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Electronic
During this year’s South By South West Music and Networking Conference in Austin,TX we had the chance to kick back with one of the Bay area’s most talented music producers, Nicholas Alvarado, aka Pumpkin. In addition to talking about the craziness of SXSW, his origins in the burner scene and what was next up on […]
![[Tech] Big Week for Gamers as E3 Returns to LA | June 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/e33.jpg?resize=468%2C263&ssl=1)
Social Culture
E3 wrapped up last week in LA, announcing the hottest new video games coming from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo & their third party developers. Sony announced 25 ‘Free to Play’ games for the next 12 months, a Ratchet and Clank movie, Playstation TV (their mini console that can play PSVita & PS network games, along with […]
![Scootenanny! A Uniquely Texas Experience [June 14, 2014]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/scootenanny-e1403023948697.jpg?resize=500%2C188&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
SCOOTENANNY will forever hold a special place in my heart. This day-long event, which boasted some of the best up-and-coming musicians Texas has to offer, featured a full spectrum of indie rock & dance acts that surely won’t be beat for a long time to come (or at least until the Fall, in this crazy […]
![[Festival Review] Our Top Notch Under-the-Radar Artists of Wakarusa Music Festival 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wakar.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
To say the magic of an organic festival scene was alive and well atop Mulberry Mountain would be a severe understatement, as the weekend I spent at this year’s Wakarusa Music Festival felt as though an entire alternate universe had opened up; the land almost beams with remnants from a past time. Wakarusa successfully embodied […]
![[Artist Interview] Roger Sellers | Red Bull Sound Select in Austin,TX](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/rogersellers2.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
By Brooke Stalker Turning the turbulent tide of a crestfallen crowd is no doubt an upstream… shit man, more like an up-waterfall battle. And yet Roger Sellers was able to do so. Executing a performance with such finesse, he produced a momentous vibe. Transforming the dazed crowd into a mass of utter jubilation. This feat […]