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| {AN}EeL | Experimental | It was nice working on this during a capital W winter here in Cottage Country ~ | Album | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| $ense | Rock | #17 for us. Only 2 are political. All are musical! | EP | Portsmouth, NH | Maine | USA | LINK |
| 69' Frankenstein | Spoken Word | This album is a narrative surf rock album, inspired by surf rock legends Deadbolt. Been wanting to make this for a long time with my friend who is a hilarious storyteller. I played all instrument andwrote the music. Taylor wrote the stories and narrated them. | EP | Hendersonville | North Carolina | USA | LINK |
| A Relative Term | Pop | Matt (Lost Principal) plays bass, and Jarrett Osborn plays drums on A Step Behind, and Dan on bass for Don't Let Her Down | EP | Buffalo | New York | USA | LINK |
| Aaron Parys | Electronic | Mix of Different types of Music...Dark Ambient as well as some upbeat track's ...using a combination of Modular and Classic Synth’s during this Production of this Song .. A really Fun and Elaborate Patch and Combination of different machines .. Along with the Different Drum Combinations | Album | Milton | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| ABSTRXN | Pop | Like our previous albums, this one tells a story. We'll leave it up to the listener to interpret. Enjoy! 100% of all sales/streaming/merch proceeds (for this and ALL ABSTRXN music) will be donated to Humane Indiana, Northwest Indiana's premiere animal rescue: www.humaneindiana.org | Album | Chicago | Illinois | USA | LINK |
| acoustic | Singer-Songwriter | Did the EP. Was a tougher RPM inspiration wise this time around. Glad I at least did this. | EP | Northfield | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Acoustic Angels-Frank & Jackie Gesek | Rock | 11 Track CD “Through the Lens” home studio with DP-11 | Album | Lebanon | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| AcousticAngels-FrankandJackieGesek | Guitar | Original CD with 11 songs of views through a camera lens | Album | Lebanon | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| acoustichewy | Indie | This marks my 20th consecutive RPM Challenge success! Somehow, I've managed to pull this off every year since the very first one in 2006. It's been quite an incredible 20 years, and I'm certainly glad to have a rich trail of RPM albums to mark the time. I've been looking forward to the double-decade year for a while now, and needless to say this wasn't exactly the album I was expecting for it. Then again, it never is. | Album | Eugene | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| Adam Rubenstein | Indie | Scrambled in the last 48 hrs. | Single | Cincinnati | Ohio | USA | LINK |
| agary bock | Guitar | Utilizing glitch and synth effects with guitar | Single | Buffalo | New York | USA | LINK |
| AGEING BONES | Experimental | George Robertson on guitar and Glenn Nuotio with Garageband, sharing an online folder to explore and share sloppy sounds of mistakes and first takes. It might make you move a little. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| AKLLASQA | Metal | What if the Inca had destroyed the Spanish conquistadores? This is that story. Kind of an hommage to my Inca blood. Lyrics are in Quechua although probably not very good Quechua... I tried my best | Album | Montréal | Quebec | Canada | LINK |
| Al Bee | Electronic | After last year's RPM effort went in a more pop orientated direction after some of my experiments failed, this EP is much more off the wall musically. Blissfully imperfect in places, and in others downright amateurish, it certainly tries to push the boundaries of musical keys, musical rules and concepts of rhythm. Perhaps it is an unacceptable mess but it is definitely an attempt at abstract musical impressionism. | EP | South Molton | | UK | LINK |
| Alex Matchneer | Synth | I made an eclectic collection of songs and compositions that has something for everyone. Interesting rhythms, simple and nice melodies, lots of dynamics. I made it by spending the first half of the month generating as many ideas as possible, and selecting the best of ideas and refining them for the second half of the month. It's special to me because it's the most amount of music I've ever composed in a short amount of time and yet contains some material that's better than other ideas I've spent months on. | Album | Brooklyn | New York | USA | LINK |
| Alexander Lane | Electronic | Three songs for a live set at NYCR's Synth night meetup. Most of the songs are made on the Synthstrom Deluge, with some extra sounds from the 0-coast and OP-1. | EP | Brooklyn | New York | USA | LINK |
| Ali Kilpatrick | Guitar | RPM #19, another 7 tracks of post-rock (ish?)/ambient/weird experimental bits. Best on headphones. Is it getting dark, or just me? | Album | Edinburgh | | UK | LINK |
| Alias | Singer-Songwriter | I wrote and recorded these four songs in the last two weeks of February. It felt really nice to just create and not care too much about the outcome. I like creating without any pressure, which is why I love the RPM challenge. The title track was recorded at the Vinterstudio session with Jake Nichol. | EP | Petty Harbour | NL | Canada | LINK |
| AlienXXX | Electronic | As usual, covers several and disjointed genres: Heavy Metal, Jazz, Electronica, Ambient... Very happy that this year it includes collabs with 3 other artists and my first attempt at integrating vocals into a track. As always, there were whole other worlds to explore... if we only had the time!... | Album | Slough | | UK | LINK |
| Allison Walsh | Folk | A 15 year old musican who submitted her first song to the RPM challenge two years ago. Missed the challenge last year so she committed to finishing and recording 2 songs this year. Very proud to have accomplished her goal this year! | Single | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| am/fm dreams | Indie | Our 18th consecutive RPM album since 2008. More "Sullen anthems for the aging rock star" | Album | Mount Pearl - St . John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| amelia | Jazz | I made a new year's resolution to make a new song each month with a Synthesizer V voicebank I hadn't used yet (of which there are several, I have a hoarding problem lol.) This song features Kasane Teto! I wanted to write something cute for Valentine's Day that wasn't a traditional love song. | Single | Fort Worth | Texas | USA | LINK |
| Amelia Wilcox | Pop | An anodyne (noun) is something that soothes, calms, or comforts. My aim for this project was to illustrate a healing journey. Less about feeling better from some acute situation, but more largely about the dialog that takes place within yourself while teasing out themes and habits that might be holding you back. I was really inspired by the idea of getting to talk face to face with my younger self, so the whole EP sort of grew out of that seed. | EP | Burlington | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Amnos | Dark | Dark R&B, Trap Soul, and Chill inspired album. | Album | Tigard | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| AMUC | Electronic | I had simulation theory and spaceships on the mind when I created this. The music is a mix of rigidly programmed electronica along with some improvised work (via knob-turning and crossbreeding audio files until something interesting happens). I did play a track in real-time on the keyboard as well - that was fun. The album title and art came from a strange dream I had. | Album | Worcester | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| and again...and again...and again...and again...and again... | Rock | this is 1 drum track given to several people to make their own song | Album | various | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Andrew Histand | Experimental | Amplified distorted cello soundscape. My first work as a solo artist. | Single | Baltimore | Maryland | USA | LINK |
| Angie Fights Crime | Pop | it all came together, i made exactly the album i wanted, and all my collaborators came through and crushed it | Album | Kansas City | Missouri | USA | LINK |
| Anna Siriano | Pop | This is my first EP. Really, my first time seeing any song to the finish line. It was a wonderful way to process and exploring music creation. I think I owe a lot to Kathleen Hanna who inspired me to start singing and making music years ago, and now I've finally done it! Also, thanks to Merrill Garbus of tune-yards whose advice (from her School of Song course) to keep saying yes to myself got me through this. | EP | Columbus | Ohio | USA | LINK |
| Anton Samford | Guitar | It was a fun record to make and I think it turned out good. | Album | Decatur | Georgia | USA | LINK |
| ANXIETY HOLE | Punk | ANXIETY HOLE | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Apollo Avatar | Electronic | Apollo Avatar's 2025 release Gateway was recorded live and mixed in February 2025. A journey through space, time and self | Album | Portland | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Apollo Avatar Voyage | Electronic | Ambient Space for Exploration | Album | | | Afghanistan | LINK |
| Apple Cinnamon | Folk | This is our fourth RPM challenge! This year was a very different challenge because we decided to record "off the floor" without recording each instrument separately. We recorded in a room in our shed that we have nicknamed The Peach Pit, so if you hear fire crackling, it is from the woodstove. This year was also an extra challenge because we were very short on time due to illness and vacation. We hope you enjoy the songs we created! | EP | conception bay south | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Apraxia | Singer-Songwriter | I made a really short, acoustic, folk-pop song this year. It was lyrics first, which came to me early one morning. It's maybe the most positive thing I've made and it's catchy too. I'm really proud of it! | Single | Tampa | Florida | USA | LINK |
| Astrosmash | Rock | We recorded 35 minutes of improvs in my basement, then I did a slight bit of production and overdubbing. It's raw sloppy heavy rock improv. | Album | Decatur | Georgia | USA | LINK |
| Atlanta Trash Collective | Indie | This "record" is 25 unfinished snippets of sections of one long project track of 5. This one track is the only one I have had time to start to try to dissect and upload in time, but there's a ton more on the other 4 tracks! | Album | Atlanta | Georgia | USA | LINK |
| Automated Birds | Folk | This track was recorded at Bannerman Brewing Co. by Jake Nicoll for the RPM Challenge VinterStüdio compilation. | Single | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| BackspinZX | Soundtrack | A lot of the music here was influenced by my participation in an ongoing Lancer TTRPG game with my friends, and a fair number of these tracks soundtrack events in the story of that campaign. | Album | Huntington Station | New York | USA | LINK |
| Balloon Marsupials | Experimental | This is our 19th RPM Challenge album!!! | Album | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | LINK |
| Beer For Your Father | Singer-Songwriter | I came up with this guitar part fairly quickly and then made the lyrics pretty loosely within the next day or so. I twiddled out the piano bit and made it sound cool by adding a lot of delay effects to it. I suppose the song is about how nothing is in this life is set in stone, but that also means nothing is inevitable, which is a good thing! I imagine it as being written for my daughter when she's old enough to understand. | Single | Iowa City | Iowa | USA | LINK |
