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![Basslantic City: Another Bassnectar Family Gathering comes to the Northeast [DroolMode]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16797771_10155129364309301_7926555430856572186_o.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
Article by Lily Shoulberg The Bassnectar team is back at it with their latest reincarnation of the underground warehouse parties of the 90s, and this time they are finally blessing the Northeast with a specially curated event for the first time since Basscenter 2014 at Madison Square Garden! Basslantic City: Another Bassnectar Family Gathering is […]
![Calling to the Wolfpack: What The Fest just delivered their first lineup tease of 2017 [DroolMode]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/wtf2.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
It may only be February but we’ve already got June planned out – we’re heading back to Dufur, Oregon for the year’s best kept festival, and this is your official invitation. A typical day at What the Festival will see you roaming over 200 lush acres that run through an Illuminated Forest, a giant disco […]
Electronic
Euphoric Styles have kept the masses satisfied for years by producing some of the best music events in Santa Cruz and beyond. they’re heading into the new year strongly with Santa Cruz Music Festival, happening February 18th and 19th. Names like TroyBoi, G Jones and Louis the Child have us stoked enough already, but for […]
![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. […]
![Catch Protextor at this year’s Sound on Sound Festival + Peep these top three tracks [SoS Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/protextor.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
A backbone provides the structure necessary for a body to grow, a pillar the support that a building needs to stand. Calling a white emcee from Iowa the backbone of the scene is perhaps too bold a statement but Adam Protextor has undoubtedly made himself a pillar of the Austin hip hop community. With his […]
![Artist Spotlight from Sound on Sound 2016: Our Top Three Tracks From Hip-Hop artist Anya [SoS Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/anya.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
I first saw Anya opening up for Aesop Rock two years ago, and I can still remember how her performance filled my bones and soul. She engaged the crowd in a genuine way, in one memorable moment she teased us over our shared bitterness due to failed love, and the bass in her beats drove […]
Electronic
Coming out of the deep Southern city of Houston, Day for Night just blew our fucking minds. Albeit Day for Night hadn’t been on our radar last year, we took one look at the impeccable lineup and sealed our plans to be in H-Town the weekend of December 17th-18th. The return of Irish-born producer Aphex Twin was […]
Festival Coverage
October 22nd marks the beginning of the fifth installment of The Growlers festival, “Beach Goth”. This year The Growlers (or whoever does the actual planning for the two day SoCal event) put together an unprecedented lineup geared toward bonafide music snobs, like me. That being said, there really is nothing goth or extra beachy about […]
East Coast
It’s not often a music festival comes along that is fueled by compassion and community and is driven by art and transformation. However, the folks over at Essential Productions have continued to put together collections of artists, musicians and creators in a way that has positively grown into a grand transformational event. Resonance Music and […]
Festival Coverage
Right along the historic Pacific Highway 101, looking over the beautiful coast of Southern California, KAABOO proudly makes its way back for another year of festivities in sunny San Diego. Boasting not only a wide variety of musical talents ranging from rock to electronic dance and just about everything in between, KAABOO is not to […]