THE PLAYGROUND have just launched their festival for 2013 bringing together a long list of forward thinking producers and artists including the likes of DIGITALISM, GARY NUMAN, [UNKLE] James Lavelle, BOOKA SHADE, JAMES ZABIELA, MODEL 500, DERRICK MAY, KEVIN SAUNDERSON, PANTHA DU PRINCE + many more. And us at Quenched Music are going to be [...]

The Blackburn based band Sky Valley Mistress play the Blues with the attitude of Rock n roll. The bands EP ‘The best thing you’ve never heard’ which includes four tracks of Bluesy passion is very promising indeed. Now, in this day and age people are not that bright. They are how can I put this…thick [...]

The Navigation is five tracks of nautical themed electro-pop from the lovely MAUD, who is based in London. She sings over music written by Philippe Locke. He uses synthesizers in addition to guitars and piano. The music is kinky and casual, combining bright sounds and heartfelt vocals. On some tracks her voice sounds similar to [...]

Powers That Be is a new project from Tom Beecham, a New Yorker previously associated with Seattle based band The Raggedy Anns. The eponymous debut work is four tracks of mellow Indie Rock with acoustic / country undertones. Guitars, piano and drums complement a grungy, laid back sound. Accompanied by a demure backing vocal, Beecham [...]

Hailing from Dublin, Little Green Cars make their way across the Irish Sea for their first UK headline tour. Accompanied by fellow Dubliners Gypsies On The Autobahn, everything was set for a enthralling experience. The show was sold out, yet the room was slightly empty initially. As the minutes passed by more people would trickle [...]

Hidden down a back alley in the depths of the Northern Quarter in the former squat know to many as Kraak Gallery I stood with a crowd of merely 20 people waiting patiently to see East India Youth aka William Doyle. If you haven’t heard of East India Youth don’t be dismayed as material only [...]

Four Demons is an EP of superstitious caterwauling from Ruby Tingle, a beautiful garden variety witch who has created an artistic outlet for her strange intentions. She makes handmade collages, sculptures and puppets of animals and humans in unusual scenes. These lean towards her macabre fascinations. Peruse her artwork; it exhibits a grotesque and vaudevillian [...]

When a new release from a band lands in my inbox, I usually like to have a good dig around. Well, a 10 minute Google at least. Long enough usually to unearth a Facebook or Souncloud account, maybe even a defunct Myspace page with some pictures of the bass player before he lost all that [...]

The night was a symbiosis between man, machine and music. The Narrows carved a noisy electro rut, using computer hardware to provide rhythm and synthesis. The man on the keyboard was controlling drums and some synthesizer patches. I spent a portion of their set trying to locate the fourth man they appeared to be using. [...]

Live: Band of Skulls@ HMV Ritz-5th December 2012 After the release of their second album Sweet Sour in February 2012, Band of Skulls have been touring extensively across the globe. This time it was Manchester’s turn to feel their rumbling desert-rock riffs. First up was Manchester locals Folks which quite frankly seemed like a bit [...]