| Ben Century | Rock | Started this track in 2016. I wanted to make a dark rock song, something like what the band HIM would make. I got frustrated with how it was turning out and shelved it. Over the years, I forgot about it. In late 2024, I found it and gave it another listen with fresh ears. I decided it was salvageable, and decided to do more work on it. I re-recorded a few parts, remixed it, edited some of my mistakes, and I'm absolutely pleased with how well it turned out! Better late than never! | Single | Tolstoi | Manitoba | Canada | LINK |
| Bertie Koller | Singer-Songwriter | I started recording the music for this album on 1 February with no idea where it was going to go. Got most of the music tracks down by the middle of the month, then one by one started writing and recording the lyrics. Finished recording on 20 February, and spent a few days listening and adjusting, then made the cover art on the 22nd/23rd. I feel like it came together pretty well. | Album | Whitefield | Maine | USA | LINK |
| BETAQR | Electronic | Haven't yet mastered "mastering," so would like to improve on that in the future, but I am happy with it so far! | Single | burlington | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Beyond the Limes | Singer-Songwriter | These are acoustic songs or song ideas, mainly from the last few years, that I'd had kicking around in notepads. I thought this was a good year to flesh them out. Very singer-songwriter. | EP | Brooklyn | New York | USA | LINK |
| BFK | Rock | A song about the sea, I grew up next to the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the time unaware of the dangers people put themselves in just to do everyday things. As we get older we realize we take so much for granted, especially after loss. | Single | Happy Valley Goose Bay | NL | Canada | LINK |
| biilborbillb | Metal | Black metal because we knew nothing about black metal | EP | San Francisco | California | USA | LINK |
| bikeseathead | Indie | Joe and Ron put together a new track for another RPM! | Single | sunnyvale | California | USA | LINK |
| Bipolarfleece | Electronic | Made on Dirtywave M8, I like it coz its pretty | Single | Auckland | | New Zealand | LINK |
| BJ Boyd | Guitar | This EP was recorded on a BOSS BR80 Micro Recorder (old school),writing and recording a track a week. It's a bit raw and unpolished in parts,. but that's often the way that I like to hear other musicians. The RPM Challenge was really about getting it done and getting it out there. Who knows, maybe these tracks will end up being demos or works in progress, or just stand alone as they are | EP | Adelaide | | Australia | LINK |
| Black Auks | Experimental | We jammed. We had fun. It was all virtual! We jam online weekly using Sonobus. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Black Dragon Fighting Society | Dance | A house/garage track made in Feb. I was looking to make something danceable and vibey | Single | Bristol | | UK | LINK |
| blanet nine | Punk | i wanted to finish and release some music so i joined the challenge. its a bit rough though | Single | | | South Africa | LINK |
| bleakmospheric | Metal | Metal Techno. Made on Ableton live. | Single | Stamford | Connecticut | USA | LINK |
| Bleepeater | Experimental | Inpspired by an auv3 DynaBit | EP | Dinas powys | | UK | LINK |
| Block Theory | Synth | Unfortunately, I ran out of time this month, I was hoping to get some vocals on with Synth V but couldn't complete it on time so it's only an instrumental. I'll try again for the REM challenge! | Single | Southampton | | UK | LINK |
| Blood Chimeras | Dark | First attempt at a new project. Our other band, Twin Goat, has been making studio-only music for over 20 years; we wanted to start something new that could be played live. Recorded fairly quickly during the last week and a half of February. | Single | Providence | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| Blossom | Soundtrack | | Album | Orchard Park | New York | USA | LINK |
| blunderspublik x dubble yew | Ambient | A dear ol' dad (46) and his son (13) collaborate via JummBox and FL Studio to create an EP for the 2025 RPM challenge. Dubble Yew created the original loops in JummBox, and then they worked together to add instrumentation and arrange them into longer songs. | EP | Guelph | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| BogStomp | Singer-Songwriter | Inspired by the countless stories of buyers remorse form the 2024 US election. Written from the point of view of someone whose face was indeed eaten by a leopard. | Single | San Francisco | California | USA | LINK |
| Bone Pond | Ambient | Recorded to cassette tape | EP | Buffalo | New York | USA | LINK |
| Borek Patty | Experimental | Acoustic guitar/lap steel songs to expose to the elements until nothing is left. I recorded it in my basement on dated gear surrounded by effect pedals and old guitars and amps. I try to breathe fresh air into a very familiar musical idiom, and may or may not succeed. Let me know! LOL | EP | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Bosey Joe | Synth | I said “yes” to each musical impulse without upfront editorial thinking. It was really fun and freeing! | Album | Concord | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Brad Fielder | Blues | Topical, disjointed Blues and deconstructed folk structures | Album | Norman | Oklahoma | USA | LINK |
| Brandon Brooks | Indie | I wrote this for my 2nd February Album Writing Month. It's the final part in a trilogy of albums I started last year called House On The Hill (Short Stories III). It's a cold, wintery singer-songwriter album about loss, grief, and getting through it. | Album | Kingston | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Bread Clip & John-Boy | Indie | Split EP recorded on four track; made with joy. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Brian J. Wood | Rock | I started doing the RPM challenge in the first year of its conception, 2006. The album that I produced was very minimalist, just two guitars and a vocal. This year, I decided as a 20th year RPM anniversary, I would re-record that first record using all of the things I had learnt over the past twenty years. I had help from a very dear friend on producing the album as well as guest vocals and a guitar solo. This is going to be my last RPM. | Album | Rochester | | USA | LINK |
| Buku X dV | Electronic | We decided to remix pieces of each other’s work and put them together to make something for RPM. Due to unforeseen circumstances we managed only this one track so far, which is basically an unfinished draft, so the collaboration is still ongoing. Beat(s) by both of us, vox by Buku(panda) | Single | | | — | LINK |
| Buoy A | Blues | I started by selecting a smooth, sultry beat that matched the intimate vibe I envisioned for Sensual. Using BandLab’s built-in loops and instruments, I layered soft R&B-style chords and a mellow bassline to set the mood. I then recorded my vocals, experimenting with different harmonies and vocal effects to enhance the song’s emotional depth. To refine the sound, I used BandLab’s mixing tools—adding reverb for warmth and subtle compression for clarity. After fine-tuning the arrangement and balancing the levels, Sensual came to life as a soulful, immersive track ready for listeners to experience. | Single | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| ButterscotchBread | Singer-Songwriter | Just something I cobbled together this morning as an exercise to go with the flow a bit more, made it a point not to think too hard about the lyrics and just practise calling things Done instead of spending an eternity over the minutiae like I otherwise would | Single | | | Malaysia | LINK |
| C Alex | Singer-Songwriter | A folky little EP recorded on an iPhone for RPM 2025 | EP | St. John’s | NL | Canada | LINK |
| CakeFolder | Electronic | | Single | | | UK | LINK |
| CALM TOMBS | Singer-Songwriter | 2 songs with a friend in a pop-up studio, and 2 songs recorded on tape at home. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Cantaloops | Synth | Without anything formally planned from the onset, I knew only that I wanted to create something that would give me goosebumps when listening back, since that is the reaction I have when I listen to some of the music by other artists that has the most impact on me personally. The result was more than I expected, and while I was shooting for an "album", I missed the criteria by one track and about a minute for total runtime. That said, the result is a mix of orchestral and synthesized elements which makes for an interesting journey start to finish and what I would consider very experimental when compared to my more traditional style of songwriting. | EP | Thomaston | Connecticut | USA | LINK |
| Cantilever Resolution | Folk | | EP | St. John’s | NL | Canada | LINK |
| CARA LEE COLEMAN | Experimental | FANTASTICAL KUNG FU TACTICAL SCENARIOS AND DRILLS WOVEN WITH HIP HOP STYLE GROOVES | Album | CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Carbo | Rock | Four-piece all-original rock | EP | Carbonear | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Cat Amongst The Pigeons | Experimental | This EP was supposed to be a lot more electronic in focus but it ended up featuring a lot more guitar and other stringed instruments and thus it rapidly moved in a much more experimental direction than I had anticipated. It is better to ride the wave than waste time swimming against the tide so I rolled up my musical sleeves and followed my ever expanding instinct. The songs combine elements of blues, folks, funk and rock, along with ethnic instruments and beats, and, a good dose of electronic hardware and software instruments, including my first attempt at playing the theremin. And I learnt to play the ukulele, kalimba and a pretty decent blues harp along the way too. Am not quite sure what I have created but it really was a riot. Over the last month I have learnt new skills and have truly grown as a musician. For this alone, I will always be proud of this music I have created and I hope that others may also take some pleasure in listening to it. | EP | North Devon | | UK | LINK |
| catfingers | Ambient | a little bit every day and every way get the RPM 2025 done. | Album | Sydney | | Australia | LINK |
