Pamela. with a period are Josh and Sarah, who describe their musical vibe as sitting somewhere in the between The Marías, The Strokes, and The xx. Expect a brilliant mix of: Modern alt-pop laced with effortless harmonies, shimmering, atmospheric guitar work and playful, provocative lyricism.
Pamela blends nostalgic indie-rock textures with sleek, modern pop sensibilities. Reminds me of some 1980s and 1990s alt pop rock.
Recommended tracks: "Better Than Before" and this live version of "Pandemonium." See the videos connected to this post.
Gotta love this quirky indie pop hit from Mollie Elizabeth. It's been climbing up my chart for a month and made it to #1last week. The song is a growing viral hit with several people and the artist herself creating YouTube Shorts and TikToks on social media. "Run Rabbit" deserves to be a bigger hit.
Who is Mollie Elizabeth?Never heard of her until "Run Rabbit" was released in May. Gemini AI has this to say about her.
Mollie Elizabeth has been making massive waves in the alt-pop and indie scenes with her cinematic, dark-fairytale sound. Key Details About Mollie Elizabeth
Real Name: She performs under her actual first and middle name, Mollie Elizabeth. On social media, she is also well-known by her handle, doeyedfairie.
Where She Is From: She hails from the Cascade Range in Washington State and grew up just outside of Seattle. Her upbringing in the Pacific Northwest woods heavily inspires the atmospheric, "tiny worlds" she creates in her music.
Age: She is 22 years old (born in 2003).
Musical Journey:She has been active professionally since 2024, meaning she has been officially releasing music for about two years. She first gained major internet traction in January 2025 with her viral debut single "Vegas Venetian", which led to her signing with Neon Gold Records. She followed that up with her debut EP, Dirty Blonde, in late 2025, before dropping her massive viral hit "Run Rabbit" in May 2026.
This will be a new feature to this blog... PLAYLISTS... Embedded here from Spotify or YouTube, I will start sharing my specialized playlists here. If you have a Spotify subscription you should be able to play all of the songs in a Spotify playlist right through. It works on some browsers but not all. Try it out or link directly the Spotify the listen to the list. Subscribe to it if you like.
First up is my 1970s (with some 1960s) era music from high school days and early college that were popular tracks on local Top 40 radio stations in Hawaii such as KPOI, KKUA and on the neighbor islands, KMVI, KPUA and KHLO. These were all AM stations back in the day and they played some great regional only hits mixed in with the familiar mainline top 40 hits.
This first list that I recently re-created from a CD that I burned years ago features some great tracks.
The cover art was used for the burned CD that I made which actually contained several different songs from what's on this list, since Spotify did not have them. Tracks like "Me Japanese Boy" by Liz Damon, "Groovin Out on Life" by The New Beats, "Searchin'" by Cecilio and Kapono and "Remember Mary" by The Sweet Marie which are on my burned CD had to be excluded and substituted with what was/is available on Spotify.
Check out this video of Olivia Dean on the Graham Norton Show in the UK. This live TV performance is the latest single off her album The Art of Loving currently at #20 on Mel's Current Top 20.
Starting with this post the blog is once again rebooted to feature a video of the day post from a YouTube source. The daily featured clip will come from a variety of music genres, new, old, classic, borrowed, indie, rock, country, blues and more.
First up.. ELLA LANGLEY and her current hit "Choosin' Texas" debuting this week on my Current Top 20 at #20.
