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![[Photo Gallery] Winter Music Conference 2014 in Miami | Ram Records + SMOG vs Firepower](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SmogVsFirepower-30.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
Winter Music Conference in Miami, or WMC for short, is the biggest electronic music conference in the world. For nearly 30 years, thousands of music aficionados, media agents and music lovers come to the white sands of South Beach to celebrate the latest and greatest advances in the industry. As if this weren’t enough to […]
![[Photo Gallery] KAYTRANADA Makes His Dallas Debut | Dallas,TX at Trees August 17, 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DSC08810.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
KAYTRANADA, yes all capitals, is one of the most talked about names on the electronic bass scene right now. The Montreal beat maker, whose real name is Kevin Celestin, first blew up when he put his own spin to Janet Jackson’s ‘If’, creating an upbeat and irresistibly grooving track. Like the flames of a wild […]
![Mad Gods | Tastemakers of Originality [Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/madgods.jpg?resize=536%2C260&ssl=1)
Social Culture
Serving as a center of inspiration for blooming artists and under-the-radar designers, the burgeoning talents within the city limits of Austin hardly stay in the underground for long. Mad Gods is one such creative venture, a lifestyle brand that produces some of the dopest and most mesmerizing tshirt designs we’ve come across. While we can’t […]
Electronic
Resonant Frequency is the combined kinetic energy of four electro-soul producers: Diamond Cuts (Vincent Seidl), Lando (Landone Reichle), Local Color (Ben Slade) and Focal Point (Preston Flynn). The future-funk quartet decided to combine their livetronica music production talent last November when they played the same house party. “At first we planned on touring together as […]
East Coast
CYM’s TOP 20 US FESTIVALS OF 2014 Although festival season has already hit the ground running, we came up with this list of fests you can catch just in time for summer! Take note of the fact that these are only upcoming festivals in the US that made our list; there is a whole other […]
![[Show Review] Dita Von Teese at House of Blues in Dallas,TX | April 02, 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ddddita.jpg?resize=580%2C270&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
The art of burlesque has been popular for decades, but its peak was from 1900’s – 1940’s. During this time, there were hundreds of touring burlesque shows, and the performers were revered almost as celebrities. There are few current names that come to mind when on the subject of burlesque, and Dita Von Teese is the […]
![[Photo Gallery] TesseracT at Club Dada in Dallas,TX 04.5.2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tesseract2.jpg?resize=315%2C238&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
British progressive metal band TesseracT has been thrashing stages across the US since their tour started in late March and have already left a sold out string of shows left behind. We were more than stoked to get some shots of this awesome band when they came to Dallas’ Club Dada. The powerful energy that […]
![Wave Racer + Trippy Turtle in Dallas,TX | April 01,2014 [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/triiip.jpg?resize=600%2C315&ssl=1)
Electronic
These two names may not be familiar to you as of yet, but we aren’t very far into 2014 either. Slated to take over the scene this year are Australia’s own, electronic producers Wave Racer, actual name Thomas Purcell, and Trippy Turtle, whose name is unknown (who doesn’t love an enigma?). Rocking similar poppy, upbeat […]
Festival Coverage
I’ve been told not to get in cars with strange men my entire life, but I’m also a rebel with “Almost Famous” dreams; therefore, I’ve broken this rule a time or two in the name of live music and journalism. I was particularly glad that I made this rebel move last weekend for a road-trip […]
Electronic
Heralded as one of Dallas’ electronic sweet spots for over a decade, the Lizard Lounge was in full effect on Friday night when Minnesota, real name Christian Bauhofer, dropped in for a night during his Collective Identity tour. His diverse production style defies classification, and puts a new standard on the electronic scene as a […]