| CENTIPEDE | Experimental | electronic music mostly made with a single synth. I made it while travelling for work so had to keep the hardware light | EP | mobile | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Centrale Electrique | Soundtrack | It's an array of assorted piano/synth/guitar riffs, strung together with some melodies and noises, all instrumental. Maybe more melancholy and less rock than other years. | Album | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| Challenged | Metal | It's mostly about life | EP | South Burlington | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Chas Got the Spins | Pop | This is the final project using equipment in my studio that I've had for 3 years. This is me wringing the last creative beats and sounds from my current arsenal before releasing music in 2026 that will feature new synths and an entirely different sound. I made Bay Life specifically to mark the end of a musical and creative era for Chas Got the Spins. | EP | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Chris Anderson | Singer-Songwriter | In what has now become a tradition, I took a dive into 2021's 283-song "Music Box" project, and came out with eleven more bangers. That well gave birth to my last three RPM albums (The Solipsist, The Catalyst, and Goodbye Eden) and will likely fuel the next three as well. This also marks my 100th full-length solo release. I'm okay with this record bearing that distinction. | Album | Alexandria/Del Ray | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| Chris Cooke | Electronic | "Hyperspace Glide" is my 19th RPM Challenge submission as a solo artist. Music is not the focus of my life right now, and I've been less than motivated these last couple of years. I was determined to participate, but not really feeling it, and also not wanting to do a half-ass thing just to say I'd done it. On Saturday, Feb 22 I put together an EDM track ("Hyperspace Glide") using Live Loops in Logic Pro, and had a good time doing it. I felt like I'd make something I'd listen to again, and I could justifiable submit it as a single. And then the magic. I listened to the track again a few times on Sunday. By Monday, I felt like making music again! I wanted "Hyperspace Glide" to be a full LP, just like in the good old days. So I put together a concept and worked out 5 more tracks for a total of 35 minutes of music over Monday and Tuesday evenings. Now it's Feb 26th and I'm submitting. "Hyperspace Glide" tells the tale of an intersteller cruise gone wrong. We start out by boarding in Starlight Terminal 17D ("Starlight Terminal 17D"),where we board our starship cruiser and accelerate toward light speed. We break through into hyperspace and enjoy the ambient vibe ("Hyperspace Glide"). But then something goes wrong with the drive system! With a series of alarming noises, we drop out of hyperspace and drift for a bit while the crew checks out the system. ("Fluxed Up"). The cruise company puts down for an unscheduled layover on a blissful alien beach and we party while robots fix the ship. ("Gravity Haven"). In the distance, we can see the robots at work, and wouldn't you know, some of them are partying, too! ("Patch & Play"). Finally, the ship is repaired and we resume our cruise through the cosmos ("Orbit & Out"). It was an experience of a lifetime! | Album | Laurel | Maryland | USA | LINK |
| Christopher McGee | Classical | I recorded raw upright piano with 2 rented condenser mics! This is dedicated to my grandpa who is 90 and has repeatedly asked me to send him clips of me playing piano. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Church of England | Rock | Just a get together with some fellow RPMers and we recorded a song together. Mixed and produced it in Feb. 2025 | Single | Rochester | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Clare Gardens | Punk | Perseverance | Album | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| cLEEnDirty | Experimental | | Album | Austin | Texas | USA | LINK |
| Cloud Longing | Experimental | | Single | Charleston | South Carolina | USA | LINK |
| Cole Stanfield | Experimental | 3 meditations and a song | Album | Austin | | USA | LINK |
| Coma Shuttles | Singer-Songwriter | My 17th RPM Challenge album. This year we were in Florida for a family vacation for 2 weeks then there was a tragic family death so this year I had maybe 4 or 5 days to put something together. I decided to do it lofi and Bob Dylan style with no bridges or fancy structure and first round, mostly steam of consciousness lyrics. I have literally only listened to this album once, I have not developed any opinion about it at all | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Concepts Of A Band | Experimental | Zac Francis and Mike Allard were students at a school I taught at. We did an RPM with the track Ibby in 2008 as CATA Jam Club: More Than You Bargained For (Not In The Face!). Zac suggested a sequel. Ironically, I'd had lunch with Ibby a few weeks earlier. And here we are. | Album | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Connemara | Indie | Album that sorta oscillates between hopefulness and hopelessness in response to recent political developments in my home country. | Album | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| Connor Whalen | Synth | Fast beats to vibe out and scroll Letterboxd | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Corporate Mind - Jeff Fineberg | Experimental | This was an experiment in total improvisation without regard to composition, with additional fun of shredding some of the works. | Album | Buffalo | New York | USA | LINK |
| Corsica | Guitar | | EP | St.John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Count Cromulent | Rock | Tune in and see! | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Coyote Senate | Ambient | A collection of ambient pieces, metal, drones, textures, and cinematic landscapes. The archetype of the hermit and the archetype of the moon in conversation, drawing close, and experiencing the spaces between words. | Album | Chicago | Illinois | USA | LINK |
| Cruel Moon | Indie | A Collaborative songwriting effort | Album | Warwick | New York | USA | LINK |
| Cybernetic Voyager | Experimental | I let my mind wander and my fingers play while thinking about exploring planets far beyond our solar system. Feeling, interacting with the lifeforms; trying to survive just one month. | Album | Goldvein | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| D.V.D.V. | Dark | Sonic Excavations Of Troubled Minds | EP | Brussels | | Belgium | LINK |
| dadii | Noise | I have little to nothing to say other than, I am very very tired | EP | raleigh | North Carolina | USA | LINK |
| Dagger Complex | Synth | Temper is a sequel to a song I wrote for the RPM challenge in 2007. I did not finish then, and this is my first attempt at the RPM challenge now. | Single | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Dandy From Home | Singer-Songwriter | Dedicated to a little bee I watched die at work. Forever in my heart. I wish I had more time | Album | Northridge | California | USA | LINK |
| Danger Painters | Rock | Yes, on Thursdays. | Album | Santa Monica | California | USA | LINK |
| Dans Mes Rêves | Electronic | i consider this track to still be unfinished, but at least i managed to come up with something somewhat presentable. going back to making music revealed itself to be a seemingly neverending struggle throughout these three years of inaction. inundated by recurring stops and starts, my self-doubt proved itself to be a paralyzing force. this frail commitment serves as a reminder that i still carry some life within me and that i would still like to be heard by someone out there, whoever that may be. | Single | Vila Nova de Gaia | | Portugal | LINK |
| Dante Alexander | Electronic | This album is an eclectic mix of dark electronic, electro house and complextro. It is super edgy! It is super me! I had so much fun making it! It is my first time ever putting my own voice into productions, and it is also the most ambitious project I have ever attempted thus far. | EP | Newcastle upon Tyne | | UK | LINK |
| Dave Gorman | Electronic | First time taking part in the challenge. This song was recorded in reaper using guitar and midi instruments. Enjoy. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Dave Richardson | Folk | 10 new songs written over snowy days and nights, around busy moments, and through the chaos of the end-times. My 17th consecutive RPM Challenge. | Album | Windsor | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Dave Saigh | Indie | The latest single from Dave Saigh (say). This is a contemplation on taking a new step forward in a world of challenges and difficulties. “A New Breath” is a 2025 winter reflection on going forward through adversity. So take a listen and take “A New Breath”. | Single | Detroit | Michigan | USA | LINK |
| DAVI BARDO | Punk | Whatever | Single | Santa Rita do Sapucaí | | Brazil | LINK |
| David Caruk | Soundtrack | This album is an exposition of soundtrack compositions. It contains many styles of electronic music. It was composed on a Yamaha Montage Keyboard and Cubase AI. It is special to me because it showcases the styles of music I can compose. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| David Cooper Orton | Guitar | I have made an album of guitar music. Usually, I try to add other elements, but this year it's six strings and the truth, and thus feels special in that sense. It was made at home, using several different instruments, starting out as one guitar a day, recording what I did, and using pretty much first takes of everything, and spontaneously composed/improvised as I went along. | Album | Penarth | | UK | LINK |
| David Thorley | Folk | There's no one overarching concept, but there are a few loose overlapping themes: water; family; the future... It starts in one vein and then drifts into another, settling into something more typical of me. It has its defects (inevitably) but overall I'm pleased with it and, as always, had a great time putting it together. Congrats to everyone who completed something this February. | Album | London | | UK | LINK |
| DAW breaks | Experimental | A collage of hardware jams and mangled web paraphernalia. Made with MicroFreak, Bass Station II, AUM, Koala Sampler and Ableton. | Single | Düsseldorf | | Germany | LINK |
| Day 13 | Rock | | Album | Dover | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Deadstar | Experimental | A quick and messy two-track taster that will hopefully blossom into a full length record | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Death And The Poetess | Folk | We set out to share a 'dirge wave,' acoustic experience that may bring some rest to those feeling agitated in the current epoch. We were influenced by tarot, The Brothers Grimm, and poet Edward Lear. The album start to finish can be listened to as a lightly meant Hypnosis Induction/guided sleep talk-down experience, as well as a weirdeval, neofolk romp. | EP | Boston | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| DeathPheonix | Dark | I made an instrumental song that has a raspy guitar and some punk rocky drums | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| DeepSwimHypnosis | Guitar | A collection of my thougts and written poetry | EP | St. Johns | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Deer Stare | Punk | It's an improvisational post-punk/post-hardcore album we recorded our second time jamming ever. Everything execpt the lyrics and spoken word we came up with on the spot. | Album | St. Johns | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Devin, the Flaming Chicken | Synth | NHL Hitz 2003 Concept Album. Beeps, Boops, and Loops from the Flaming Chicken Coop | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Distinct Kicking Motion | Metal | I set out to make an instrumental EP but I wasn't sure where to go... but then I remembered I own an 8-string guitar. | EP | Rochester | New York | USA | LINK |
