Cherine Abulwafa

“Fake blood.” “Fake tears.” “Synthetic dross.” The language of “Fake” by Garbage Garden is deliberately accusatory, but the song refuses to remain on the defensive. Instead, every accusation becomes...

We’ve always loved a witch-hunt. Give a crowd a villain, a convincing story, and just enough outrage, and suddenly nobody remembers to ask whether the story was true. “Burn...

There is a particular paradox in becoming an experienced artist: the more one refines a musical language, the harder it can become to distinguish instinct from expertise. Years of...

An artist’s first album inevitably raises a question that has little to do with genre: who is this person when the influences, expectations, and previous versions of themselves fall...

For all the reputation that precedes Arlen Roth, Blues Grass is surprisingly uninterested in the mythology of the individual musician. The guitarist’s extraordinary career is audible in the precision...

Life rarely unfolds in neat chapters, and neither does Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One. On his debut release, Banbury-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Music by Jeremy...