The Occurrence - User: Melissa Bobbitt

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,...

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...

Implants From Chaos to Order Cyber Tracks For those of us who used to enthusiastically buy those inexpensive punk CD compilations at Hot Topic, Implants read like a meeting of the gods. Composed of...

Whitehorse images by Melissa Bobbitt The Hotel Cafe was gently invaded from the North on an unsuspecting Saturday. Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland took their musical collaboration known as Whitehorse and steamrolled the mellow...

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning at Coachella. Photos by Melissa Bobbitt. Through sand, wind and dubious amounts of dub step, we survived Coachella 2013! This was definitely one of the more contentious...

Image courtesy Cornerstone "I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on...