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![Little Dragon Casts A Spell Over Austin | April 26th 2017 [Live Music Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/unnamed-5.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Little Dragon breathed the fire of life into the packed crowd at Stubb’s Amphitheater. The entire show was a ritual, as if a spell had been cast over the packed audience by Yukimi Nagano – Little Dragon’s foxy Swedish frontwoman. Yukimi danced with a gourd shaped tambourine in hand and chanted out notes of pure […]
![Musical Highlights from Scoremore’s JMBLYA in Austin, TX | May 6th, 2017 [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jmblya.png?resize=600%2C315&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
JMBLYA is an event that I look forward to every year, as the youthful staff at ScoreMore consistently puts together an impressive lineup of some of the hottest names in hip-hop and EDM. This year, the event sold out with an astonishing 25,000 tickets in advance, making it the third largest concert of 2017. The […]
![Tycho at Stubb’s in Austin, TX | May 12th, 2017 [Photo Gallery]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tycho5.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Indie
Tycho serenaded a mesmerized and jubilant crowd at Stubb’s this past Friday, and photographer Ryan McCoy was able to capture the night for us. If you have the chance, do not miss Tycho on this tour! This run will be accompanied by the band’s new lighting designer, Charlie Botwin, and is even more visually delectable […]
![Old Settlers Music Festival Celebrates 30 Years In Grand Style [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cover-photo-pretty-good-shot-1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Festival Coverage
Old Settlers Music Festival celebrated 30 years of good times with a weekend unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Old Settlers offers a gourmet samplings of the best singer songwriters, jam bands, bluegrass and Americana you can find – bringing in Grammy winning Los Lobos from LA to headline along with locally grown Austin heroes like […]
![Gorillaz Invade Austin City Limits 2017: Lineup drop includes Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chance the Rapper, Vulfpeck and more [#DroolMode]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/acl17-website-lineup-poster5417.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Austin City Limits has been a big deal for a while now, bringing out the big guns year after year for the fall concert event at Austin’s Zilker Park. But late last night, I heard some serious news: ACL announced the 2017 lineup – and Gorillaz have top billing. Having recently dropped their newest album, […]
![Why? A Bizarre, Incredible Evening in Austin, TX at the Mohawk | April 5th, 2017 [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cover-photo.png?resize=600%2C315&ssl=1)
Indie
Yoni Wolf aka Why? aka the pioneering alternative rapper multi-instrumentalist from Berkeley brought the Mohawk into his vision of the future last Wednesday. The show was in support of Why?’s new album Moh Lhean, an absolutely beautiful and wholly original tour de force from the matured musician’s mind. On stage Yoni stood behind the most […]
![Digging into Euphoria Music Festival: Why We Keep Coming Back [Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/euphoria1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
As we inch closer to the 6th installment of the season’s best festival, Euphoria, it’s become a beautiful experience to watch this gathering grow exponentially in the past few years. With the countdown underway, we felt there was no better time than to get the lowdown from the man himself, EMF executive producer Mitch Morales. […]
![Look at the Love We Found: January 2017 Badfish Dates in Texas [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/badfish_newgraphic.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Live Music Coverage
Sometimes, you just feel lucky. Like when you find out that Badfish, the world’s greatest tribute to Sublime, is touring through your city this month. For me, that’s January 19 at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. For you, it is probably January 22nd at Empire Control Room in Austin, Texas. Maybe it is the […]
![Inaugural ‘Sound On Sound’ Fest Plays On [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC7796.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Forget ACL, Sound on Sound is injecting its imagination into the Texas festival scene. Last weekend I had a truly magical experience, completely carefree… until the event was suddenly evacuated. We’ll speak more on that later, but first up of course, is the music. The fairground was small enough to walk in 20 minutes and […]
![Euphoria Music Festival Announces First Lineup Wave Like Whoa! Austin, Texas, April 6-9, 2017 [Festival Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unnamed.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Euphoria Music Festival just announced its first wave of artists for its 6th year returning to Carson Creek Ranch April 6th-9th, 2017, in Austin, Texas, and we could not be more stoked. House heater Alesso, the beloved Pretty Lights Live Band, Young Thug, Bob Moses, The Floozies, The Knocks, Papadosio, Tennyson, Unlike Pluto, The Funk […]