Monday Music
Monday Music: An escape into the many lenses of shoegaze
May 18, 2026By: Nejdana Houshyar, SFU Student Shoegaze is defined as “melodic rock music typically characterized by heavily processed electric guitar and indistinct, often distant-sounding vocals.” Shoegaze works well because of the emotions — like sadness and melancholy — poured into the songs. These intense emotions are what listeners resonate with the most and what gave shoegaze its cult following. The genre peaked in the ‘90s with notable bands such as Slowdive, Lush, and My Bloody Valentine. This playlist is my choice of three songs, from the 1990s to the 2020s, that bring out those comforting, sad feelings. “2” by Dean Blunt…
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Monday Music: For the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year
March 23, 2026By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer The start of the year is an important time for most, often marked by reflecting on the past year and making new promises. However, for many cultures, January 1 is not traditionally seen as the…
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Monday Mewzick: Underground albums to kick-start the school year
November 8, 2025By: 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…
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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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2025 song of the summer shortlist
June 25, 2025By: 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
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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Monday Music: When soft weather brings hard feelings
May 14, 2025By: 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
March 24, 2025By: 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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