| Divortion | Guitar | Acoustic guitar with a DAW as a backing band. Still stuck in the 90s. | Single | Minneapolis | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| DJ Ghia | Electronic | I challenged myself with new gear. The album was primarily made with Ableton Push 2 and Ableton Live. The word Adwiwi is Abenaki meaning together in space and time. | Album | Jaffrey | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| DJ_TMC | Spoken Word | Protest Song. Hope to inspire others that were lied to. | Single | | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| Doll Butcher | Metal | | Album | Nashua | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Druid's Dog | Punk | This album was made using Cakewalk. It has an eclectic collection of songs and is dedicated to two friends who are no longer with us. | Album | | | UK | LINK |
| Dweeb | Rock | Obsessive-compulsive disorder | EP | Swarthmore | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| dye clouds | Ambient | | EP | Halifax | Nova Scotia | Canada | LINK |
| EB Reid and MC Hunter | Experimental | We made it together! It is Opera! It is Fun! | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| elling | Ambient | a very random collection of all-new artificially intelligent sound-garbage clogging up your internet — with an elling twist. i took snippets of my own music made using the app endlesss and fed the clips to suno, an ai music generator. it spat out a million ideas and went in a million directions. i wrestled with it, clip by clip, sections by section, second by second, trying to guide it where i wanted. after about 8,000,000 suno credits i relented and just let it do its dumb ai thing and write glitchy bangers about pets. | Album | Random Island | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Elsie | Indie | The three songs that make up My Laments summarize my feelings of living under capitalism, and sometimes it just plain sucks. Even if I sing about political greed, I couldn't make the songs sound unhappy because frankly, I had a great time making them. I made these songs in my house, and also using the PEI Public Library's recording studio! | Single | Charlottetown | Prince Edward Island | Canada | LINK |
| Ensemble For Sound Poetry And Contemporary Music | Soundtrack | Tracks came from around the world, from Canada, USA, Poland, Serbia, Belgium, France...and feature a variety of stles and genres | Album | Wuppertal | | Germany | LINK |
| Enzo | Singer-Songwriter | My 5 year old improvised all the music and lyrics | Album | Lunenburg County | Nova Scotia | Canada | LINK |
| Erin Yvette Haroldsen | Synth | Instrumental songs about journeys among the stars | Album | Idaho Falls | Idaho | USA | LINK |
| Ethan Gough | Classical | This is the third movement of my symphony I've been attempting to write over the last little while. It is scored for string orchestra and harp. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Evan West | Ambient | Ambient singer songwriter EP with elements of dream pop and noise | EP | St. John’s | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Evil Skull | Traditional | i made it using special powers | EP | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Exit Chamber | Ambient | Made as a late valentines present for my wife. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say I probably wouldn't be here today without her. | EP | Bonnyrigg | | UK | LINK |
| Fae Wiedenhoeft | Electronic | This year was a tough one for me. With the world being the way it is, words were hard. Recorded with Garage Band on iPad. | Album | Seattle | | USA | LINK |
| Fairchord & Fixer | Indie | The last couple years I've asked people on Instagram to vote on a fake genre for me to work with and this year's winning genre was "Gardenwave". Interpreting this was a blast and I ended up with a mash-up of folktronica, ethereal 80s pop, synthwave, 90s electronica and psychedelic elements. | Single | Minneapolis | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| Fares E | Traditional | Bit of a stylistic departure from me but had a lot of fun putting it together in a week. Its been a nice break from making my 2nd album which is all heavy metal | Single | Richmond | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| Fenchy | Pop | I lost my one and only dog I've ever had in 2025, which was already a bad year in the US, at least. This is my feelings and thoughts put into music. | EP | San Diego | California | USA | LINK |
| ficklebird | Indie | Spare room recording solo project, with acoustic and electric guitar, upright and electric bass. Surprise guest vocals by my son. | Single | Melrose | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Filterdrive | Electronic | Made a neat jungle track with some sampled breaks on an Elektron Analog RYTM, and a really simple synth jam. | Single | Dublin | | Ireland | LINK |
| First Born Sun | Indie | Ten songs covering an existential mid-life crisis and set to a country music theme. | Album | Canberra | | Australia | LINK |
| Foolish Bastard | Rock | Incantation is a collection of guitar instrumentals born from seeds of melodies and phrases over the years. This set began forming late 2024, woven from quiet moments, refined over time, and shaped by instinct. This is my meditation, where music carries echoes of thoughts, memories, and feelings. | Album | Bellevue | Washington | USA | LINK |
| frost finger | Rock | A stoner rock for fun collab from a few Portland buddies who otherwise do less heavy music- | EP | Portland | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Future Thread | Electronic | I made this album when I was traveling a lot, giving me more inspiration from my long journeys. I found that I worked very hard on this album, and definitely say that It's my best yet, thanks to the help of my family and friends. Thank you. | Album | Manchester | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Fuzz Aldrin | Experimental | Music ruined my life - it turned me into a musician. Now every song I write is an act of revenge. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Fynn Cunningham | Ambient | This is my third submission to the RPM Challenge, this one's really just me experimenting more with songmaking. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I had a good time making it. | Album | Buckfield | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Geo-Joe | Noise | Joey found an old Sony cassette player, recorded some piano samples, fucked them up, and looped them with reckless abandon. Georgia and Joey later improvised live Rhodes and drums against the chaos of the cassette samples in an effort to communicate how they have felt living in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. At the ninth hour, on Feb. 28th -- a day set aside for an economic blackout -- Joey purchased a Squire p-bass from Uhlik Music in Wichita, KS and recorded some last-minute bass guitar. While the bass was used and bought locally, it was made in Indonesia which presents its own variety of a moral conundrum. Album and song titles are inspired by New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s remarks in the wake of Donald Trump proclaiming “long live the king” alongside a photograph of himself in a crown. | EP | Wichita | Kansas | USA | LINK |
| Geoff Gyllenhaal | Punk | I made something reminiscent of UK post punk. It started as hyperpop production and the mangling the audio left me with a texture that inspired this sound | Single | Los Angeles | California | USA | LINK |
| Get Well Now | Indie | Our band has been playing these originals live since the start of winter, and we're so excited to finally record them. We booked studio time on Feb 1st and spent the whole day tracking everything. It was such a fun collaborative process and we're excited to share our first EP with the world! | EP | Madison | Wisconsin | USA | LINK |
| Ghost Drip | Indie | | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Glass Room Magic | Singer-Songwriter | Trent Radio live broadcast community album. | EP | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Gliftor Draken | Experimental | It was all made in Reaper with instrument VSTs. The only real instruments used were electric guitar on several tracks and modular synthesizer on "Off The Rails". | Album | Lowertown | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| Gloamh | Ambient | I tried to make something a bit more cold and atmospheric but it ended up a bit darker and more rhythmic than I expected but no complaints. I tried to use my drum machine and some newer synths and affects I picked up over the last couple months. | Single | Ste Anne | Manitoba | Canada | LINK |
| Gobtronic Noise Lab | Ambient | Original intention was to complete a full album, but even as many songs were recorded, they were missing the mark except for this one. It was a cold, rainy day and it started with a field recording of that rain falling that inspired this. Not an original concept, but I wanted to capture the somber and otherwise quite time. | Single | San Francisco | California | USA | LINK |
| Goldparalax | Electronic | Track came to me early this year and had a ton of fun making it! | Single | Glen Cove | New York | USA | LINK |
| Golly | Electronic | Jerome Hynes and Jason Mills made 10 songs; some folk, some rap, some experimental stuff. Our 3rd time participating in RPM. | Album | Stephenville and Mt. Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Graveyard Shift | Electronic | I chose to kick my habit of starting a new project every year and continue with the project I started for last year's RPM. I've become increasingly interested in computer music as well as making more traditional rock music with modern computers. I had so much fun learning new things about synths, programming, arranging and electronic production last year. I really wanted to have another chance to flex those muscles. My partner Isobel came in on this one and contributed the vocals to the first song on the EP, a hyperpop-influenced banger called Supernova. The second track is a quick garage-rock tune that started as an experiment in sampling guitar chords to be played like a synthesizer. The final track is a more personal & dark epic that is intended to conjure uneasy feelings in the listener. I'm pretty proud of it all. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Grayscout | Indie | This is our first release! | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Grogbit | Synth | A new wave track using various synthesizers, guitar and drums. | Single | Paradise | NL | Canada | LINK |
| GRUB | Indie | First rpm in 8 yrs | EP | St. John’s | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Guy Capecelatro III | Indie | I made 8 records this time around. A wide range of things. | Album | kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Guy Capecelatro III | Singer-Songwriter | This was done by myself, live in the attic. | Album | Kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Guy Capecelatro III | Synth | This is a soundtrack to the movie of my life. | Album | Kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| h{EE}l | Experimental | The RPM Challenge h{EE}l using the sounds of Pendro / Jim Benbow / Bim Prongs / RDKPL / Oonark Klaes / el_masmore / Scott Bazer / {AN}EeL | Album | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Harbor Grey | Singer-Songwriter | A song about hope and a song for the jammers. Pick up your instrument and jam over the outro. This song was one of those special ones that came together fast and seemed to write itself. That RARELY happens for me. | Single | Placentia | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Hardman and Beamish | Electronic | Half online collaborations, half in-person jams. | EP | Waikato and Auckland | | New Zealand | LINK |
