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![A Gem & Jam To Remember: My highlights of Gem & Jam Music Festival 2020 [Review]](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1514525253161-7a46d19cd819?auto=format&fit=crop&w=1200&q=80)
Electronic
For over a decade, Gem and Jam Music Festival has become home to countless artists, performers, live painters and attendees from across the country, all bringing with them smiles and memories that weave themselves into G&J’s legacy forever. This world-renowned festival is a must attend for so many reasons. Take a road trip with your […]
![Bass, Dads, Shlump AND MORE… at Denver’s The Black Box | December 15th, 2017 [Event Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bigchocolate.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
I went down to the Black Box on Friday to see Meska, Mtn Menace, Big Chocolate, and Shlump. They have a chill outdoor area with lots of seating and a huge Chris Dyer painting on the wall. Inside they have vendors, a pool table and a lounge with djs all night, that happens to be […]
![Top 5 Sets at Elements Lakewood :: A Supersonic Bass Camp [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Wax-Future-1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
Elements Lakewood just set the bar for the whole summer. Everything about the inaugural fest was on point. The venue, music, stage production, art, games, workshops, fireworks, even the roller disco rink and pirate ship, and still so much more managed to mesh together into a perfect weekend of fun filled vibes from each early […]
East Coast
“Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” -Hunter S. Thompson Come take a ride around one man’s sonic universe you won’t want to come back from. Known to conjure […]
![Pretty Lights Drops Season Two Premiere of the Episodic Tour, August 4 + 5 [Event Preview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/17621929_10212669224228316_5816800068640827314_o.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
As if the peak Summer weekend of August 4 + 5 could be any more filled to the brim with dope sauce, the hailed Pretty Lights just announced Episode 6 of 2016’s continuation of Direct Vincent Smith’s Episodic Tour. The two day gathering has just served up the most deliciously magical and heaven sent gift […]
East Coast
Forget the winter and start thinking about grilling – BangOn! just announced their first ever camping festival for Memorial Day weekend. Elements Music & Art Festival – Lakewood seems like the best way to kick off the 2017 festival season. With a stacked phase one announcement and just a short 2.5-hour drive from NYC this […]
![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 […]
![[Show Review] Tipper at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado | May 16th, 2015](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redrocks.jpg?resize=600%2C355&ssl=1)
Electronic
So many tippies. From the moment I arrived to the lot, there were a bunch of familiar faces. As expected with a set date for this party announced almost a year ago, (flyers got passed out after Tipper’s set at Sonic Bloom last year), I ran into people I’d met from across the country all seemingly […]
Festival Coverage
Summer Solstice occurs when the sun is at the highest point in the sky, making it the longest day of the year. The extra sunlight has been celebrated throughout history with a variety of rituals involving dance, music and fire. Sonic Bloom encompasses those rituals into its existence as the nation’s premier summer solstice electronic festival, taking place June 19-22 at American […]