Monday Music

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Monday Mewzick: Underground albums to kick-start the school year

Peak Web November 8, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Correspondent for Rolling Stones As the new school year starts, the halls of SFU are hustling and bustling once again with every SFU student’s least favourite thing . . . other SFU students. Don’t you just hate nodding your head slightly to that one guy who was in your class three years ago? Or being forced to exert your facial muscles to smile at someone who doesn’t smile back?  This year, we say no to forced social interaction. We wish to pave a new holy trek through SFU that allows us to avoid all people. Let us…

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Monday Music: Songs for moving forward, healing, and letting go

Peak Web July 7, 2025

By: 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

Peak Web July 3, 2025

By: 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

Peak Web June 25, 2025

By: 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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A composite photo of Sabrina Carpenter holding a dog, a SkyTrain, a photo of Alanis Morissette singing, and someone’s feet.
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2025 song of the summer shortlist

Peak Web June 25, 2025

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer and Mason Mattu, Humour Editor It’s June, and the vibes are off. We’re in a climate apocalypse, the billionaires are feeling victimized, the aux cord is haunted, and we still don’t have a song of…

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Monday Music: Mythologies of the self

Peak Web June 15, 2025

By: 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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ILLUSTRATION: A person with headphones contemplating the various aspects of life, in a state of wonderment (but not sad).
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Monday Music: When soft weather brings hard feelings

Peak Web May 14, 2025

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Driving through X̱wáýx̱way (Stanley Park) this morning, I noticed something that jolted me out of my usual daze of cherry blossoms and sunkissed daydreams: trees, felled and fallen. The ones standing didn’t look much better,…

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Monday Music: Filipino music of the 2010s

Peak Web March 24, 2025

By: Dani Santos, Peak Associate “Ride Home” by Ben & Ben  In Ben & Ben’s 2017 single, the narrator goes on a morning drive to a place that reminds him of an important person in his life. The lyrics,…

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Monday music: Twee love songs

Peak Web February 10, 2025

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief  “P.U.N.K Girl” by Heavenly Twee was originally British slang for sweet to a “nauseating” degree. Heavenly was one of the bands who emerged in the ‘80s in opposition to the “increasing harshness in the post-punk…

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Monday Music: Original Pilipino Music (OPM) classics

Peak Web November 6, 2024

By: Dani Santos, SFU Student “Manila” by Hotdog International students can surely relate to the feeling of missing home, and “Manila” by Hotdog perfectly encapsulates this. Released in 1976, this Manila sound (a genre blending rock and roll, jazz, funk,…

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