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![[Review] Lightning in a Bottle 2015: 10 Years of Blowing Minds | Bradley, CA May 21st-25th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/LIB11.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
This year the festival culture is experiencing many 10 year reunions. This scene has been around for years now, and of the events that have presided over this auspicious period, perhaps no other festival offers such a dynamic lineup, and eclectic infrastructure as Lightning in a Bottle. This Festival has thrusted itself into new territory […]
![[Review + Photos] Campout for the Cause: A Wet and Wild Weekend on the Colorado River | May 21st-24th, 2015 in Bond, Colorado](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/AepKDuK3TJoI537j6lhu4neCwV5EsZzOzXg8ql1l6Ds1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
For those of you lucky enough to be a part of the seventh annual Campout for the Cause this year, you know it was a weekend to remember. Hundreds gathered on the banks of the Colorado River at Rancho Del Rio for four days of roots music, yoga, camping and paddle boarding from May 21 – […]
Hip-Hop
Glenn Waco is Portland’s newest breakout hip-hop artist, as well as a present day civil rights activist. Born in January of 1992, Glenn is 23 years old and a Portland, Oregon native; more specifically a Saint Johns native to those familiar with the North Portland neighborhood. Glenn’s mother has been a long time activist in […]
![[Photo Gallery] Lighting in a Bottle Music Festival | May 21-25th, 2015 in Bradley, California](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IMG_6231.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Take a journey through the 10th annual Lightning in a Bottle Music Festival, which took place May 21-25th in Bradley, CA. This desert hippy fest brought acts including Flume, Odesza, Tycho, Griz and RL Grime for their first ever sold out event. Relive your experience or confirm the fact that you need to attend next […]
![[Show Review] Tipper at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado | May 16th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redrocks.jpg?resize=600%2C355&ssl=1)
Electronic
So many tippies. From the moment I arrived to the lot, there were a bunch of familiar faces. As expected with a set date for this party announced almost a year ago, (flyers got passed out after Tipper’s set at Sonic Bloom last year), I ran into people I’d met from across the country all seemingly […]
![[Show Review] Opiuo + Russ Liquid + Project Aspect Bring Surprise Appearance to Knew Conscious Art Gallery | May 9th, 2015 in Denver, CO](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/KnewCMay40.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Last Saturday thousands of Gramatik fans headed to Red Rocks for a night of funky beats and groovin’ melodies, but were met instead with high winds, icy chills, and delayed time slots. Due to a sudden snowfall, openers Opiuo and Cherub were only able to perform about 20 minutes each, while Russ Liquid was squeezed […]
![[Photo Gallery] Exmag Ends Tour at The Bowery Ballroom in Brooklyn, NY | May 9th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/885789_826745700745913_981752914709828998_o.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
All photos taken by photographer Kyle Miller, aka The Saucy Monster! Geotheory + Exmag – The Bowery Ballroom in Brooklyn, New York. May 9th, 2015
![[New Music Monday] Technicolor Hearts Release New EP, ‘Now We’re Here’](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/10891994_765810463474706_2445812776433631116_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
The indie darling duo known as Technicolor Hearts have been conquering stages and winning over crowded rooms since they first began performing back in 2009, and caught our attention when they opened for Roger Sellers during SXSW in 2014. Made up of Naomi Cherie and Joseph Salazar, Technicolor Hearts create some of our favorite party-pop […]
![[Show Review] Sonic Bloom Pre-Parties in Denver, CO: Unifying the Field at Cervante’s Masterpiece Ballroom | April 24th + 25th 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/11193341_10203417122103465_606580943755970410_n.jpg?resize=540%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
The vibes were ebbing and flowing in full effect as hundreds of heady Coloradoans filed into the massive venue at Cervante’s Masterpiece Ballroom last weekend. Sonic Bloom, one of, if not THE most loved CO festival of them all, will soon be upon us, and there was nothing more fitting to get you hyped for […]
![[New Music Monday] Manchester Producer Frameworks Releases Newest LP, Tides](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Earlier this week I decided to give a new album, Tides, that seemed to be taking over my social networking feeds, a listen. Matt Brewer is producing under the name Frameworks, and bringing his own complex instrumental and melodic compositions all the way from Manchester. The rising producer recently dropped his newest album, Tides, in […]