Tagged Jay Som

“People are going hard at the Jay Som show!” someone in the crowd exclaimed. Jay Som, AKA Oakland-based musician Melina Duterte, looked up and beamed. “People are going hard at the Jay Som show!”...

If there’s one person who can get you to scream that you like the 51B, it’s Oakland-based musician Melina Duterte, or, as you may know her, Jay Som. “But I like the bus!” – the now iconic line of J...

I would like to think I know my way around a music festival--how to navigate a crowd, a lineup, a schedule. Music festivals, not unlike music, require a keen sense of timing. Though I tried to map out the in...

As South by Southwest officially enters its thirty-first year, I enter my twenty-first, and our paths finally collide. Growing up, my dad promised to take me to the Elysian musical free-for-all in Austin, Texas...

If you missed Mitski on Upper Sproul this semester, you're in luck. We're giving away a pair of tickets to her all-ages show at the Starline Social Club in Oakland on Friday, July 8, which also features San Fr...