Early January

Magic Key when they performed outdoors near Logan Square.
These are of Rebecca Scott the lead singer of Panda Riot.

This Thursday 5th January I'm aiming to see Magic Key play Hideout with Panda Riot. They seem to be at different ends of this faerie world I put them, individual relationships with it. They play a lot. I've seen them both at Empty Bottle and Whistler. They evolve faster than their CD output suggests. Recording costs money. So it's important to see them live. The organic machinery that can keep them going is still going to be the people that see them. P R is mid-tempo dream pop expresses sentiments one can only be felt in relaxed moments. You're gonna stop to take a breath to say you're happy just to exist. So their relaxed but do not just drift. They are the kind of shoegaze we dance to at Latebar. They play a lot locally. They just signed to a new small local label XD Records. Magic Key is dark, and serious as a heart attack dramatic. Keyboard driven dark and colorful and just as worthy of a goth-themed dance floor. They seem to have this heavy serious authority normally expected in classical music. Perhaps it may sound like I'm too much hyping this up, but it's rare to have something that normally just plays in your head suddenly share a real stage.