| Haury Maury | Indie | I've always wanted to record an album mostly on my own, and now that I have the equipment to do it, .....I did it! It was a lot of fun and I plan on keeping at it and getting better at the process. | EP | Corner Brook | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Hokey | Electronic | Hurt my knee doing this but was able to complete it. Last year I was jobless and this year I took the experience and made things better, learning new things and starting to find a sound. | Album | Austin | Texas | USA | LINK |
| Holy Mountains | Indie | I intended to make a 10 track electronic album, instead got derailed by real life stuff and made a single, guitar-based song instead. Maybe next year I'll really go electronic... | Single | Los Angeles | California | USA | LINK |
| Humans | Rock | We metabolized experience so fast; we had to take a snapshot just to recall whether or not we ever even did it at all. But then one day we woke and everything had changed. We knew what we wanted | EP | poughkeepsie | New York | USA | LINK |
| I Saw Movement | Indie | This challenge was a great reason to get this batch of songs to the finish line. This EP was written and recorded at home; mixed and mastered by East/Mid-West Audio. | EP | Glassboro | New Jersey | USA | LINK |
| Ian Wilson Ross | Singer-Songwriter | I took some words that I wrote after my dad died, and recorded a little song skeleton on cassetter 4 track. | Single | Providence | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| ICCCP | Noise | plugged some things in, and then i unplugged some things | EP | St. Clair Shores | Michigan | USA | LINK |
| ieatpants | Experimental | mostly instruments. one spoken word bit. made late at night. avoiding life. there were lots of noises recorded. these are the most interesting tidbits. | EP | Frome | | UK | LINK |
| Ike Shark | Indie | Made with Garageband, HX Native, Red Panda Raster, and guitars. | EP | Baltimore | Maryland | USA | LINK |
| Indestination | Rock | I started out wanting to make a chill record with drum machines and surf guitar. I ended up in a dystopian nightmare of synths, distortion and an unshakeable feeling of dread. | Album | Waltham | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| isaac horgan | Synth | i used a combination of hardware and software to create a record across many styles of electronic and acoustic music. | Album | Adelaide | | Australia | LINK |
| ISPIR | Experimental | Insects and rodents | Album | San Francisco | California | USA | LINK |
| Jack Ayers | Indie | was hoping I could make a full ep but I only got to two of the tracks. Fortunately, they're both rather good, so I'm overall satisfied. Washington is a very ambient folk song whose instrumental is mostly improvised. Ink has a much more solid beat, but I'd struggle to call it very energetic. | Single | | | USA | LINK |
| Jacob Barton | Ambient | A collection of tracks involving the udderbot, my invention of an instrument. Mostly improvised, off-the-cuff, capricious. | Album | Virginia Beach | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| Jade Dream | Synth | A collection of synth pop tracks that were really fun to make. My first time doing the RPM challenge. | EP | | | USA | LINK |
| jai | Electronic | I was aiming to make 4 tracks end up only doing 3, and I have fail to propose an unifiying theme, hopefully I can improve this next time. On this track I used digitals synths, and was trying to make a very joyful/silly track, ended up with something a bit more dark as it was hard to maintain these feeling without having things sound too weird. | Single | | | France | LINK |
| Jai Mohan | Singer-Songwriter | | EP | Brooklyn | New York | USA | LINK |
| James Ghofulpo | Rock | Basement recording, pretty much off the cuff. | Album | Erie | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| James Merriwether with the Silicon Stars | Punk | Seven songs for seven cards. Two elementals to lead and follow. February ends and the Queen of Wanda ascends | EP | Sin JIn's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Jana Sais Quoi | Soundtrack | This EP explores themes of fate, chance and loss of control. It implements chance music compositional techniques and tarot cards to determine vibes. | EP | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| JAPHETH | Rock | I put together a few different styles of music that I have been playing around with for a few years, trying to find something that works for me. Everything that I have come up with is solely written and recorded by myself. Its a collection of things I've been working on, things that have come to me recently, and things that I threw together just to complete the challenge this year. Everything was recorded in my basement in February of 2025. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Jarrett Osborn | Indie | After many years of doing full RPM albums, I took a step back and completed an EP this year. Definitely threw me off kilter and I found myself oddly running out of time at the end, despite only doing half as much as normal. But mainly I just enjoyed turning knobs and making cool sounds. | EP | Salem | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| JC | Rock | A flat-out anger & anxiety-fueled rocker. My response to the destruction of American Democracy and Government Institutions, by evil billionaire Oligarchs. Produced in JC Studios using: Ableton Live 12 Suite, AKAI MPK MKII Mini keyboard contoller, MacBook Pro M2 Max | Single | San Francisco | California | USA | LINK |
| Jeff Foran | Jazz | It's a jazz inspired EP, moving from one small bop-kit to a larger full-sized drum kit. It explores transitions in styles and showcases my many collaborators. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Jennifer Horna | Pop | I had this unused melody that gave wandering vibes, not knowing where you go, you just keep on walking. That's life. I'm right now at a time of uncertainity in my life so the lyrics came out naturally. | Single | Lima | | Peru | LINK |
| Jericruel | Dark | I made an EP that reinvents my old sound and incorporates more dream pop elements with my traditional gothic style | EP | Boulder | Colorado | USA | LINK |
| Jessaca | Indie | its lame | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Jill Staveley | Singer-Songwriter | I managed to do it. Write and record a song this February. I had hoped to do more - but life is busy, and this song reflects that. | Single | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Jim Doran | Experimental | The spoken word bits, read here by robots, were made from deconstructed academic journals that were reassembled into new prose. All music was made, or recorded in the wild, by myself. | Album | Baltimore | Maryland | USA | LINK |
| Jim n' Jack | Blues | | Single | St. Johns | NL | Canada | LINK |
| JimBaumerME | Indie | An EP with some of my usual populist fodder, but also a track that I pay tribute to the late Scott Miller on, a true power pop genius. | EP | Lynchburg | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| Joel David Hickman | Classical | Solo piano pieces. I like composing for the piano and other instruments. Ideas using free tonality, chord structures and simple melodic ideas. | Album | Hebron | Indiana | USA | LINK |
| johnjack vs van gauche | Electronic | combining the straightforward EDM of johnjack with the ambling experimentation of van gauche | EP | Summerside | Prince Edward Island | Canada | LINK |
| Jollroy | Experimental | I had several old unfinished tracks that I didn’t want to forget, but at the same time, I was busy with other compositions. Finally, I finished them and put them together into one album! The album is named after one of the eight tracks. In the album you can hear tracks from different genres, organically packaged with each other. You’ve never heard anything like this before) | EP | | | — | LINK |
| Jon Gillespie | Synth | I made some environmental music using software. It's not so special, but it's a good indicator of where my mind has been as of late. | EP | West Whittier | California | USA | LINK |
| Joseph Human | Pop | Typically, the songs I make are a bit slower, so I decided to push myself and bump up the tempos and I'm happy with the results. This is also the first time I've commisioned someone for album art and I am really glad that I did. | EP | Burlington | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Julia Leguerrier | Singer-Songwriter | Quelques enregistrements faits vraiment à la bonne franquette (live sul cellulaire, le 28 février). C'est encore dans le cadre du RPM Challenge, c'est ce qui m'a motivée à finalement donner une certaine forme à ces p'tits bouts-de-tounes accumulés du reste de l'année. Aussi, je me suis forcée à explorer plus le banjo, cette fois-ci! | EP | Sainte-Rose-du-Nord | Quebec | Canada | LINK |
| Just Might | Hip-Hop | I had this beat lying around so I tightened it up, wrote some rhymes and spit hot fire. | Single | | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Justin Mathews | Dark | the corporate world is tough | Single | Waterloo | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| KAFIZA | Punk | We split up recording this record at a house in Evanston, IL and a recording studio in Chicago. The result is truly magical, a well produced, sonically pleasing, heavy record sprinkled with goofy moments and pure emotion. This record is unlike anything I've ever done for RPM, incredibly ambitious, yet also one of the least time consuming towards the end. I'm very proud of this record. | Album | Chicago | Illinois | USA | LINK |
| Keith Landry | Singer-Songwriter | Just a quick song inspired by a night at Saratoga's Caffe Lena | Single | Glenville | New York | USA | LINK |
| kerning man | Synth | Having to make music quickly (a little bit after work each day) resulted in a collection of strange little ditties that I imagine reflect something going on in my brain. I limited myself to using synths and drum machines (as well as an omnichord on one track, and some samples and badly vocoded vocals),and I only let myself have a day per track then a week or so to go back and edit things. | Album | Dunedin | | New Zealand | LINK |
| Kevin Hartley | Singer-Songwriter | This song is a nod to the opening sequence of every episode of (one of) my favourite TV shows "Six Feet Under and the fickle finger of fate. You know it going to happen but you just don't know when. It was recorded in my home studio with GarageBand in warts and all fashion. I'd like to thank all my friends who provided advice and feedback on this song. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Kevin Paddle Blues Band | Blues | The album is a 10 song studio recording completed s part of the RPM challenge. Completed in February many of the ideas for the album have been floating around for a while. It is the best that we could do at this point in time. Hope you all like it. Thanks for listening and thanks for the challenge. | Album | | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Kevyn Oliveira | Ambient | | EP | Rio de Janeiro | | Brazil | LINK |
