mudblood

    All of the files together are 66.6MB, bwahahahaa!!!

  2. [...] for Hypeful’s collection of Harry Potter wizard rock mp3s, including such hits as “Angsty Wizard Summer,” “Song for the Death [...]

  3. The song “This Is The Night” is by the Weird Sisters, not the Wyrd Sisters:

    http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difixqqdldhe
    “Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, who along with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway appeared in the film as a popular “non-muggle” rock band, contribute three tracks as the Weird Sisters — Canadian folk group the Wyrd Sisters attempted to file an injunction against the film, but were denied by a Winnipeg judge.”

  4. [...] Hypeful has come up with a bundle of mp3s from some of the bigger Wizard Rock acts: these are PMA’s picks br> [...]

  5. Great selection, though I expected to see “Hedwig’s Theme Rocked Out” by Advanced Potion Making among them!

  6. thank you so much for this, do you possibly have any more songs from the remus lupins?

  7. [...] on the heels of Harry Potter and “wizard rock“, Lost fandom is spinning-off its own genre of music best described as “recap [...]

  8. thanks alot ^_^
    I tired to find the Ministry of Magic - “Snape vs. Snape”
    and i couldn’t find it until now :D
    Again thanks alot :)

  9. [...] One word: nostalgia. Also, the Super Hero Rap genre sadly hasn’t caught fire like, oh say, Wizard Rock. C’mon, hip hop artists - surely you have better comics-inspired tracks than Vanilla Ice! [...]

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