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Electronic
If you are headed to Serenity Gathering you really need to check out our contributor Sarah Hoffman’s curated SoundCloud playlist, featuring all of our favorite artists from this year’s lineup. On a reservation in California Serenity Gathering offers an escape from the winter blues that is taking over right now! Prepare yourselves for Serenity with […]
![[Festival Review] Finding Ourselves in The Desert | Gem and Jam Music Festival February 6th – 8th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/unnamed-9.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
As we made our descent upon the old desert town of Tucson, Lauren and I were riddled with uncontainable excitement. Though it’d be my second year of the festival and Lauren’s first, our levels on the stoked factor were just as equally off the charts. After 12 hours of driving, the sight of a landscape […]
Festival Coverage
It seems to make more and more sense to us that Arizona is the perfect place to kick off festival season proper. After covering Gem and Jam Festival earlier this February, there’s another AZ fest that is calling our names to return to the desert. Taking place in downtown Phoenix, McDowell Mountain Music Festival is […]
Electronic
If the kick ass shenanigans that ensued at last year’s BUKU Music + Arts Project are any indication of what’s to come, we can only imagine what’s set to go down in Nawlin’s this March! The stages, the pop-up street performances, the after parties that never ended – ready yourselves for the BUKU experience of […]
![[Festie Friday Spotlight] Summer Camp Music Festival | MANIC FOCUS](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/manic-focus-wakarusa-2014.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
John McCarten, the artist known as Manic Focus produces melodic yet bass heavy tracks, completely embodying the Midwest in his sounds. Hailing from Chicago, Manic Focus has taken the music scene by storm, recently collaborating with hip-hop inspired duo Krooked Drivers. He has also been making moves working with other artists, such as GRiZ, Break Science, and SunSquabi grinding out […]
![[Photo Gallery] Gem and Jam Music Festival | February 6-8th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/unnamed-91.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
We were so grateful to be apart of the Gem and Jam press team again this year! Taking place in the beautiful desert of Tucson, Arizona, G&J is the South West’s prominent music festival that caters to the electronic bass scene. Adding in the internationally renowned gem and mineral show that takes over the city […]
![[Artist Interview] Creating A Vision Within the Festival World| An Interview with Imagine Nation](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/10929562_996416103719853_6129990059301454189_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
Who are the Imagine Nation, you ask? They are a band of dreamers and do-gooders. A band of people who are hard working, passionate, and forever waltzing with their heads above the clouds, inspiring, creating, and always celebrating the perils and successes of life. The Imagine Nation are unlike anyone we know, because they are […]
![#TBT [Photo Gallery] Gem and Jam Festival 2014 in Tucson, AZ](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DSC07264.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
With Gem and Jam Festival now only 8 days away, we are stoked to present our #ThrowBackThursday photo gallery for the week. Consisting of Maddy O Neal and Donnie Dalbora, Krooked Drivers possess a hyped and intrinsic energy that enables the duo to churn out endless hip-hop and bluesy beats that refuse to be pigeonholed into […]
Electronic
Yoga Turn Up With GRiZ When you’re on the road for a festival two states away, you truly start to embrace your inner yogi; there’s nothing quite like a lengthy stretch to revive your limbs and refresh your mind. Sexy saxman Grant Kwiecinski, aka GRiZ, agrees 100%. One of our favorite moments from last year’s BUKU was our […]
![[Photo Gallery] Gem and Jam Pre-Party with An-Ten-Nae, Govinda, Templo, Proper Motion, SoDown | Cervante’s Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver, CO January 10th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
As Gem and Jam peeks its head with just under a month away, there’s nothing like a pre-party to get your excitement going for what that beautiful weekend will have in store! As one of our favorite festivals to kick off the new year, Gem and Jam is a spectacle like no other, combining the […]