| Kevyspice | Electronic | Made a bunch of noise with VCV Rack, tape loops, drone boxes, effects pedals, and even real drums and my bass, then plucked a bunch of text from the Project Gutenberg file for The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (a long-time patron saint for High Weirdness),and made some text-to-speech synth voices say the words. On much earlier RPM albums, I used to do this kind of this as filler alongside attempts at more straight-ahead guitar-based songs, but I mostly gave that up a few years ago, to my great comfort and joy. | EP | Huntsville | Alabama | USA | LINK |
| Kharisma | Metal | Introspective | Album | portland | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| Khin Wah & the Vegan Chorizo’s | Guitar | This new five track EP - "...from dust we come..." is a landmark moment for Khin Wah + the Vegan Chorizo's. It is the first time any release from them has featured either guitars or vocals. Up until now - they have been a 'po faced synth based quartet' that has never uttered a word in anger. Staying true to their tradition of never formally recording anything - these new tracks were selected from live captures in the rehearsal studio in February 2025. | EP | Melbourne | | Australia | LINK |
| kimber rose | Folk | I wrote this single in a few hours that I was feeling especially angsty. My lyrics are direct--not a lot of mystery here--it's about the struggle to let go of someone you love when you don't want to because you know it's what's best, and dealing with reliving all the good memories.. | Single | brevard | North Carolina | USA | LINK |
| Kirk Wells | Synth | I made a 10 songs album. I really enjoyed this process. I've done this before, but my approach this time was different - more improvisational. I would start a session, and the first half decent idea I had I would run with it until I had something that felt somewhat complete. And it worked. I didn't thin I had it in me to write ten songs in a month anymore, but seems I do (though maybe I took some liberties with the word "song" a couple times ;) | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| kittenz kittenz kittenz | Singer-Songwriter | i found out u guys moved the deadline so i wrote 3 of these songs and recorded all of them in one night | EP | st johns | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Km 385 | Singer-Songwriter | These songs are reflections that came to me after a close call. I wanted to have a way to remember. Recorded on voice memos. | EP | Port Hardy | British Columbia | Canada | LINK |
| Kolumbia | Indie | First ever songs were written, for a school project | EP | St johns | NL | Canada | LINK |
| KuCeauX | Folk | This is my 3rd RPM Challenge Album. It is my gift to myself. Last year I had a brain bleed and almost didn't make it. After a lot of effort, physio therapy and something else I am able to put on mascara without blinding myself but my guitar rhythm hand sucks and my drumming is still a racket ... but I'm working on it. I bought a mixer with an interface but I'm technologically challenged and rhythmically impaired. I've managed to record my self expressions somehow so I'm calling it a success regardless of how it sounds. This is my offering. | EP | Carmanville | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Kumoguma | Ambient | An auditory collage made to teach myself mixing/mastering in GarageBand, at the end of the fifth year of the seemingly-eternal COVID pandemic. | Album | t'karonto | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Kyla Tilley | Folk | There was a brief moment when Galactica.org, a Meta owned attempt at building an LLM for Science (as if scientists don't learn how to conduct research) was open to the general public. It was trained on a number of scientific papers, and Wikipedia. I and my Twitch viewers spent a significant amount of time that week typing in silly things and laughing and laughing and laughing at the things the AI returned. I had just learned the Japanese kanji for the planet Jupiter, which uses the kanji for 'tree' so one of the things I typed was: Tell me about Jupiter, Tell me about trees. I got the following response: "Tell me about Jupiter, Tell me about trees is a short story by Philip K Dick The story is told in the first person by a character named David. David is an alien, from a planet in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. He is currently living in New York City. He has no memory of his life before he arrived in the Solar System, but has developed a fascination with Earth's ecosystem. He has a theory that the Earth's ecosystem is a living organism, which has evolved over millions of years. He believes that, just as humans have evolved from primates, Earth's ecosystem has evolved from a single species. He has been attempting to observe and record this evolution. David decides to observe Jupiter. He is given a telescope by a local man, and begins observing the Jovian system. He notices that Jupiter is in the middle of a war between its moons, and decides to observe the planet from the safety of a spaceship in orbit. While in orbit, he begins to observe the Earth, and discovers that the ecosystem is changing. He concludes that the Earth's ecosystem is evolving. David then begins to observe other planets, such as Mars and Venus. He observes that the ecosystems of other planets are changing, and decides that Earth is no exception. He also begins to observe the Sun, and discovers that it is also evolving. David concludes that the universe is evolving, and that the Earth is a small part of the whole. David decides to observe the entire universe. He takes a spaceship to the center of the galaxy, and discovers that the universe is not evolving, but is in fact, decaying." I decided this silly little story was worthy of being turned into a song. The song structure follows the output exactly, and I took many of the lines word for word from the AI response. Meta might think they deserve a writing credit for that. I have not given them one. If they ever decide to acknowledge and pay all the artists whose work they've stolen to build their LLMs, I may reconsider. I will at least thank all the authors who's work was subsumed (likely without permission) by Galactica. I enjoyed the freedom a not so serious song gave me to play around with harmonies and synth sounds, the song at it's core is about curiosity but it is also about decay. It should be enjoyed for what it is, a fun song about a space alien conducting interplanetary research, but it should also serve as a commentary on the harms, particularly the environmental harms caused by AI for a product that is really quite useless. | Single | Conception Bay North | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Kyle Johnson | Folk | communityedit navigation bar The End by Kyle Johnson Share / Embed Wishlist Edit Delete Bulk Edit Quiet Moments 00:00 / 04:14 Digital Album Streaming + Download Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app. Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz. Buy Digital Album name your price Send as Gift 1. The End 02:35 2. Love You Everyday 03:41 3. Ain't Gonna Go 04:31 4. After the Party's Over 04:13 5. Old Rodeo 03:27 6. Turn off that TV 06:45 7. Quiet Moments 04:14 8. Spanish War 05:48 about This is my 2025 RPM Challenge album. Unlike last year's, this album is a collection of country songs written over the past several months with no strict theme. As the album developed, it was clear that many of the songs discuss the state of the world, masculinity, the rise of authoritarianism, and the end of empire. And there's a couple of love songs in here to boot! | Album | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Last Band | Metal | Last Band was the creation of two like-minded artists in 2009, submitting an album for RPM that year. 15 years later finds the two still making killer jams together and learning a thing or two. | EP | Boston | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| latecomber | Indie | last minute lil push for myself to bring out the ol frooty loops. 1st is alex g inspired despair. 2nd is little go at unpolished unstructured cacophony (built off of pedal loop bpm nightmare) | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Lattice of Coincidence | Indie | It's, like, songs. You know? It's mostly based on spending too much time in college radio in the 90s. I'd still like to refine stuff further but, yeah. Things. | EP | Saint Louis | Missouri | USA | LINK |
| leaving lost | Ambient | my brain wouldn't shut up about all the horrible things going on in the world right now, so i made weird, uneasy music about it. made primarily from ancient files databent using audacity, bits of guitar from other abandoned projects, software synth from surge xt, a couple of pedals and some weird adapters | EP | Worcester | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Lectronin | Electronic | I tried using a variety of approaches from recording using Logic on an iPad mini, to creating ideas on Ableton Move, to improvising on Ableton Push and Roland SH-4d. The variety and challenge of the different methods made the process more interesting and the songs a little more organic. | EP | Vancouver | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Legacy Systems | Experimental | Experimental electronica made using Eurorack modules and feedback synthesis | EP | Alcester | | UK | LINK |
| Letter Seventeen | Indie | 2024 was a year to forget, with family issues and multiple medical issues making music almost impossible. This represents a return to music. I needed it more than I thought I did. | Single | Norcross | Georgia | USA | LINK |
| Levi Galloway | Singer-Songwriter | | Album | lansing | Michigan | USA | LINK |
| lil bits | Electronic | I told myself i would make algorithmically composed pseudo-random non-generative breakcore dubstep and that’s what I did. | EP | Utrecht | | Netherlands | LINK |
| LÖMSK | Rock | Members of Reddit's Game of Bands came together to create over 50 tracks spaning four albums and a bounus disk. The albums repersent the 4 elements. Being an online music creating challenge, this was all done online. It is always special to have so many people contribute to a single goal. | Album | Pflugerville | Texas | USA | LINK |
| looprication | Dark | What: an album inspired by visiting Greece and a story I read about a burial ground in Peru. It's special because I stayed pretty true to the type of music I wanted to write. How: Some hardware, some software, one "live" modular synth jam but mostly Ableton / Reason. | Album | Richmond | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| los beatniko | Electronic | I tried to make the process easy, with few recorded takes and multiple instruments. Worked on making the mixing/mastering hot for playback, but it should be just fine for spacious earphone listening. I like to present a mood. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Lost Principal | Indie | I've been procrastinating over my band's latest album for a while now, and needed to give myself a kick to get going again so the RPM Challenge felt like a decent place to start. It's my 12th time completing since 2008, though previously I've always done full albums. Sadly work commitments meant I could only achieve an EP this time. It's great to be back in the saddle though | EP | King's Lynn | | UK | LINK |
