We Are Harry and the Potters

Hello friends!

Mark your calendars cause this summer we’re heading out on our biggest tour since 2007! Up the Libraries!

May 17 | Portland, ME | Portland Public Library
May 21 | Bar Harbor, ME | College of the Atlantic (moved from May 13)
May 25 | Rochester, NY | Phillis Wheatley Library
May 26 | Buffalo, NY | Sugar City
May 27 | Toronto, ON | TBA
May 28 | Ann Arbor, MI | the Neutral Zone (via Ann Arbor District Library)
May 29 | Pittsburgh, PA | Carnegie Library – Main Branch
May 30 | Cleveland, OH | Grog Shop
May 31 | Indianapolis, IN | Indianapolis Marion County Public Library – Central Library
June 1 | TBA
June 2 | St. Louis, MO | St. Louis Public Library – Buder Branch
June 3 | Fayetteville, AR | Fayetteville Public Library
June 4 | Dallas, TX | Dallas Public Library – Pleasant Grove Branch
June 5 | Houston, TX | Free Press Summerfest
June 6 | Austin, TX | Mohawk
June 7 | Roswell, NM | Roswell Public Library
June 8 | Tulsa, OK | Tulsa City-County Library – Hardesty Regional Library
June 9 | Santa Fe, NM | Warehouse 21
June 10 | Phoenix, AZ | Phoenix Public LIbrary – Central Library
June 11 | Tucson, AZ | Hotel Congress (sponored by Bookmans and the Tucson Public Library)
June 12 | San Diego, CA | Che Cafe
June 13 | Santa Ana, CA | Santa Ana Public Library
June 14 | Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles Public Library – Central Library
June 15 | Mission Viejo, CA | City of Mission Viejo Library
June 16 | SF Area | TBA
June 17 | San Francisco, CA | San Francisco Public Library – Main Library
June 18 | SF Area | Sunnyvale, CA
June 20 | Portland, OR | Multnomah Co. Library – North Portland Branch
June 21 | Portland, OR | Backspace
June 22 | Bellingham, WA | Mt. Baker Theatre (via Bellingham Public Library)
June 23 | Vancouver, BC | Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
June 24 | Seattle, WA | Seattle Public Library – Central Library
June 25 | Olympia, WA | Olympia Public Library
June 27 | Spokane, WA | A Club
June 28 | Missoula, MT | Missoula Public Library
June 29 | Salt Lake City, UT | Salt Lake City Public Library – Main Library
June 30 | Denver, CO | Denver Public Library – Central Library
July 1 | Boulder, CO | Boulder Public Library
July 2 | Omaha, NE | Omaha Public Library – W Dale Clark Main Library
July 3 | Kansas City, MO | Kansas City Public Library – Central Library
July 4 | Lawrence, KS | Replay Lounge
July 5 | Des Moines, IA | Des Moines Public Library – Central Library
July 6 | Minneapolis, MN | Triple Rock Social Club
July 7 | Chicago, Il | Lincoln Square
July 8 | Columbs, OH | Worthington Northwest Library
July 9 | Nashville, TN | Nashville Public Library – Main Library
July 10 | Atlanta, GA | Magnetic Theatre
July 11 | Orlando, FL | Orlando Public Library
July 12 | Clearwater, FL | Clearwater Public Library – Main Library
July 12 | Tampa, FL | Transitions Art Gallery
July 15 | Orlando, FL | LeakyCon 2011
July 17 | Gainesville, FL | Alachua Count Library District – Headquarters Library
July 18 | Durham, NC | Casbah (sponsored by the Durham Co. Library)
July 19 | Washington, DC | District of Columbia Public Library – MLK Central Library
July 28 | Chicopee, MA | Chicopee Public LIbrary
July 29 | Boston TBA
July 30 | Philadelphia, PA | Bookspace
July 31 | Brooklyn, NY | the Knitting Factory

We can’t wait to do this! These shows will be AWESOME!

MARK YR CALENDARS!!!!

See ya this summer!!!!

-paul and joe

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Friends,

Let there be no doubt about our enthusiasm for the holiday season. Between Yule Balls, holiday mix tapes, panettone consumption, and parties with family and friends, there is never a dull moment here in the DeGeorge household once December hits. Five years ago, our general love of the season led us to put together the very first wizard rock compilation, the holiday themed A Magical Christmas of Magic with Harry and the Potters and Wizardly Friends and Magical Singing Creatures. For the past few years we’ve also been contributing holiday songs to the Leaky Cauldron’s Jingle Spells series of seasonal delights. As we watched our catalog of holiday songs grow each year, we realized it was probably time to assemble some sort of collection of these works. So today we’re happy to present you with:

Tracklist:

1. Xmas Rulez, Voldemort Droolz
2. Livin’ in a Mirror
3. Christmas Shopping for Dobby
4. The Firebolt (2010)
5. The Yule Ball (2010)
6. Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
7. When Bellatrix Came Over for Christmas/What?!
8. Christmas at Hogwarts
9. Hedwig is Coming to Town (Snowy Owl)
10. The Enchanted Ceiling (Live at the Yule Ball 2007)
11. Yule Ball 2005 Cassette
12. Yule Ball 2006 Cassette

Track 1 first appeared on the Leaky Cauldon’s “Jingle Spells” (2007) and was mixed by Dan Brennan.
Track 3 first appeared on the Leaky Cauldon’s “Jingle Spells 3″ (2009)
Tracks 4 and 5 are songs that originally appeared on our first album (S/T, 2003), but these are new recordings that we made in 2010.
Tracks 6 and 8 first appeared on our own, self-released “A Magical Christmas of Magic” CD (2005)
Track 7 first appeared on the Leaky Cauldon’s “Jingle Spells 4″ (2010)
Track 9 first appeared on the Leaky Cauldon’s “Jingle Spells 2″ (2008)

To quickly sum up, half of these songs are basically NEW and the other half have been on other compilations at some point over the past 5 years. Now they are all collected in a handy holiday package so you can spend your Christmas morning with a full 48 consecutive minutes of Harry and the Potters holiday insanity.

