The Occurrence - Category: Music

Image by Melissa Bobbitt Pop culture's hunger for buzzworthy food is now practically on par with its hunger for satiating music. (Full disclosure: This writer blogs at Forks, Knives and 45s, a site that rates...

Image by Joel Benjamin Perseverance pays. A longtime veteran of the music industry and one of the greats of the women's alternarock movement in the 1990s, Melissa Ferrick is back with the truth is (MPress...

In celebrating its billionth download, iTunes recently announced its top 25 downloaded apps of all time. Many of them have been thoroughly used by musicians and artists in reaching out directly to fans. But...

Pawnee Pasadena is holding its free annual music festival June 1. Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, it's officially summer music festival season! One we're particularly stoked about is Make Music Pasadena,...

Daft PunkRandom Access MemoriesDaft Life/Columbia "Give life back to music."  This clear and measured statement opens Daft Punk's colossal new album.  For a group that has spent all of their career in masks and have...

Image by Vincent Soyez Whereas modern folk artists like Mumford & Sons draw inspiration from the Deep South - blazin' banjos and porch-rattling foot stomps - one band is migrating its influences to the Deep,...

Assure your mom that "everything's fine" with Tracy Bonham's "Mother Mother." Another gorgeous spring day in May. Birds are singing, cool winds are blowing... everything's seemingly perfect. Except you forgot to call/email/carrier pigeon...

Little Boots Nocturnes On Repeat   It’s been over 3 years since Little Boots released her debut LP but that hardly means she hasn’t been keeping busy.  Since 2009’s, Hands, she has released the EP Illuminations...