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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.

HOLDING TENSION WITHOUT BREAKING FORM!

Not every debut feels the need to assert itself immediately. Chapter 1 takes a more measured approach, allowing its identity to emerge through structure, pacing, and control rather than...

ON THE ALCHEMY OF TURNING DISTANCE INTO PRESENCE

You don’t step into “Summer Magazine” by Citizen Smith, it meets you halfway. There’s no dramatic build, no attempt to pull you in. Instead, it arrives already in motion,...

AN ARCHIVE OF TENDER, UNPOLISHED TRUTHS

There’s a particular kind of listening that asks you not to seek perfection, but to sit with what is genuine and real. Daddy-Done: 2003–2009, the compilation release by Daddy-Doo...

AN ODE TO THE URGES WE DON’T ALWAYS NAME!

There’s a particular honesty in admitting the impulses we’re taught to suppress, and on Sometimes (i need to do something bad), Spyderhuff lean directly into that fragile terrain between...

LIKE A THOUGHT YOU CAN’T QUITE FINISH!

With Runaway Lane, Next Generation Voodoo invite you into a space that feels less like a linear journey and more like a slow, drifting loop of thought. From the...

A QUIET KIND OF HEARTBREAK

There are moments when emotion feels complete, but the language for it never quite arrives. In “You Don’t Know,” Jacob’s Cry steps directly into that space; not to resolve...