Music
“Changeling” celebrates queer neurodiverse whimsy
November 11, 2025By: Rachael Quak, SFU Student Local indie-pop artists Stanza Lune (Alex Masse) and Sunny Daydream Chen have teamed up for their new single “Changeling.” This song conjures a fantasy land soundtracked by sparkly synths and soft beats in my mind. “We don’t need your white picket approval / cause life in the woods is wonderful / flora and the fauna don’t misgender me / find us in the twilight dancing…
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Monday Music: Anything but indifference
November 8, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer “Carry the pieces” by Small Forward A steady beat with an influx of texture catches the ear just right and beckons the listener forward. “Carry the pieces” gently reminds us of an everlasting, sometimes all…
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SHOWSTORM: An interview with Etchos
August 6, 2025By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer On August 6, Vancouver-based Filipino artist Etchos will debut SHOWSTORM at the Vancouver Black Library, accompanied by Couch Jams. The project is a live multimedia performance of Etchos’ new extended play (EP), performed alongside a…
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Vancouver punk’s role in creating community in an introvert’s city
July 29, 2025By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate When spending time in Vancouver’s public spaces, I notice it is common practice to avoid eye contact. Instead of engaging in other people’s lives, we tend to stay focused on our own. I used to…
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We are the folk: the 48th Vancouver Folk Music Festival returns to Jericho Beach
July 17, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer From July 18–20, the salt-kissed shores of ʔəy̓alməxʷ / Iy̓ál̓mexw (Jericho Beach Park) will become a living, breathing experiment in togetherness — a place where folk music exists not merely as a genre but as…
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Tenise Marie’s upcoming album Off The Record contains multitudes
July 9, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Tenise Marie, a BC singer-songwriter of Assyrian, French, and British descent, is set to release her newest album, Off the Record, on July 11. I listened to an advance recording of her songs and found…
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Monday Music: Songs for moving forward, healing, and letting go
July 7, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer “19” by La Reezy “I told my older self to let me go.” With infectiously uplifting beats and vocals, La Reezy raps on what it means to become the person you want to be. Layered…
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Monday Music: Songs to aid your astral journey
July 3, 2025By: Katie Walkley, SFU Student Doing nothing should be considered as a human need just as important as eating or sleeping. To ease you into a camaraderie with your mind through the art of staring off into space, I have…
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Monday Music: A reminder that time is lived in every direction, at every speed
June 25, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer A car comes and goes, the present nestled somewhere between those four wheels. The past lingers in the air like dust on the dirt road. The future is still miles away, or perhaps it has…
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Monday Music: Mythologies of the self
June 15, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Staff Writer There is a strange beauty in the in-between. We often resist it — when life doesn’t offer clear beginnings or endings, where you are neither who you were nor who you will be. But as…
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