#melina duterte

[azaraeth]

new promotional photos of Jay Som for their upcoming album Belong, out Oct. 10th

[butchbird-art]

i wanted to see you, i wanted to cry, i wanted to let myself live in a lie 🌱

if you haven't listened to jay som, what are you doing with your life? i've been a fan of her music since ~2019, and was so excited that she came back after 6 years with another solo project. definitely check out 'belong' and any of her other music 🩵

[thebowerypresents]

Boygenius Are Right at Home at Madison Square Garden

Boygenius – Madison Square Garden – October 2, 2023

Boy (!), did these people love those people. These people were all of us — the assembled throng at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, anyway — deeply enthralled by what was occurring on the stage and the vibe filling up the whole place. Those people were boygenius — the inspired supergroup comprising Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers — headlining there for the first time and completely owning it.

Supergroups are usually good-natured stunts, or at least don’t feel set up for any kind of real longevity. Boygenius, on the other hand, are convincingly a band. The three principals share an affinity for the space where open-armed, melancholy, confessional folk-rock meets steely, fist-pumping resolve, and while their individual styles are different, boygenius are the through line among them where somehow all this deeply intimate, soul-bearing music translates to a huge stage, way bigger than its individual parts, losing none of its quietly (and sometimes un-quietly) devastating power.

They began the set a cappella, singing “Within You Without Them” from backstage in gorgeous three-part harmonies, like a next-generation Emmylou Harris/Alison Krauss/Gillian Welch. From there they took the main stage to rapturous applause in front of a sturdy four-piece band — drummer Madden Klass, bassist Tiana Ohara, keyboardist Sarah Goldstone and well-utilized multi-instrumentalist Melina Duerte — and sliced into “$20” and “Satanist,” both full-throated rockers, sometimes with screams, as if to remind us that despite sometimes-delicate music, this would not be a delicate show.

Throughout it, boygenius proved masters of balance. The three-part harmonies returned to great effect on tunes like “True Blue.” Each took multiple turns singing lead vocals, drawing briefly from their own catalogs — Baker’s “Favor,” Bridgers’ “Graceland Too,” Dacus’ “Please Stay” — but focusing largely on the already-formidable boygenius catalog — the tender, ethereal, pained “Emily I’m Sorry,” the heavy “Bite the Hand,” the stirring “Me and My Dog,” all highlights.

There were newer songs, too: The set closed with “Powers,” debuted a few nights earlier in Philadelphia and one of four tunes the band played late in the show from a B-stage, immersing in the audience — endlessly, that joyful, triumphant vibe. Joined by opener MUNA for the final encore, “Salt in the Wound,” boygenius left us feeling benedictory — take these good feelings and embrace them for how beautifully raw they really are. —Chad Berndtson | @Cberndtson

Photos courtesy of Grayson Wise | @grayokay

[yourdailyqueer]

Jay Som (Melina Duterte)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 25 March 1994

Ethnicity: Filipino

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician, music producer

[stevenvenn]

Bachelor - Stay in the Car (from Doomin’ Sun out in May) Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner have created a new band called Bachelor and I am loving this new single! Looking forward to hearing more at the end of May.

[godsavetheanimalz]

LOVE HER SM!!!! 💓💓💓

[asianamsmakingmusic]

Jay Som Is Taking Control by Letting Go

On her breezy but formidable new album ‘Anak Ko,’ the multi-intrumentalist songwriter stripped down her sound and left room for collaborators. The result makes the contours of her vision crystal clear.

excerpt:

“I feel like a lot of Filipino parents say that to their children—‘Anak ko, I love you!’” Duterte says. “It’s very endearing, a comfy kind of phrase. It’s such a sweet name to have as the title of the record. But there’s also the metaphorical meaning.” She chuckles, rolling her eyes behind the lenses of her round, silver glasses. “My child. I’ve talked to musicians that view releasing a record kind of like you’re birthing a child out into the world.”

[talented-musicians]

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