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![Dose of Inspiration | Meet the Jenkstars [Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/jenky-e1397677945282.jpg?resize=450%2C300&ssl=1)
Social Culture
If you consider yourself familiar with the festival circuit, you have more than likely come across the incredibly enticing work of an artist collective known as the Jenkstars. Founded on the belief that art opens minds, and thus can ultimately transform the world, this team of builders, thinkers, designers and performers come together to do […]
Electronic
Resonant Frequency is the combined kinetic energy of four electro-soul producers: Diamond Cuts (Vincent Seidl), Lando (Landone Reichle), Local Color (Ben Slade) and Focal Point (Preston Flynn). The future-funk quartet decided to combine their livetronica music production talent last November when they played the same house party. “At first we planned on touring together as […]
![How To Make the Perfect Blackened Salmon [Recipe]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_1974-e1402934228451.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1)
Social Culture
This is one of my favorite new recipes, both for the flavor and for the teamwork it requires. My wonderful boyfriend, Jameson, is always in charge of the blackened salmon itself. We usually cook together, and this is one of our best dishes. I’m highly sensitive to the massive amount of smoke that the cooking […]
Electronic
Benji Vaughan, a legend of Shpongle’s label Twisted Records, is one of those kinetic producers with the ability to do it all. The London-based producer has crafted music on many ends of the electronic spectrum under different alter egos: Younger Brother (often with Simon Posford), Prometheus, and The Zap. Benji’s latest masterpiece Even Tundra was […]
Electronic
A well rounded pallet is necessary for appreciating any art form, and music is no different. Flavor of the Week will be the platform for sharing our favorite new tracks across a variety of genres. For our first week we’re listening to Glitch-Hop, a genre primarily categorized by its no holds barred, anything-goes tempos and […]
![[MYO] Ultimate Ginger Detox Bath](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/steam.jpg?resize=377%2C213&ssl=1)
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The most essential part of having an effective detox bath is to sweat. Toxins build up within the body and sweating them out is one of the most potent ways to release them. Sweating rids the body of salt, alcohol and heavy metals. Raising the temperature of your body also produces more white blood cells, which sweating […]
East Coast
CYM’s TOP 20 US FESTIVALS OF 2014 Although festival season has already hit the ground running, we came up with this list of fests you can catch just in time for summer! Take note of the fact that these are only upcoming festivals in the US that made our list; there is a whole other […]
Indie
Having been a devoted fan of the Mars Volta for many years, I am all too familiar with the heart wrenching feeling that many other fans were left with after the disbandment in 2013. I cannot stress enough how insanely happy it makes me to hear that founding members, the insistently innovative Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and prolific […]
![SHPONGLE | April 4, 2014 at the Irving Plaza in New York City [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ssiiiimon.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
Though I’ve seen Shpongle perform many times, I don’t think it could ever be considered the same experience. Whether its performing in a psychedelic tower passing off as a DJ booth, or on a standard plain table, accompanied with a live band and dancers, or just as his wonderfully insane self, Simon Posford has rarely […]
Festival Coverage
It’s impossible for anything to bloom into its full potential without change; Sonic Bloom is embracing this notion of change with its relocation to American Safari Ranch in South Park, CO on June 19-22 this year. The gorgeous new location is the ideal place for the transformational music and camping festival to blossom into its […]