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Interviews
There’s a reason an entire crowd can become transfixed with a particular stage at a festival or concert, completely mesmerized by titillating sensory delights, pulsating sounds and the overall extreme production and detail such events need to come to fruition. We revel in the musical goodness that our favorite performers release from the stage, but the […]
![[Artist Interview] Odesza Sits Down With CYM After Closing Out Northern Nights Music Festival | July 18th-20th, 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/taaai.jpg?resize=600%2C180&ssl=1)
Electronic
The duo that make up ODESZA, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, have been killing the electronic music scene consistently over the last 2 years. With their unique style of melodic bass music, they have been increasingly playing more festivals and sold out shows all around the globe. Their innovative sound and energetic live shows keep fans […]
Electronic
During this year’s South By South West Music and Networking Conference in Austin,TX we had the chance to kick back with one of the Bay area’s most talented music producers, Nicholas Alvarado, aka Pumpkin. In addition to talking about the craziness of SXSW, his origins in the burner scene and what was next up on […]
Interviews
Larry Clack is an incredibly talented artist from Garland, Texas with a passion for inking colorfully eccentric renditions of the world as he sees it. Over the years, Clack has molded together his signature style that has a way of sublimely catching your eye; a style that reflects a sense of complexity through a spontaneous combination of graffiti and […]
Festival Coverage
Slightly Stoopid is a band that needs no introduction. As one of the most heavily touring groups of our time, the band’s mellow and easy going reggae-ska has allowed them to live a long and fulfilling musical career, stretching nearly twenty years. Their upcoming tour, Summer Sessions, features the band alongside hip hop legends Cypress […]
Electronic
We caught up with Jeff Montalvo of Seven Lions in Nashville, TN, one of the first few stops on the Worlds Apart Tour, prompted by the April 29th release of his Worlds Apart EP. The 26-year-old California native is most notable for the element of darkness that he creates in his productions through a fusion […]
![[Artist Interview] Thaddaeus Timothy Jr | Bowties for a Cause](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/thaddaeus.jpg?resize=600%2C360&ssl=1)
East Coast
Thaddaeus Timothy is a rare kind of gentleman that you’ll hopefully meet more than once in your lifetime. He has all of the qualities one would be admired of, as he is quirky, fun-loving, hard-working and compassionate. It’s often rare that chance encounters with a person of this caliber would be found in just any […]
![[Artist Interview] Dustin Davidson of August Burns Red Talks Tour Life, New Side Project and More](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/aaug.png?resize=566%2C375&ssl=1)
Indie
As the metal scene’s fanbase continues to grow exponentially, it’s easy to give some of the credit to hardcore band staples like August Burns Red. With a rigorous tour schedule that has taken them around the world for over a decade, and a Facebook page clocking in over 1 million fans, it comes as no […]
![Having Sushi with Pumpkin at SXSW 2014 | [Artist Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC07572.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
As SXSW came to a close and the streets of Austin began to settle from the leftover traces of chaos, we met with producer Nicholas Alvarado, better known as Pumpkin, for an interview. We decided to meet over sushi, and Austin’s notably delicious Piranha Killer seemed a perfect fit. His flawless mixing, impeccable song selection […]
![[Artist Interview] Lionfight at South By So What?! 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/lionfight.png?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
While covering this year’s South By So What?! Music Festival in Grand Prairie, TX, we came across Lionfight, a Chicago, Illinois group whose unique style of speed metal has them taking off in 2014. Combining the talents of bassist Bryan Cole, drummer Peter Dornowski, guitarist Akash Hans and vocalist Nick Astacio, they deliver exactly what […]