Jun 08, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Floridian singer/songwriter Chris Farren has recently shared a music video for his new song “Bluish” off of his upcoming album, Doom Singer. More

May 18, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Canadian band Living Hour have announced the release of a new album, Someday Is Today, which will be out on September 2 via Kanine. They have also shared a video for the album’s lead single, “Feelings Meeting,” featuring Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte), who also co-produced the album. More

Sep 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2021. We liked enough new songs this week to form a Top 11. More

Sep 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) released their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, back in May via Polyvinyl (stream it here). Now they have shared a brand new song “I See It Now,” that was recorded after the sessions for Doomin’ Sun were completed. More

May 28, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) have released their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, today via Polyvinyl. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Thursday we posted our new interview with Bachelor and our review of the album. Plus, they have shared a new video for the album’s “Back of My Hand” that stars the duo as obsessed Harry Styles fans. More

Apr 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) are releasing their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, on May 28 via Polyvinyl. Now they have shared a new song from it, the relaxed “Sick of Spiraling.” More

Apr 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone, Caleb Campbell, and Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 14th Songs of the Week of 2021. In this week’s news, the case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd wound down, with closing arguments expected on Monday. More

Apr 13, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Anjimile has announced a new EP which will feature expanded orchestral versions of songs from his debut album, Giver Taker, along with collaborations with artists Jay Som, SASAMI, and Lomelda. The EP’s lead single, “In Your Eyes (Reflection),” which features Jay Som, has also been shared. Reunion will be out on May 7 via Father/Daughter. More

Mar 24, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) have announced their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, and shared a new song from it, “Stay in the Car,” via a video for the single. More

Feb 26, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2021. This week’s big music news was probably that Daft Punk had broken up. More

Feb 25, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Bachelor (the newly-announced duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) have shared their debut single together, entitled “Anything at All.” It is available now via Polyvinyl. More

Nov 17, 2020 By Joey Arnone

Routine, the collaborative project between Annie Truscott (bassist for Chastity Belt) and Melina Duterte (the artist behind Jay Som), have shared a new song, “Calm and Collected,” and an accompanying music video. More

Aug 04, 2020 By Jennifer Irving

Today, Secretly (the label group featuring Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, and Secretly Canadian) has announced Friends Of, a new collaborative effort that will be a series of special releases from artists, some part of the labels and others not. The first installment in the series will be Ryan Hemsworth’s Pout EP, out August 28th on Jagjaguwar, and they have shared its first single, “Keep Touch (Ft. Leland Whitty).” More

May 21, 2020 By Samantha Small

Soccer Mommy (aka Sophie Allison) is the gift that just keeps on giving. After spearheading an 8-bit animated tour, she has now launched the Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series. It kicks off with Soccer Mommy and Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) trading covers More

Feb 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2020. Since Monday was President’s Day here in America, it should’ve been a less busy week for new tracks, but there was still plenty to choose from and this week we’ve got 12 songs that we consider the week’s best. More

Feb 20, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) released a new album, Anak Ko, last year via Polyvinyl. Now she has shared two new songs, “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep,” that were recorded during the sessions for Anak Ko but didn’t make the final tracklist. More

Nov 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The National have announced the lineup to their 2020 Homecoming festival and that they will be performing their 2010 album High Violet in its entirety both nights of the festival. More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another incredibly strong week for new songs. Last week we ended up with a Top 12, instead of our usual Top 10, and here we are again, except this time with a Top 13. Like last week, there are also a whole lot of honorable mentions. More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has released a new album, Anak Ko, today via Polyvinyl and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums and EPs released today: Sheer Mag, Taylor Swift, Missy Elliott, Joyero, BROCKHAMPTON, Raphael Saadiq, and Shannon Lay. More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has released a new album, Anak Ko, today via Polyvinyl. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Aug 09, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. With last week’s list we had a clear #1 and #2 in Angel Olsen and HAIM. This week it was a bit more of a challenge to decide the final order. But we still managed a solid Top 10. More

