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Video: Taylor Vick (Formerly of Boy Scouts) Shares 'Place That I Believe From'
by Josh Sharpe - May 22, 2024 Bay Area singer and songwriter Taylor Vick – formerly known under the moniker Boy Scouts – is releasing her first song under her own name. Titled “Place That I Believe From”, listen to the tender track below. “I wrote 'Place That I Believe From' about my attempt to locate the unlocatable — the ineff...
Boy Scouts Share Introspective Video For New Track 'Didn't I'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 24, 2021 Directed by Lucy Sandler (Billie Eilish, Rosie Tucker), the song’s new video shows Taylor in intimate and contemplative moments at different locations in the Bay Area, including the Pelican Inn, Bolinas Ridge, the Alpine Dam and more....
Boy Scouts Share New Single 'Wish'
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 02, 2020 With a keen ear for melody and a palpable sense of empathy, Taylor Vick of Boy Scouts picks apart all the confusing and contradictory ways that people glance off of each other while moving through their lives. Her music is an invitation to shake off the weight that has been dragging you down, to lig...
JAY SOM Releases Sophomore Album 'Anak Ko' via Polyvinyl Today!
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 23, 2019 Jay Som - a.k.a. Melina Duterte - releases her highly anticipated sophomore album Anak Ko today. The follow-up to her breakout debut album Everybody Works, which received countless year-end list accolades in 2017, Anak Ko is already critically acclaimed itself, with early praise from the likes of Th...
Boy Scouts Share New Song and Video For EXPIRATION DATE
by Tori Hartshorn - July 16, 2019 Posted up at a lemonade-stand-style table, watch Taylor Vick of Boy Scouts celebrate her birthday surrounded by friends in the new music video for “Expiration Date”. Her producer Stephen Steinbrink joins her in the clip, contributing harmony vocals to the song; Madeline Kenney (Hand Habits) directed...
Jay Som Shares New Song and Video For TENDERNESS
by Tori Hartshorn - July 11, 2019 Jay Som - a.k.a. Melina Duterte - recently announced her highly anticipated sophomore album Anak Ko, and today she shares the record's second single. Following 'Superbike,' 'Tenderness' is a slow-burning highlight off the forthcoming LP. Duterte calls it 'a feel-good, funky, kind of sexy song' in pa...
Boy Scouts Announces New Album 'Free Company'
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 24, 2019 As Boy Scouts, Oakland-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Vick makes the kind of music that hits like good advice from a beloved friend. It's generously warm and inviting, built atop her open, searching voice, but it doesn't shy away from tough emotional truths....
Jay Som Announces Sophomore Album ANAK KO Out 8/23 on Polyvinyl
by Tori Hartshorn - June 04, 2019 Today Jay Som - a.k.a. Melina Duterte - announces her sophomore album, Anak Ko, pronounced Ah-nuh Koh, and meaning 'my child' in Filipino.The follow-up to her breakout debut album Everybody Works, which received countless year-end list accolades in 2017, this album was completed during a week-long s...
Madonna to Receive the Advocate For Change Award at the GLAAD Media Awards
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 05, 2019 GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced today that LGBTQ icon Madonna will accept the Advocate for Change Award at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York City on May 4, 2019. Madonna is the second person and fi...
Madeline Kenney Shares New Song Produced by Wye Oak/Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner
by Tori Hartshorn - September 12, 2018 Next month Madeline Kenney will release her sophomore album Perfect Shapes, produced by Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner, and today she shares the record's third single. Following lead single “Cut Me Off” and breathtaking album opener “Overhead,” “Bad Idea” is about the subconsciously predict... |