 how rpm changed my life
on the eve of the second annual RPM challenge, musicians reflect on how the process of writing and recording an album in a single month influenced the way they work. read more
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 This is the challenge: record an album in 28 days, just because you can.
That's 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead. put it to tape.
It's a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) where writers challenge each other to write 1,700 words a day for 30 days, or the great folks over at February Album Writing Month (fawm.org), who encourage artists to write 14 new songs in February. read more
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 What if you recorded the best song of your life?
The RPM Challenge would like you to do exactly that. It doesn't appear to be a contest, but rather a "challenge" to artists to produce ten songs or 35 minutes of material during the month of February. read more
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 Here it comes again: The Wire, down in Portsmouth, is yet again sponsoring the RPM CHALLENGE, which asks bands to sack up and record an entire album all in the month of February (10 songs or 35 minutes, whichever comes first). Last year, 220 bands signed up for the challenge, 165 came through with a full album, and 1600 songs were sent out into the world to live freely among the common man (sorry, we’ve been reading too much fantasy). read more
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The RPM Challenge for 2007 will launch at the beginning of February. In the doldrums of winter last year, 220 bands signed up for this artistic challenge and 165 successfully completed albums were submitted, all written and recorded within 28 days. At the end of it, a citywide, 5-venue listening party rocked Portsmouth with genres spanning electronica, indie, roots, jazz, noise, experimental, rock, and everything in between. Projects ranged from the conceptual to the straightforward, creatively fulfilling the requirements. All of the tracks are still being shared on the website. read more
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 Pitchfork is one of the world's most respected online music journalism sites, and here's the wonderful article they published about RPM on March 17, 2006.
Go to the Pitchfork article
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 WMUR-TV did a nice piece about RPM on their show, NH Chronicle, combining original footage from the March 9 celebration with material from the RPM Challenge video that was shown at The Music Hall, as well as using stills and music from RPM. The piece originally aired March 27, 2006.
Click here to watch the segment
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