| LR Friberg | Ambient | "Unyielding" is about what cannot be erased. Progress is not a straight line, and history is full of those who tried to turn it back. But some things, once known, cannot be unknown. Some truths, once spoken, do not disappear. Education cannot be undone. Awareness cannot be erased. The idea of freedom, once grasped, is not easily surrendered. There will always be manufactured division, distractions designed to exhaust. But beyond it, the foundations remain. The belief in dignity. The understanding of rights. The knowledge that power is meant to be held accountable. These are not trends or ideologies to be debated. They are the hard-won inheritance of generations who refused to yield. It’s instinct. It’s in the voices that rise, the hands that build, the minds that refuse to be dulled. No matter how much the tide shifts, no matter how many obstacles are placed in the way, the path forward remains. Unyielding. | EP | Linköping | | Sweden | LINK |
| Luna Ponderosa | Guitar | Texture, direction, a quantum of angst or catharsis. Guitar, bass, fake drums, real drums, mandolin, fiddle, synth. | Album | Pflugerville | Texas | USA | LINK |
| LycanSong | Experimental | A Lounge track that gets more and more unhinged as it goes on, along with the singer's lyrics. All made in Ableton, with my own voice and midi and lots of free VSTs :-) | Single | Berlin | | Germany | LINK |
| m. manifeste | Synth | each record uses a combination of self-built synths and effects with digital samplers and field recordings. small ideas kept small and explored in detail. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Mac McIntyre | Indie | I struggled... that's about all I'm going to say... but I produced something! | Single | Bath | | UK | LINK |
| Maestro Bizarro | Electronic | Signed up for EP, made LP with help from friends | Album | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Maria Cherwick | Folk | while running errands last week, I started writing the first tune of this set in my head. When I got home, I scribbled down "Canadian Tire" as a placeholder title, simply to trigger my memory of when/where the tune was conceived. A few days ago, it occurred to me that "Canadian TireD" is a pretty spot on way to describe how a lot of us are feeling these days, with the barrage of ludicrous news coming at us every day from the administration down south. While it's easy feel quite hopeless, I've been reflecting on the possibility that it's always darkest before dawn. Perhaps that's naive, but it's also the only thing keeping me going. So with that in mind, I wrote "Glimmer of Hope" as an attempt to manifest brighter days ahead. The tune shifts from minor to major tonality, references several melodies I find particularly uplifting, and even quotes the B section of Canadian Tired in jig form. I started arranging this last night (Feb 28) around 10pm, and recorded all night. I played all the parts myself, and it's very revealing to write an arrangement for yourself, knowing you don't actually play one of the instruments haha, but please bear with my 5 note cello part... And my brother Jacob mixed the track! | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Marten Ingle | Experimental | This years offer is a 35 minute jam/collage dedicated to the most deeply feared and loved creature-myth of the Deep C- Godzilla! First appearing in 1954 in the film by Ishiro Honda, Godzilla quickly became the most significant mythical icon of post Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic destruction in Japan and the emerging world wide Cold War. The mid 50's zeitgeist was all about “Atomic”, “the Bomb” and the new found destructive power that could effectively bring the world to it's end. Result of nuclear tests, Deep Sea earthquakes, a metaphor for the rise of Post War USA, and warning about imminent Climate destruction, Godzilla is the King of Gaijus. My son Neil created a graphic character in early childhood that became a leading figure in his creativfe world, “Godzilly”. Possible reference to his exposure to my passion for monsters and Godzilla in particular, I am exploring the different aspects that Godzilla has meant to me in my life. I have used as a starting point the profound and enigmatic score of Akira Ifukube, “Godzilla- (Main Theme)” composed for the film in 1954. The Deep C World of 2025 has seen some dramatic and troublesome changes and poses some crucial and important questions: Will Godzilla reawaken as deep ocean mining becomes another of human destructive tendencies in a rush to get the biggest stash of limited resources? Will NOAA survive? Where is the SS Gojira? Will Bruce Willis star in a bromance with Godzilla to destroy the Asteroid of Doom coming up in 2032? | Album | Paris | | France | LINK |
| Martin Nolan | Pop | Made old school with two cassette recorders. Written and performed by Martin Nolan. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| matieto | Experimental | falling into music-induced trance states, improvising on guitar or machines or synth and things | Album | Montpellier | | France | LINK |
| Matt Long | Pop | It's a 3p or Tringle, I made it with instruments and stuff. | EP | Lawrence | Kansas | USA | LINK |
| Matt Nunnelly | Folk | I haven't done any recording in a couple years, haven't done any writing in even longer. I recorded it all at home with a small interface or an HX Stomp, and learned to use Reaper while doing it. It was fun to get back into the swing of things. | EP | Auburn | Alabama | USA | LINK |
| Matthew Kaiser | Pop | These are my recent ventures into pop. I wanted to create an anthem, and these are all from weekly prompts at the American Songwriter Membership Hub. Recorded in my basement studio. | Single | Allentown | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| Maya Mind | Soundtrack | Maya Mind is a palette of sonic soundscapes whereby listeners can imagine the accompanying storylines. I decided to play with music as a retirement project. The learning curve is pretty steep. For this project the tracks are improvised one-shot live and submitted as recorded, no DAW no editing, no mastering. I am just having fun. | Album | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| McFadden | Experimental | A long overdue reunion of the mighty McFadden (via file sharing over the internet) | Album | Antelope | California | USA | LINK |
| MechaniCrash | Indie | "Ghostish" is a work of compressed time, haunting melodies, funky bass, syncopated rhythms, and creative samples. | Album | Los Angeles | California | USA | LINK |
| medians | Ambient | A record. Ninth consecutive. Like we always do! | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Mega Doll | Classical | es una mezcla de musica para cuarteto de cuerdas (formato tradicional) con cello solista, ensamble breakcore, y terror core experimental | Album | Bogotá | | Colombia | LINK |
| Melancholic Zombie | Rock | Bass goes boom and guitars go brrrrr. I was planning to do ambient project, ended up with this industrial ''thing''. Inspired by Bambie Thug and Cyberpunk especially. | Single | Turku | | Finland | LINK |
| Metamere | Electronic | It wasn’t a good month for making a full EP or album for the RPM challenge, but I still got in some fun sound crafting and song making time, and produced something worth sharing. I created several new presets for the Deluge synth community firmware 1.2 preset design competition which was running at the same time. I also updated a few favorite presets that I had made in the last year, and made a big kit of VSCO orchestral percussion samples that I processed. I created nine short demo clips for the different presets, and spliced those little vignettes together into one song here. | Single | Chanhassen | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| Michael Böer | Electronic | Most of these sounds originated in one of two virtual environments: (a) Arturia’s MiniFreak V 3 and Pigments 6, (b) Voxglitch Grain Engine + Path Set Ice Tray in VCV Rack 2. | Album | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Michael Tero | Singer-Songwriter | winter musings on life | Album | eliot | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Mid Life | Folk | Scratch Tracks sounds like Smashmouth | Album | epping | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Midswim | Experimental | It's a combination of 2 heavy rock/punk songs and then 2 experimental acoustic songs using tape recordings from The Artist's Way book on tape and my own recordings of my dreams over a few months last summer. | EP | Guelph | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Mieremet | Noise | I started my moniker Mieremet 4 years ago for RPM, and keep going strong. Mixing opera vox with cleannoise! Cheers!!! | EP | Groningen | | Netherlands | LINK |
| Mike Kay | Electronic | Art is sometimes dark, sometimes light. Either way, it exists and that's what's important. | EP | Otepoti Dunedin | | New Zealand | LINK |
| milligan | Singer-Songwriter | just a classic tragic breakup song! :-) | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Mine Da Gap | Electronic | Christmas Extended Play is not related in any way, shape or form to the holiday after which it's named. There's nothing seasonal about it except what you bring to the title. | EP | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| minimaleffect | Dark | I made a record of solo piano music. All I ever wanted out of life was to look back on something and say "I did that". This is that something. | Album | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Mokaio | Singer-Songwriter | I made a single using Ableton. It is the first song I am proud to release. | Single | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Monchy Street | Ambient | Noise | Single | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Morgellona | Rock | rock n roll | EP | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| MotionSound | Folk | My wife and I have been writing and singing together for some time now. We call our duo 'MotionSound'. The RPM Challenge offers an activity in February that is a bit of fun, and an 'at least once a year' chance to capture some of the things bouncing around in our heads...these ideas are very few takes, and that's evident, but some of the material is stream of consciousness, right off the top. | Album | Maddox Cove | NL | Canada | LINK |
| mrgoetta | Comedy | Tired of living in important times. | Album | Chula Vista | California | USA | LINK |
| Mungo | Electronic | I created this album of (mostly) electronic rock music in the month of February 2025 for the annual RPM Challenge. As usual, I realized this project using Logic Pro and some of my favorite textures (electric piano, drums, drums, drums, bass, shiny clanks, fuzzy eruptions and, yes, drums). I started off with playing 8 keyboard improvisations (with various MIDI instruments you can hear throughout the album) from which I composed and arranged these 9 tracks. | Album | Meridian | Colorado | USA | LINK |
| MW | Indie | This is a 7 track EP - heavly influenced by what is going on in the USA at the moment. | EP | Ballarat | | Australia | LINK |
| namesofthedead | Experimental | I made some things which do some stuff. Some do more than others. Sometimes the flowers arrange themselves. | EP | San Diego | California | USA | LINK |
| Napstablook | Punk | I WANTED TO EXPERIEMNT WITH THIS SOUND. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Nate Monoxide | Pop | Welcome to Veilside is an 85 minute long mega-song, which can be broken into 26 smaller songs. Exploring the mysterious town of Veilside, where you'll find a whispering waterfall, a skinless dog, an ultraviolent sports team, a psychic who harvests organs, and most terrifying of all... a rail replacement bus service. | Album | Whitehaven | | UK | LINK |
