Can you believe it’s been five whole years since From the Intercom started making year-end lists? Five. Whole. Years! I still remember sitting alone in the local coffee shop (which has since closed down), typing away at a list that I thought that no one would bother to look at. My selection process for the […]
Here are our favorite albums of 2019. Part 3/3.
The first time I saw Jay Som (Melina Duterte) perform live, it was back in 2016. Opening for the-then relatively unknown singers Mitski and Japanese Breakfast, Duterte rounded out the now-legendary triple-bill of critically acclaimed Asian American female artists. But at the time, all I knew about Jay Som was the name, and the two […]
Out there in the sea of DIY self-starters, perhaps no artist shines as bright as bedroom pop musician Jay Som (Melina Duterte). After releasing a loose batch of songs that became her debut album Turn Into in 2016 and the more fully formed Everybody Works in 2017 (both to widespread critical acclaim), a lot has changed […]
Ahh, Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it, it’s a day for us to reflect on our relationships… both the good and the bad… the past and the present. Luckily for us, love is a topic that nearly every artist out there has explored in their music in one way or another. From slow ballads […]