Monday Music
Monday Music: Trip-hop, a genre that transcends decades
November 2, 2026Trip-hop is a musical genre that blends hip-hop with electronica, often taking influences from jazz, techno, and blues. The vocals are soft and sensual while the ambience is moody, funky, and feels like a gritty, sexy 1990s film. Trip-hop fuses with a plethora of other genres, such as dream-pop, shoegaze, and alternative, making it a highly abstract genre. The 1990s are marked as the pinnacle of trip-hop, with popular band Massive Attack being considered the “genesis point of the trip-hop movement,” according to Insomniac. The genre slowly trickled out of the mainstream once the world entered a new millennium; however,…
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Monday Music: A Throwback to 2000s Pop-punk
September 7, 2026Pop-punk is a subgenre of rock music that combines elements of punk rock and pop, taking the electric energy of punk rock with pop’s hooks and melodies. With big-name artists like Fall Out Boy, Sum 41, My Chemical Romance, Paramore,…
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Video game soundtracks that capture the soul of a game
July 19, 2026Soundtracks can completely shape the experience of playing a video game. Whether that be an intense, drum-heavy score during a fight, or a melancholic piano ballad during a character’s death, music is one of the key things that affects our…
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Monday Music: An escape into the many lenses of shoegaze
May 18, 2026Shoegaze 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…
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Monday Music: For the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year
March 23, 2026The 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 start of the new year.…
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Monday Mewzick: Underground albums to kick-start the school year
November 8, 2025As 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…
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Monday Music: Songs for moving forward, healing, and letting go
July 7, 2025“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 over a sample from Willie…
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Monday Music: Songs to aid your astral journey
July 3, 2025Doing 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 created this playlist that will…
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Monday Music: A reminder that time is lived in every direction, at every speed
June 25, 2025A 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 already passed by. Music reminds…
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2025 song of the summer shortlist
June 25, 2025It’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 the summer. Can Benson Boone save us? No. Can the…
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