Aug 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) is releasing a new album, Anak Ko, on August 23 via Polyvinyl. Now she has shared another song from it, “Nighttime Drive,” via a video for the track. In it Duterte and her band are on the road in their tour van when they encounter a hula hooping alien. More

Jul 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the July 4th holiday; there really weren’t too many new songs last week. So this week’s edition covers songs from both this week and last week, hence we have 12 choices. More

Jul 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) is releasing a new album, Anak Ko, on August 23 via Polyvinyl. Previously she shared its first single, “Superbike,” via a lyric video for the track (it was #1 on our Song of the Week list). Now she has shared another song from the album, the dreamy “Tenderness,” via a video for the track. More

Jun 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were several notable albums announced this week, which meant some strong opening singles to choose from, as well as a few album tracks. More

Jun 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has announced a new album, Anak Ko, and shared its first single, “Superbike,” via a lyric video for the track. She has also announced some tour dates. More

Feb 19, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has shared a brand new song, “Simple.” It was released as part of the Adult Swim Singles series. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We tend to avoid including cover versions in our Songs of the Week list, as they are not truly new songs, but this week we have included two notable ones in our main list. We also rarely include live songs in our Top 10 songs, but have made a big exception this week. More

Sep 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has teamed up with Justus Proffit for a collaborative EP, Nothing’s Changed, which is due out this Friday, September 28, via Polyvinyl. Now they have shared another song from it, “Invisible Friends.” More

Feb 02, 2018 By Mark Redfern

Wow, what a week for fantastic new tracks. Last week when we were putting together the Songs of the Week the pickings were slimmer and the best we could come up with was nine songs, rather than a full 10. More

Feb 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has shared a new song, “Hot Bread.” The song is part of Amazon Music’s Valentine’s Day-timed “Love Me, Love Me Not” playlist, which yesterday gave us “Up On a Mountain of Love,” a new song by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs. More

Jan 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

After two weeks of a plethora of tracks vying to be one of our Songs of the Week, this week the pickings were slimmer. Thus this week we have only nine best songs, instead of 10. There were also a lot of covers this week. More

Jan 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) released a fantastic album, Everybody Works, last March via Polyvinyl. (It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017.) Today she has released, via Polyvinyl, the new Pirouette 7-inch featuring two songs recorded during the Everybody Works sessions that didn’t make the album: “Pirouette” and “O.K., Meet Me Underwater.” More

Jan 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) released a fantastic album, Everybody Works, last March via Polyvinyl. (It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017.) Now she has announced a new 7-inch featuring two songs recorded during the Everybody Works sessions that didn’t make the album: “Pirouette” and “O.K., Meet Me Underwater.” More

Dec 30, 2017 By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we’d say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don’t support many, if any, of President Trump’s policies). More

Oct 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) released her debut full-length album, Everybody Works, back in March via Polyvinyl. It’s an eclectic and confident mix of dream pop and garage rock. Now she has shared a video for “The Bus Song.” Japanese Breakfast (aka Michelle Zauner) directed the video, which features Duterte and friends goofing around the Bay Area, picking up more musicians as they go. More

Jul 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) released her debut full-length album, Everybody Works, back in March via Polyvinyl. It’s an eclectic and confident mix of dream pop and garage rock. Now she has shared a new song on Bandcamp, “Time Off Work,” under the name Melina Mae. More

May 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) released her debut full-length album, Everybody Works, back in March via Polyvinyl. More

Apr 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly). More

Feb 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bay Area singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) will release her debut full-length album, Everybody Works, on March 10 via Polyvinyl. More

Dec 11, 2019 By Matt Fink

Melina Duterte has no need for embellishment. Ask her how she came up with the title of her third full-length release as Jay Som, Anak Ko, and she admits it has no particular connection to the album. More

Jun 29, 2017 By Laura Stanley

On “The Bus Song,” the first single from Everybody Works, the official debut album from Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte), Duterte has a conversation with a friend. Along the bumpy journey, their exchange is bolstered by conviction and compassion: “I can be whoever I want to be,” Duterte softly sings. More

Jul 31, 2018 By Max Freedman

Melina Duterte is a champ. More