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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.

IF YOU THINK PLAYING GOLF IS ALWAYS RELAXING, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY THINK AGAIN!

Forget gentle swings and polite claps, Ottawa’s MAJORS are here to tell you that the golf course can be a battleground. With their latest single “Etiquette”, the pop-punk-meets-metalcore five-piece...

A ROCK & ROLL PRAYER WRITTEN IN BLOOD AND BRIGHTON

THE SHIELDS.’ debut album Activation arrives like a thunderstorm held in a mason jar: raw, reflective, and deeply human. Rising from the quiet edges of personal tragedy and near-death,...

THE GETTING AWAY CAPTURED THE RIGHT WAY!

From a quiet Minneapolis basement comes a sonic ache that echoes across continents. John Deering’s “Gotta Get Away” Is a haunting, deeply personal vignette shaped by global tragedy and...

A PROUD LOSER IS HERE FOR A CHANGE!

At just 22, Joyce Tratnyek arrives not with a swagger, but with a self-aware smirk, and somehow, that’s even more powerful. Her new single, “Loser Like Me,” dares you...

A CINEMATIC INTERPRETATION TO EVERY STATE!

There’s an eerie grandeur pulsing at the heart of Forgiveness, the second full-length release by Minnesota-based multi-instrumentalist Blunt Blade. Equal parts theatrical and visceral, the album feels like a...

IN CLASSICAL MUSIC IT’S CALLED VARIATION – HERE, IT’S MEMORY AT PLAY, A COLLECTIVE MEMORY!

Tobin Mueller’s Fragments is a sonic memoir written in the language of jazz fusion, world rhythms, and reinterpretation. At first glance, its premise appears simple: musical fragments, echoes of...