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Festival Coverage
As you turn off U.S. Route 285 South and embark on the descent of Country Road 126, the scenery likens to a clip from the docuseries Planet Earth. The winding road borders the side of the glimmering North Fork South Platte River; rolling meadows showcase a palette of flourishing earth tones, towering pines set below […]
![Psychs Peak Music & Camping Festival Returns to Pine, CO August 27-29 [Festival Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PsychsPeak_Color_Logo-scaled-1.png?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1){kind=logo}
Live events
Chalked up to be one of the best weekends of the year by past attendees, Psychs Peak is an intimate music and camping festival taking place in the beautiful forests of Pine, Colorado, just an hour from the Mile High City. Happening August 27-29 over the Sturgeon full moon and a partial lunar eclipse, this […]
![Psychs Peak 2025: A Weekend of Unforgettable Psychedelic Mayhem in Pine, CO [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_0189-min-2.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
Psychs Peak…where to begin? To encapsulate this in-capturable experience, full of inspiring talent and joyous debauchery, into verbiage on paper is a challenge I have been dwelling on for the past week. As the decompressing and processing of this glorious September weekend in Pine, Colorado, settles into reverent reflection mode, my soul expands with graciousness […]
![The House Show of the Year: Denver’s Cowapalooza ‘25 [Recap + Photos]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_0120-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
This past Saturday marked an incendiary day in the heart of the Mile High City – Cowapalooza. A show-stacked, community-driven day of unadulterated mayhem in Capitol Hill, this event was hosted by local psychedelic grunge cosmonauts – Rugburn, and it surely delivered everything it promised. A full day of fun-soaked, cow-themed, house party vibes with […]
![Austin’s Levitation Fest Gears up for 2025 Edition – Fee-Free Tix THIS Weekend [Festival Promo]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/LEVITATION-2025-poster_72617871-470d-49c2-b843-a478ef5c3edc_1052x.webp?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live events
The raddest fest in Austin, Texas, is back next month for three full days of masterfully fused psychedelic bliss and mayhem. This year, the incendiary Levitation festival touches down at a brand new venue — The Palmer Events Center. The lineup of music somehow gets better every year – and after the fest, you can […]
![Psychs Peak: Camping, Art, Music & Lore in Pine, Colorado, Sept. 5-6th, 2025 [Festival Promo]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PP_lineup_v2_1080x1350-scaled-1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Art
Picture it…you’re lying back under the glistening stars, psychedelic Rock and RRoll is humming into your eardrums, and looming pine trees hold you and your fellow music lovers – as you all bask in two glorious nights of camping, music, art, and connection. Make this your reality at Psychs Peak, a DIY community-driven camping festival […]
![Psych Rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers Scorch the Scene in Boulder [Show Review + Video]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_7747.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
[cover photo by Harper King courtesy of the band] Hailing from the glorious gutters of L.A. by way of Bloomington, Indiana, psychedelic garage rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers brought their full-time frenzy to the likes of The Fox Theatre last Friday, September 27th. Denver’s own Slow Caves heated up the stage with their melodic […]
![The Osees Conjure the Best of their Wide-Ranging Sound in Denver [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_6810.jpeg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, will go forever down in my personal live music history as the first day I had the honor to witness the Osees in all of their psychedelic glory. With such a dynamic evolution through the last two plus decades, I had only a sliver of an idea of what would go […]
![Natural Child Delivers Real Rock and Roll to Denver’s Bluebird Theater [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_6592-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
Rough and tough rock and rollers Natural Child brought their homegrown tunage to the Rocky Mountains last weekend for two nights of genuinely epic music. Hot off a rowdy night at Denver’s Globe Hall on Friday, the quintet brought their feel-good, act-bad shenanigans to East Colfax’s Bluebird Theater on Saturday September 7th — and we […]
Hip-Hop
The importance of Madvillainy can never be understated. The collaborative 2004 album from the duo dubbed Madvillain (co-producers Madlib and the late, great MF DOOM) will remain a forever standout for its jazz-forward production, multi-dimensional sampling techniques, and ground-breaking distinction in the underground hip-hop scene. Its paramount value among the musical realms surpasses mere monetary […]