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![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 […]
Festival Coverage
Portlands’ beloved city festival, Project Pabst, has made a roaring comeback since 2017, with locals and PNW residents coming in for the occasion. Project Pabst has an epic reputation of bringing together the perfect mix of nostalgic legends and contemporary greats, and this years’ installment did just that. Featuring Iggy Pop, Death Cab for Cutie, […]
Art
As a former Austin resident, South by Southwest (SXSW) was the fair I’d had mixed feelings about – event lines could be long, traffic is a nightmare and most of the time, you won’t even get in. Still, on more than a few occasions friends would drive down to visit me from Dallas and […]
![One, Two, Three, Four, Fight: Justice Delivers Explosive Dance Party at Moody Center in Austin, TX [Photos + Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC029691.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
On the eve of Austin’s SXSW, the only place to be on Thursday night was bearing witness to the electronic French duo Justice, composed of members Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. Returning with their first album in nearly a decade, Hyperdrama, the synth wave pioneers have spent the majority of that time staying busy […]
![Ghosts Of Our Revolutionary Ancestors + Hieroglyphics at Roseland Theater in Portland, OR [Photos by Bear Perry]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hiero-2.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Guest Posts
Last night Roseland Theater played host to a lineup of legendary hip hop wordsmiths with rose city greats Ghosts of Our Revolutionary Ancestors (GORA) and Oakland heroes Hieroglyphics. Made up of Mic Crenshaw, Libretto, Redray Frazier & DJ Klavical, GORA were a sensational opener for the evening, bringing out Portlands’ old heads for a rare night of cultural indulgence. […]
Midwest
The Boredomfighters are back at The Black Box on December 19th for a Not So Silent Auction raising money for The Bob Moog Foundation and funding music workshops for kids in underserved communities. The night will feature music in the main room by special guest headliners, an Instrument Garden Studio in the Lounge, and an […]
Art
Returning to The Fonda Theatre for the second year in a row, London-based producer Max Cooper brought his visionary live 3D audio/visual set back to Los Angeles last month on November 14th. Known for his mind-bending journey sets spanning multiple genres, Max Cooper—a producer, DJ, and visual artist of over 15 years—is truly one of […]
![Adventure, Mystery + Surprise: Hulaween 2024 [Highlights + Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/HL24-102424143125-jstrausservisuals-arrival-14.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
There is a special feeling when you step into the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. Known for its unspoiled forests of 100 year old Spanish moss-covered oak trees, the rushing wild blackwater banks of the Suwannee River and the vast meadows which have served as homebase to numerous festivals of both […]