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Festival Coverage
As you turn off U.S. Route 285 South and embark on the descent of Country Road 126, the scenery likens to a clip from the docuseries Planet Earth. The winding road borders the side of the glimmering North Fork South Platte River; rolling meadows showcase a palette of flourishing earth tones, towering pines set below […]
![Psychs Peak Music & Camping Festival Returns to Pine, CO August 27-29 [Festival Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PsychsPeak_Color_Logo-scaled-1.png?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1){kind=logo}
Live events
Chalked up to be one of the best weekends of the year by past attendees, Psychs Peak is an intimate music and camping festival taking place in the beautiful forests of Pine, Colorado, just an hour from the Mile High City. Happening August 27-29 over the Sturgeon full moon and a partial lunar eclipse, this […]
![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 […]
Live Music Coverage
When you’re heading to Denver, Colorado for a psychedelic convention hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), chances are you’re planning on having a pretty great time. But what about a psychedelic convention who are simultaneously hosting a music benefit concert with The Flaming Lips? Top it off with a world class lineup […]
Funk
East coast funk-hop aficionados Lettuce are blowing plumes of smoke through every stop on the current leg of their US tour. Fresh off the tracks of their 2022 release Unify, the six piece future funk band headlined Denver Comes Alive earlier this month at the Mission Ballroom. As one of the most vibrant music scenes […]
![Denver’s Freshest New Band Midnight.Blue Soothes Souls with Debut Album “Breathe” [Review + Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/midnight.bluepromo.jpeg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Album Review
Music has always been about that feeling for me. You know, that undeniable, unshakeable, and unbreakable vibration of sound – specifically the ones curated to connect and express. The type of sound that shatters all egos and ignites that palpable harmony of kindness and unison. Those compilations and works of audible art that truly touch […]
![Shift Thursday at Cervantes The Other Side: From Behind the Lens with Jessica Dnea Imagery [Gallery]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/tripzyleary-5-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
I brought my camera out to Denver’s Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom Shift Thursday on August 18th to check out The Galactic Effect, Tripzy Leary, Pheuzen (Treavor from Desert Dwellers), and Mystic Grizzly. First, to cool down a warm August evening, I caught Neptvn and Dimethyldreamz in the first rotation of the classic dual DJ Silent Disco on […]
![RADO brings Groovy Jam-Rock to Colorado Mountain Towns [Tour Update]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/270332503_307208008080429_5296409572491057288_n.jpeg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Funk
Based in Denver, RADO synchronistically fuses Jam, Groove, Rock, Funk, and a little bit of everything in between to create a genre-mashing conglomerate of styles that gift something for everyone. Whether it’s a high-speed four-to-the-floor psychedelic jam, or a low bpm groovy, funk section, RADO is sure to keep the bodies moving. Cultivated from the […]
Electronic
Party Guru Productions is back after a drastic show pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation! The SerotonINN Sound Series, which is being featured during Memorial Day weekend, is fully packed with three days of sound from eclectic electronic musicians. Still following Covid-19 protocols, the event takes place at the Double Tree Hilton hotel in […]
Festival Coverage
Tonight marks the end of the eighth annual WinterWonderGrass. Each year for WinterWonderGrass Steamboat Ski Resort becomes a straight jam for three days. Three large tent stages and a mountain-front main stage are stacked each year with renowned bluegrass and string artists. A variety of local breweries and food trucks set up at the fest […]