This is a damn good day. The prolific Melina Duterte aka Jay Som was included in Rolling Stone's latest edition of The New Classics, i.e. "20 creative visionaries from the worlds of music, acting, comedy, sports and more." In the stellar company of Mitski, Jlin, Adam Rippon, and Vince Staples, Rolling Stone dubbed Melina "The Indie Rock Hero" –

"In performance, Jay Som – the alias of 24-year-old Melina Duterte – has a way of transforming her intimate, home-recorded sweet nothings into a swinging party fit for hundreds of strangers.

For years she penned pop songs in private, most happy to wield a microphone when singing karaoke with her Filipino family, but after she self-released nine songs on Bandcamp one evening, she was on her way to becoming an indie-rock hero."

Go Melina Go! Find Jay Som playing select dates this year with The National, Courtney Barnett, Paramore, and Foster the People.