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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.

COMPOSURE MEETS COLLAPSE!

Kristoffer Ragnstam has spent years shaping music from multiple angles, guided more by the curiosity of an artist rather than by convention. That restless creative spirit fuels They Owe...

BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE!

Eighteen months in the studio is a long time, but Leather Laces put that time to good use. On Intercontinental Ballistic Music, the anonymous Italian industrial metal outfit emerges...

AN ODE TO MYSTERY, MOVEMENT, AND MODERN ROCK!

Grunge may have emerged from the 1990s, but YACOVELLI has little interest in preserving it behind glass. With “Since Emilia,” the New York-based band draws from the genre's familiar...

AN ENGAGING BLEND OF TECHNICAL SKILL AND RAW FEELING

Brian Hunsaker’s “Lie To You” has a story almost as compelling as the song itself. Tracked mostly in a car during lunch breaks while Hunsaker was adjusting to life...

BETWEEN DISTANCE AND DEVOTION..

We don’t always get songs that capture life’s contradictions as gracefully as “Patio Door” does. The release was written during a time of slow unraveling of a relationship, yet was...

AS WARM AS SUNSET SANDS AND AS COOL AS A SEA BREEZE!

Some places never fully leave us. Years go by, scenery shifts, and life steers us down new paths, yet certain sounds, images, and memories stay quietly stitched into who...