M Pire Magazine Covers NAMM 2014

NAMM, which stands for the "National Association of Music Merchants", is an association built to help music product makers, music retail owners, and the like, to connect and network with each other. This year, I was able to represent for M Pire Magazine and have the opportunity to attend the NAMM show and see what it's really about, and boy, was I taken aback by the activity!

The weekend-long show took place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, which I discovered was right by Disneyland. During my attendance, I witnessed concerts on multiple stages, indoors and outdoors, great food, great scenery, and great folks. There were literally thousands of exhibitors there, on multiple levels of the convention center. As I was there for one day, I unfortunately wasn't able to get around to all the exhibitors and concerts, but what I did come across was rather unique. Among some of the exhibitors were retailers for audio equipment, guitars, drums, pianos, classical instruments, keyboards, music schools, and even some new instruments I can't even name! What was cool, was that spectating artists and musicians were allowed to play most of the instruments that were on display:

The photo below won the popularity contest on my facebook. The Crush drum set below changed color, which was super awesome. You'll get to see the clip in the video interviews being released on February 15th, 2014, alongside the February issue, where you'll find the rest of our coverage of the NAMM show...

Speaking of interviews, we were able to get a hold of a couple of exhibitors for a video interview. One of the exhibitors include the pro audio/combo division of, you guessed it, Yamaha. In that interview, you'll get the first-hand scoop of the new synths and monitors they have coming out, so stay tuned for our February issue to find out all that info!

In the meantime, check out our November 2013 issue below and subscribe to our magazine on page 2 at the bottom to stay updated on our new issue:

M Pire and NAMM 2014

Here's a brief update on what's going on with M Pire...

We're covering the 2014 NAMM Show.

Yup. THEE official National Association of Music Merchants. For those who aren't familiar with the NAMM show, it's kind of like the "New York Comic Con" of the music world. It's a trade show that connects artists, musicians, and professionals of music products, sound/lighting, music tech, etc. There will be guest appearances, concerts, and other activities, and M Pire will be there to cover the show for the blog and for the upcoming february issue.

Stay tuned for more updates. In the meantime, check out our November issue below!

Looking for Writers for Health and Wellness in M Pire Mag

We're finally in the beginning phases of preparing for the release of the February 2014 issue, and we realized...

We have no writers for our Health and Wellness section!

If you are a blogger or a writer who's profession or niche is in health, wellness, spiritual well being, fitness, food and recipes, and the like, and you feel you have tons of information you can contribute to our magazine, in exchange for promoting your blog or site, feel free to send us an email at info@m-piremagazine.com or awebb@m-piremagazine.com. We're looking for writers who can submit exclusive articles on a regular basis (at most quarterly).

In the meantime, check out our latest issue below!

Upcoming Open Mic Events

I don't know if I told you guys, but at the beginning of every month we always update our Events page on the M Pire Magazine site to include events for that month. If you are in the NYC area and are looking for different events to showcase your music, poetry, comedy, etc, definitely check out these upcoming December events here.

Also, if you would like to post your event on our site (it can be anywhere in the world), you can submit your PDF file to us and we will post your event on our site for that one month for a $20 flat fee, whether it's a one-time event or an ongoing event. If you have an ongoing event and would like to keep it up there on our site for more than one month, we can keep it up there for $15/month. If interested, shoot an email to awebb@m-piremagazine.com

Check out our latest November 2013 issue below!

M Pire Mag - Our Plans for the Feb 2014 Issue

Since we've gone on this "theme" train for the past couple issues, we figured we might as well keep it going. My partner and I were going down the list of ideas and themes we can cover for the February 2014 issue, and we both finally agreed on one.

We're going to spend this coming issue featuring various yearly festivals that happen, not just in NYC, but now all across the country. We're close to NYC so we were able to access everything that was going on there, but this time we're finally going to expand to cater to artists on a national scale (and soon, on a global scale). When we mean various festivals, we mean music festivals (like the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival that we featured in our November issue), film festivals, conventions, fashion shows, book festivals for our writers, etc. We expect this issue to be one of our most explosive so far...

If any of you know about any festivals that happen in your area, feel free to comment and share them with us, and we'll be happy to look into getting them in the mag!

If you have not already, check out our November 2013 issue below that was released last week:

Exclusive Video Interview with Comedian Shang Forbes

Hey guys,

One more blog post. I wanted to highlight our exclusive video interview with our cover feature for the November issue of M Pire Magazine, comedian Shang Forbes. Check it out below, and Also check out our full November 2013 issue below the video!

The M Pire Mag November 2013 Issue is Here

We followed through with our theme for this issue, which revolves around Comedy. We actually did so to break the assumption that we're just a magazine for music. We're a magazine that promotes all types of art. Anyways, we managed to get a hold of and interview our cover feature, Shang Forbes. You will find our video interview of him, and others, inside the new issue below.

Among other comedy features are Lil Rel, and some of New York's hottest comedy clubs where you can showcase your talent, such as Eastville Comedy Club, Stand Up New York, and we also did an interview with Al Martin, who owns New York Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, and Greenwich Village Comedy Club. Pretty meaty stuff!

And for our Hip Hop artists out there, we also got a hold of Wes Jackson, who is the founder of the Brooklyn Bodega, which hosts its annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. We were able to cover their recent event which was the Red Bull Sound Select Presents New York at the Knitting Factory, and were able to interview one of the performing artists, Kiah Victoria.

And for those in the Fashion world, we have an exclusive article with blogger Kiersten Heath with her trendy favorites for fall (speaking of which, we're discussing Fashion to possibly be our next theme for February 2014, so stay tuned)...

We have many other useful surprises in our issue so feel free to dive in and see what we have for you: