THE MAGIC CITY

Adam Anderson | Lead, Rhythm Guitars
David Jackel | Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Ken Marcou | Drums
Mike Quinn | Bass, Vocals

The Magic City is escapism in music. The Allston, Massachusetts modern rock band takes its moniker from an imagined convergence of Boston and London, and its sound echoes the spirit, style, and vitality of both cities. The debut single, “Roadrunner Vs. Your Mother,” arrived in November 2023, followed shortly after by “A Series of Chemicals.” Each serves as a tone-setter and seductive invitation to what’s to come in 2024. The Magic City consists of Adam Anderson, David Jackel, Ken Marcou, and Mike Quinn, who hail from Arlington, Newton, Framingham, and Medford. The foursome first assembled in 2022 over a shared love of Britpop, post-punk, classic alternative, glam, goth, UK indie and the other sounds that raised us. With this new project, the quartet has taken pieces of its past and their other affiliated projects – The Daily Pravda (Rumble ’13), Reverse (Rumble ’03), The Daylilies (Rumble ’19), Graveyard of the Atlantic (Rumble ’23), and others – and crafted something that feels fresh and new without ever losing sight of how we got here in the first place. Part of that is never allowing the listener to get too comfortable. As the great Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”