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![Hear ye, Hear ye! Fresh ‘Spring Cheese’ Tour Dates Announced [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/16265268_10154510428616645_2232730107498559826_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Jamband
There’s really nothing like fresh tour announcements. And when you find THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT in your backyard with a three-night run at Stubb’s in Austin, TX – April 13 to April 15 – that is cause to celebrate with cartwheels and backflips! SCI announced spring tour dates for Texas and the Midwest earlier today. […]
![CRSSD Fest Spring Edition Invites Flume, Duke Dumont, Claude Von Stroke to Ocean Side Party | March 4th + 5th, 2017 [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/CRSSD1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
California has been the hub for many musical explosions; the counter-culture rock movement in the 60’s that began out of the Bay Area is one example. Move forward a couple decades and you’ll find a new attitude blossoming with the rise of gangster rap and hip-hop that stemmed from the LA and surrounding areas. […]
![All I Need: Badfish at The Aztec Theatre 1.19.17 [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20170119_195954.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
Blocks away from the Aztec Theatre, was quiet. A trio paid for parking and checked for tickets. “You going to Sublime?” Three grins. “Yea, man!” Never mind that Sublime hasn’t been around for some twenty years. Badfish is in town. And where Badfish go, Sublime lives. It was about 7:30 and the Aztec lobby was already […]
![Getting sloped on The Floozies ‘Powder Rangers’ Tour: Frisco to Aspen [Show Review] | January 14th + 15th, 2017](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/floozies.jpg?resize=600%2C315&ssl=1)
Electronic
Once you know me, you’ll soon find out that there are very few things I will drop everything for to pursue, and they all involve food and music. So it might have seemed spontaneous to some, but it made perfect sense to me – The Floozies were in the midst of a Colorado run, and […]
![deM atlaS, The Grungy Rapper You’ve Been Praying For [Artist Spotlights]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dematlascover.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Hip-Hop
For everyone complaining about trash rappers these days, deM atlaS is here to bring some saving grace. His dark and haunting melodies will echo down a dim street in your mind. Hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota he is among the freshman class of new rappers on my favorite label – Rhymesayers. His sound is a rap revival of Seattle grunge – at some […]
East Coast
Forget the winter and start thinking about grilling – BangOn! just announced their first ever camping festival for Memorial Day weekend. Elements Music & Art Festival – Lakewood seems like the best way to kick off the 2017 festival season. With a stacked phase one announcement and just a short 2.5-hour drive from NYC this […]
![Look at the Love We Found: January 2017 Badfish Dates in Texas [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/badfish_newgraphic.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
Sometimes, you just feel lucky. Like when you find out that Badfish, the world’s greatest tribute to Sublime, is touring through your city this month. For me, that’s January 19 at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. For you, it is probably January 22nd at Empire Control Room in Austin, Texas. Maybe it is the […]
![VERY Limited Tickets Available for WinterWonderGrass Steamboat + Chances to Win Passes [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14884577_907137406086483_4785515453133424711_o.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
The originally sold out WinterWonderGrass Steamboat festival has just announced a very limited number of 3 day festival tickets for $199 that will go on sale next week. These tickets will go as quickly as the rest so sign up for the WWG newsletter and keep your eye on social media posts for information. WWG is […]
![One Love Cali Reggae Fest Playlist, Day Lineups + More! [Festival Playlist]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/one-love-1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
One Love Cali Reggae Fest, California’s biggest reggae festival, has announced its final lineup additions and created quite the anticipation for the beloved fest taking place on The Queen Mary in Long Beach, February 10th-12th. The 2017 lineup boasts so many amazing names, we cannot even list them all. For the first time for three days, […]
![Analog Son talk about new album, legendary studio sessions, and more [Artist Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/analogson.png?resize=600%2C352&ssl=1)
Funk
Denver, Colorado’s Analog Son have quietly been adding on to their funky enterprise over the last year, and we’ll all get a taste of their new album this coming January! The enigmatic duo consisting of bassist Joshua Fairman and guitarist Jordan Linit have penned January 24th as the album release date, and everyone is invited […]