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 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 [...]

This London three piece Komla call themselves “musical chameleons.” At first I had to wonder precisely what is meant by this: are the different colours that they take on with regard to tempo, genre, instrument? Or perhaps the change occurs in their audible tones or tempers? A listen to their tunes provides an answer, giving [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This was the debut year for Festival 6 in the magical Portmeirion, the setting of cult programme The Prisoner, the one with Patrick McGoohan, also played Danger Man. While relaying my obvious inner geek I must add that just to go to the place of where the TV show was shot was enough for me. [...]

Since its madder days, the Manchester music scene appears to have lost much of its buzz with London and Birmingham seemingly leading the way with a brief early naughties emergence in the North of the country. Stalagmites from Salford are bringing the scene back to where it should be with a post Oasis style that [...]

While listening to ‘Disastrochimp’, the new EP from Sheffield trio Great Deeds, I found myself racking my brains for a succinct way to sum up their sound. After much deliberation and scouring of the net, I came across the perfect phrase which would describe this band’s music, and I found it on this very bands [...]

I got to Band on the Wall and had a look round the room. There were a few people sitting at tables in front of the stage. Chatter of conversation was audible over a low droning ambience. Luke Murray and Simon Webbon were playing tracks on turntables. All sorts from cold ambient, gurgling acidic techno [...]

A small crowd part filled the Roadhouse basement. Gary Sloan was playing music to an empty dancefloor. It didn’t take long for people to start dancing. He played dark, discombobulated sounds. For a warm-up, the temperature was already set high. Throughout the night this would increase to a feverish intensity. Manchester based techno outfitters AnD [...]