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Festival Coverage
During the weekend of July 12th and 13th, Compose Yourself Mag had the ultimate pleasure of journeying to the beautiful and scenic town of Telluride, Colorado to join the press team at the Ride Festival! Featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Thievery Corporation, Rival Sons, Spoon, The Hold Steady, and plenty others, it was […]
Festival Coverage
Truly one of Colorado’s premier breweries, Breckenridge knows how to throw a party! For their 24th anniversary on July 12, 2014, and their last shindig at the historic Kalamath Street location, the brewery hosted a full-on, all-inclusive ‘hootenanny,’ complete with music, beer & pig-roast. The pork was scrumptious, the music perfect & the beer, of […]
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Social Culture
All Pink Everything : San Marcos, Texas Karla Vinueza is currently living in San Marcos, Texas and attending Texas State University. Her photo project, TEXAS, is her way of capturing the essence of the Southern state in all its glory. TEXAS will be featuring the following cities: Houston, San Marcos, Austin, and Dallas. With constantly […]
East Coast
There’s only less than a week to go until the second annual FARM Fest starts, and anticipation for this festival is reaching an all-time high. FARM Fest’s lineup is varied and deep, consisting of such popular headliners as Papadosio and EOTO, choice psychedelic electronica like Desert Dwellers and Bluetech, great local talent like Space Jesus […]
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Festival Coverage
This past weekend I had the distinct pleasure of taking part in one of Denver, Colorado’s premier legal recreational marijuana conventions, the 710 Cup! Hosted by Grassroots California, this 4-day event, celebrating cannabis concentrates in the form of hash oil, included music, art, vendors & of course plenty of ‘dabs’ as the grand opening of […]
Live Music Coverage
My first introduction to Fink was the most beautifully random thing I’d had the chance to discover a couple years ago. Stumbling upon treasures like Fink are one of the best things that can happen to your music taste buds. The first tune I played by Fink was “Pretty Little Thing” from his soulful “Biscuits […]
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Electronic
The intimate mood and setting of Cervantes’ Ballroom was a match made in Heaven for what Thursday night would bring to the dance floor. Headlined by Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza, the evening promised to be one full of reinvigorating and sexy House balanced with healthy doses of hyped up, electro goodness and down-tempo ambience provided […]
East Coast
Dwelling from Southern California, these two combine their love and influences from the desert to create universal yoga bass music. Desert Dwellers consists of Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe; together they are one of the leaders in downtempo music from the United States. The Desert Dwellers have their roots in the Southern California dance collective […]
East Coast
As if Farm Fest’s lineup wasn’t stellar enough, the folks over at Funkadelphia are bringing the Funkytown Stage, a completely different aspect of the festival with an additional lineup guaranteed to keep the funk alive at Farm Fest throughout the weekend. Featuring such great artists as Unlimited Gravity, Project Aspect, Spankalicious, Supersillyus, a secret special […]
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House
If you’ve ever been to a show at the 1015 Folsom in San Fransisco you already know it’s one of the best spots in the Bay to get your fix of Electronic/Bass Music. When Euphonic Conceptions gets down with their monthly RE:Creation parties, the caliber of performers and sonic intensity of the music only amplifies, […]