Peg Kerr's Journal

I've had less wizard rock news lately, since MySpace (curses be upon them) have ceased offering music for free download.

Still, there are bits of news now and then: Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls is offering a couple of his songs for free download at his website. Download ‘In Your Shadow’ and ‘There By My Side’ by following the directions in his blog post.

Gred and Forge’s new album PitchesWitchesRiches will be released April 1st (Fred and George's birthday--how appropriate!), and is available for pre-order starting tomorrow. Check out his latest blog for details. (I really enjoyed his album Half the Band I Used to Be Listen to "Ginny Gets Around" at that MySpace page to hear a sample of one of the girls' favorite songs.)

I'm also keeping an eye on The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office Myspace page, as they should be releasing their album Hocus Pocus Opus soon. I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Ministry of Magic fans, check out their cover of Ministry of Magic's Snape vs. Snape/The Bravest Man I Ever Knew, which will be on this new release. I'm looking forward to this one.

As always, humor me and please comment if you listen and like.

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I think I may have mentioned British group The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office previously. I like their "Lily's Green Eyes" (which is downloadable, if you have a MySpace account) and I REALLY like "Occlumency Lessons," which, alas, is not. I'm keeping an eye on them, hoping they'll come out with an album before long.

They have just uploaded a new one, "The Veil," which is not a song, per se, but more like ambient music, rather like The Mirror of Erised does. The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office asked their friends list to give them their favorite lines by Sirius, and they then overdubbed those lines into whispers, running softly under the music. Although "The Veil" is not downloadable, they have put up another track which is, of just those whispering lines of Sirius ("The Veil the Vocals") which, the accompanying blog entry says will only be downloadable for a short time, and it will not be on the album. I liked it and downloaded it; haunting.