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![All Aboard the Squabtrain! SunSquabi Announces Fall Odyssey Tour, Kicks off in Texas [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-18-at-4.09.17-PM.png?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
The Squabtrain is in full force and it is your turn to hop aboard. With the announcement of their fall Odyssey tour dates, we have even more reasons to be stoked for this coming season. This time around, the SunSquabi boys are coming out with a full production crew tour and lots of new funkalicious […]
![Blooming Brighter Than We Ever Have: The 11th Annual Sonic Bloom in Rye, Colorado [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/13433094_10153714643662253_4978510564185505997_o.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
This year’s 11th Annual Sonic Bloom was an atmosphere of pure intimacy, and having attended the last four years of SB, I can confidently say it was the best yet. Founder Jamie Janover quoted the festival as having formed ‘…into a unified field, bringing everything into one unified structure – what makes it great is […]
Festival Coverage
Tickets | Event page Sonic Bloom is just around the corner, and they’re bringing talent from all over the world for their 11th anniversary. Artists we’ve been patiently waiting to witness will finally reveal what they’ve got in store for us Sonic Bloomers, and the wait is nearly over! Sonic Bloom’s unique curation of art, blissful live painters, musicians […]
![Throwdown of the Ages: The Gaslamp Killer, Nosaj Thing, Adam Deitch at Cervantes Masterpiece [Show Review] | May 6th, 2016](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160506-_3444-BV.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Last Friday night Denver’s beloved Cervantes’ Masterpiece served up a hefty dose of hometown love, and we’re STILL buzzing with plenty of reason to back it up. In addition to being a dual venue night, both stages were hosting epic scales of supreme talent. From the eccentric bass freak The Gaslamp Killer on the main […]
![[Festival Review + Photo Gallery] Musical Highlights of Arise Music Festival 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DSC02164.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
This year’s Arise Music Festival was one for the books – by far the only festival I’ve experienced with such a solid fusion of music lovers from all backgrounds. Everyone in attendance from young to old were in high spirits and ready to Arise and Shine by making their weekend the best it could be; […]
![[Festival Review] McDowell Mountain Music Festival May 27th-29th, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/robertdelong.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
McDowell Mountain Music Festival has been bringing music and supporting the downtown Phoenix community for the last 12 years. It is Arizona’s first and only festival that gives 100% of its ticket sales to local charities, and this year, McDowell Mountain Music Festival is supporting Phoenix Children’s Hospital and United Methodist Outreach Ministries. UMOM has […]
![[Festival Review] Our Cosmic Journey Beneath the Pisces Moon: Serenity Gathering 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10155349_1022054951156635_3310036425290119788_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
Serenity Gathering was a weekend flowing with inspiration and beauty. The drive up to La Jolla Indian Reservation from San Diego, California started the trip off on the perfect foot. Winding up into the mountains of the Puma Valley, myself and assistant writer Josh Krol drove through winding miles of scenery, including an orange farm […]
![[Festival Review] Finding Ourselves in The Desert | Gem and Jam Music Festival February 6th – 8th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/unnamed-9.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
As we made our descent upon the old desert town of Tucson, Lauren and I were riddled with uncontainable excitement. Though it’d be my second year of the festival and Lauren’s first, our levels on the stoked factor were just as equally off the charts. After 12 hours of driving, the sight of a landscape […]
Festival Coverage
It seems to make more and more sense to us that Arizona is the perfect place to kick off festival season proper. After covering Gem and Jam Festival earlier this February, there’s another AZ fest that is calling our names to return to the desert. Taking place in downtown Phoenix, McDowell Mountain Music Festival is […]
![[Photo Gallery] Bass Physics and Proper Motion – A Sold Out Night at the Bluebird Theater | Denver, CO November 26, 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10405469_1533058530268422_2852514008993616922_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
All photos shot by Lauren Pinkney of Lo Motion Photography.