Here’s a little preview of my favorite new track from the album:

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Livin’ in a Mirror

This album is a digital-release ONLY.

It is available for purchase at iTunes ($10) and at our Bandcamp page ($8).

But with us being lovers of both music and awesome things in general, we wanted to do a bit more than just throw a few tracks up on iTunes and call it a day. So we’re happy to couple this fine digital album with a limited release of Harry and the Potters Holiday Ornaments!

This is actually the culmination of an idea 5 years in the making. Back when we first released A Magical Christmas of Magic we really wanted to make some ornaments to go with it. We even had our friend Dave Roman put together some designs that matched the cover art he did for the album. At the time, we didn’t have a very good grasp of ornament-making technologies, so we were never able to get that part of the project off the ground. Until now!

Using the magic of heat-sensitive polystyrene plastic, a technology developed in the 70′s and popularized in the 80′s by the Shrinky Dinks brand, we are offering a very limited number of hand-crafted Harry and the Potters Christmas Ornaments. The ornaments come in sets of three: Harry Year 4, Harry Year 7 and a rad Candy Cane Lightning Bolt. These are painstakingly made, by us, in our parent’s kitchen. We are planning on making 100 sets of ornaments. Each set comes with a download of our brand new Wizardly Christmas of Wizardry album. We are charging $15 for the ornament/download combo.

We will have these sets for sale at our upcoming Yule Balls and they are currently on sale in our awesome online store.

When you purchase the ornaments online, we’ll send you the download code for the album within 24 hours so you can start blasting those xmas tunes ASAP.

Thanks so much! We’re really pumped about this release! We hope you have an excellent holiday!

See you at the Yule Balls,
Paul and Joe
Harry and the Potters

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Hello friends,

Clearly the holidays are one of our favorite times of year hear at Harry and the Potters HQ. If you follow us closely, you know that every year I like to make a holiday mix of music for friends and lately I’ve been sharing that with the world via the magic of the internet!

I made this year’s mix as an actual cassette tape. If you want to learn more and snag a copy or get an mp3 of the cassette rip, then check out the facebook group I made for my holiday mixes. You can also use it to snag downloads of mixes from previous years.

Download the 2010 Holiday mix here (zip file, 180MB):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YS1H06Y2

Side A

1. The Boy Least Likely To – A Happy Christmas Baby
2. Little Isidore – Party Hard
3. Shock and Awe – XMS PRTY
4. Cheap Trick – Come on Christmas
5. Coconut Records – It’s Christmas
6. the Mynabirds – All I Want is Truth (for Christmas)
7. Bobby Baby – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
8. The Sonics – Santa Clause
9. The Wave Pictures – I Love You Like a Madman
10. Debbie and the Darnells – Santa, Teach Me to Dance
11. Elton John – Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas)
12. Hefner – The Little Baby Hefner’s Xmas Song for Holland
13. Aunt Beru & the Juicers – Santa Brings It
14. Bryan Adams – Reggae Christmas
15. Bears – Merry Christmas Have a Happy New Year

Side B

16. Bruce Springsteen – Pilgrim in the Temple of Love (Brixton 4.26.96)
17. John Legend and Steven Colbert – Nutmeg
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – All I Want for Christmas
19. Audiotransparent – December Radio
20. Bicentennial Bear – All I Want for Christmas (is an Afghan Whigs Reunion)
21. Low – Santa’s Coming Over
22. The Raveonettes – Come On Santa
23. The Darkness – Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)
24. The Fake Swears – We Didn’t Start the Yule Log
25. Featuring Santatron 3000 – “I Accidentally Slept Through Christmas”
26. Hands and Knees – James Brown Died on Christmas Day
27. James Brown – Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year
28. Space Ghost – We Wish You a Merry Christmas

BLAST IT and HAVE AN AWESOME HOLIDAY.

Also, support these bands by buying their records and stuff.

SEE YOU AT THE YULE BALL!
paul

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Ladies and gents!

Joe DeGeorge, of this very band, has proudly released his first comic book!

It is entitled Good Luck: Issue #1.

It is inspired by one of our favorite bands, Good Luck, detailing their fantastic adventures through time and space.

The first issue is a 36 page fun filled, joke lined, action packed comic.

These are $4.00 each! Please buy! He spent a million years working on this.

You can purchase Good Luck: Issue #1 in our little old webstore!

Copies are also available in person at That’s Entertainment in Worcester, MA and Desert Island in Brooklyn, NY.

36 FUN FILLED PAGES IN THE FULL ISSUE!!!!!

For a teaser of the first few pages from the book, check out Joe’s blog.

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