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Cherine Abulwafa

From rock and metal to musicals and classics, and everything in between! A musician and a writer who has a passion for the brilliance of arts and the magnificence of culture.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF COLLAPSE!

There is nothing particularly gentle about being introduced to WHOLES’ “Berlin.” The guitars scrape, the bass pushes forward, the drums refuse to sit still, and somewhere in the middle...

THE COSMIC AND THE INTIMATE!

Where is this going? The Graceland Conspiracy seem perfectly comfortable not knowing. On We Are Chaos, their debut single, the Belfast collective resists the instinct to make every musical...

CAN LOVE ACTUALLY EXIST WITHOUT CONNECTION?

“Tell me that it’s real / I want to feel!” It’s a simple plea, but Rosso Tierney’s “Feel” builds an entire rock song around its uncertainty. The York artist’s latest...

NOTHING EXISTS IN ISOLATION!

What makes a work more than the sum of its parts? For PROJECT: Beyond, the answer seems to lie in everything surrounding it: the people, experiences, limitations and relationships...

RAISING A GLASS TO THE GOOD LIFE!

You can probably guess what kind of song “Hillbilly White Wine” by Pistol Whip The Devil is going to be before the first guitar even kicks in. The title...

FIFTY YEARS IN THE MAKING!

It took more than fifty years for Teanko’s “Can You Recognize Me” to become the song it was always meant to be. The track began as a childhood collaboration...