Better late than never- the first installment of 2012's RPMcast is finally here! Listen Now!

If you're new to this delightful chaos, simply click the "SIGN UP" button on the menu at the top of the screen, fill out your information, and tune all your instruments. (That last bit is not really required.) On your profile page, make sure you click the "Participate in 2012" checkbox (it should already be checked).

If you're returning, first go to your profile page and click on "Edit Profile."

Read on to the next page for more detailed intructions and frequent questions! Graphics are from 2011, but it's pretty much the same.

The Jukebox Uploader is active so you can put your 2011 songs in place!

The 2011 Jukebox is ready to go! Help us load it with your music, so everyone can check it out. It’s easy and fun:
1. Log in to http://RPMChallenge.com, as usual
2. Go to http://rpmchallenge.com/cgi-bin/jukebox.cgi
3. Edit your band info, if necessary, then click on “2011 Album”
4. Change the album name, upload your tracks and album art, and voila! You’re in the Jukebox!

There are more detailed instructions & guidelines after the jump, and we HIGHLY encourage you to take a minute to look them over, as there are many useful tips, explanations & features explained therein!

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. Maybe they don’t have “Grapes of Wrath” or “Abbey Road” at the end of the month, or maybe they do—but that’s not the point. The point is they get busy and stop waiting around for the muse to appear. Get the gears moving. Do something. You can’t write 1,700 words a day and not get better.

Don't wait for inspiration - taking action puts you in a position to get inspired. You'll stumble across ideas you would have never come up with otherwise, and maybe only because you were trying to meet a day’s quota of (song)writing. Show up and get something done, and invest in yourself and each other.