| Nathun | Electronic | I challenged myself to make an EP solely using the Model Cycles synth/drum machine. I ended up making an albums worth of tracks so I decided to share them all! It's intended to be a soundtrack and/or motivator for working a corporate office job. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Natohk | Experimental | | Album | Black Fen | | UK | LINK |
| Natural Consequence | Indie | We made music to get us through the winter. Root song was played on an improvised guitar made of 200-year old barn wood and a gunpowder can. | EP | Albany | New York | USA | LINK |
| Neil King | Hip-Hop | Hip Hop based on real life pain, made in 5 days on garage band, blue mic, midi controller | Album | Carbonear | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Neil McDougall | Rock | A hard rock revisitation of my old songs, with a 2025 lick of paint | EP | Stewarton | | UK | LINK |
| Neon Demon | Electronic | Subversive, back alley, drugstore grit. Ideas explored: use of noise and field recordings blended into traditional instruments. Instruments: drums, percussion, guitars, basses, keys, synths, distortions, noise, field recordings | Album | Chicago | Illinois | USA | LINK |
| nflxn | Rock | First solo demo/EP in a very long time, after several arm and wrist injuries. Captured feelings from my trips to Japan and Iceland. Made with Ableton, live guitars, bass, piano, synths and found sounds. | EP | Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada | LINK |
| nice to know you | Synth | i abandoned the surf punk album i started because i got excited about the computer again, and dove back into the world of synths and arps. this is a dreamy, ethereal ep that will lead to a full album eventually | EP | Petty Harbour | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Nigel Moss | Experimental | I decided to go around the cycle of fifths, one for each track, but hopping between the minor and major sides of the circle with each step | Album | Buxton | | UK | LINK |
| Nightwindelf | Dance | A 15 minute stream of conciousness that relates to 1990's style trance in a loose sort of way | EP | Syracuse | New York | USA | LINK |
| Noble Gossip | Indie | In his second year of tackling the RPM challenge, Noble Gossip emerges with a bold and boundary-pushing album, Hail Mary. Across eight tracks, Jeremy explores distorted sonic territories and complex emotions, weaving together threads of indie, punk, and experimental elements to create an audacious musical tapestry. Dive into the world of Hail Mary and experience the sound of boundaries being shattered. As an AI agent, I cannot actually listen to any of the music made by this indie-rock virtuoso, but he assures me that it's some of his best work to date. | Album | Madison | Wisconsin | USA | LINK |
| North of the Checkerboard | Guitar | The Cohiba ep is three songs we recorded (mostly) during the recent snowstorm, in Young's Point. Expect acoustic guitar, some experimental sounds, and then in the eleventh hour: a banjo ballad. | Single | peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| northern comfort | Indie | I joined this challenge on a whim in the middle of February and did very little work on my song. This was all that I could muster with the actual time I spent. Also, I have no experience doing any of the production/ mixing for songs and have never released anything. | Single | Kitchener | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Not Faith. Not Holly. | Indie | We have been playing music together for seventeen years, and finally decided it was time to give recording something a try! We wanted to do something acoustic that mirrored the vibe of us just jamming like we always have. We created an EP that speaks to the nostalgia we all feel for less complicated times, and longing for that feeling of being content again. Recorded with a laptop, usb microphone, $4 headphone and a duvet cover suspended from the ceiling. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| nOT Mad | Pop | Written in spurts throughout 2025. As always I use the Challenge as a social adventure where I engage my musical friends to contribute | EP | Greenbackville | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| Not Quiet Noise | Electronic | Hurriedly made on a computer, keyboard, FL Studio | EP | Hamilton | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Nu Milk | Rock | Jams turned into classics, and chickens | EP | Dover | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Nukage | Electronic | This record marks a bit of a return to electronic music for me, after working on a metal record for a while. Almost everything was recorded live, mainly using live looping software, and then those loops were arranged and triggered live in Bitwig, with minimal editing and post processing. I wanted to really get hands-on with the music making this time around, instead of programming everything with the mouse as most music producers do. | Album | State College | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| objectathon | Experimental | Created entirely on hardware synths and my tracker, this songs pushed me to create and produce entirely unshackled from my DAW. I started the month by picking up the guitar, but wanted to focus on making more electronic-focused music. I was aiming for a video-gamey kind of sound and I think I got something close, kinda. | Single | West Haven | Connecticut | USA | LINK |
| Obscure Pop Culture Reference | Rock | The first song I've finished for RPM Challenge in the 16 years it's existed! | Single | | Nova Scotia | Canada | LINK |
| Oddities Afoot | Experimental | I've been really tired of being just a "musician" and not participate in any other artform for months now, even if I don't have an album to show for it. Consider this me signing off, as well as a potential jumping-off point when I sign back in. | Single | | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| oh not not again | Electronic | I enjoy making weird noises. Please enjoy the weird noises. | Single | Houston | Texas | USA | LINK |
| Old Black Cat | Folk | This one is a memorial to my old cat who passed away in December and is an exploration of grief. | EP | Colchester | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Oliver Hagen | Folk | These songs are all about or are inspired by D&D campaigns I've played in with my friends. They've been a great source of laughter over the years and after a recent shocking PC death, it felt right to attempt to commemorate all of the ups and downs. I initially planned on using only real instruments, and definitely leaned in that direction for the majority of the tracks, but MIDI is just too convenient. I did however manage to track some bass guitar and some accordion, which are both newish instruments for me. I think they came out decently, considering the deadlines involved. | EP | Reading | | UK | LINK |
| One Eyed Bastard Frog | Experimental | I made some songs that could be classified as bedroom pop with my computer and some other things. I think the tracks sound pretty good. | EP | Oberlin | Ohio | USA | LINK |
| Optic Arrest | Indie | The Ep is a collection of things I never released, have yet to release or released in a way that was fun but now I want to revisit. Also, with the commodore 64 sounds. I love video game music, so here we are. | EP | San Antonio | Texas | USA | LINK |
| Orange Hat | Experimental | I just wanted to see what I could do. | Single | Fredericksburg | Virginia | USA | LINK |
| Pale Wallace | Indie | It's a grizzly ride. | Album | Kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Papa Gra | Guitar | Playing the 1930's Vega my Papa left me & My Strat too | EP | | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| particledots | Electronic | | EP | Phoenix | Arizona | USA | LINK |
| Party Pandas | Rock | Trucks helps personify our experience of learning how to record an album (totally different than playing live…). We also pushed the boundaries of mixing stereo tracks through .5 ears due to an infection. So it was a month to say the least. | Album | Paradise | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Paste the Sky | Indie | A continuation on last year's Paste the Sky project. You can expect everything from stomping minor key anthems 'No Name Boy' to no budget Queens of the Stone Age with a drum machine 'The Bloody Archons' and the devastating closer of a suicide ballad 'The Inner Wrench.' | EP | Auckland | | New Zealand | LINK |
| Patient Whales | Indie | The goal for this RPM was less about quantity and more about deciding on a new musical direction. I specifically wanted to include vocals and songs that could be easily re-interpreted live. "A Few Questions" was the first attempt at capturing an idea, with more to come | Single | Hamilton | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| people you meet outside of bars | Singer-Songwriter | | Album | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Personal Space Invaders (Brian Downton) | Indie | A combination of 2 EP's... one with soft songs, the other with hard heavy songs. I picked a soft song for the listening public, but recommend checking out the HARD EP | Album | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Petty Vendetta | Indie | Wanted to slow things down a bit. Going for that trip-hop vibe. All tracks have a BPM below 90. | Album | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| pez piedra | Indie | just 4 little songs | EP | Zaragoza | | Spain | LINK |
| Phanomium and Andrew Heathwaite | Experimental | Various weird microtonal songs. | EP | Springfield | Illinois | USA | LINK |
| PHIL-IN-THE-BLANK | Indie | I made this to remind me of how I want to be in this life | EP | Kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| phog masheeen | Singer-Songwriter | These recordings travel a range of topics and styles. I wrote them one at a time. From a list of phrases I keep in my phone. Ideas for songs if you will. I built them and worked on them individually till they were done and I began again. There is no real "album" concept here. I did what I wanted to make the best song I could for the theme. I was fun! I think working fast simplifies decision making. I work early in the morning and use ideas from my dreams. Enjoy! | EP | Joshua Tree | California | USA | LINK |
| Pickleback Jack | Rock | There's songs about abuse. There's songs about eggs. And everything in between | Album | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Pink Kabunnikorn | Indie | A happy empowering song about being happy about oneself and being a confident spirit among the rainbows and clouds. | Album | Angel Fire | New Mexico | USA | LINK |
| pink smog | Experimental | 2.5 weeks of procrastination + 5 solid days of messy experimentation + 2 extra songs made by remixing a handful of my old recordings using ai = garbagetimes. inspired by seasonal depression, adhd, chronic pain, and a dire political landscape - made using auxy, garageband, and a novation launchkey mini MIDI keyboard. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| pins and needles | Classical | An assortment of low-fidelity solo piano compositions. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Platzangst | Electronic | I realized that some things I do could be called minimal, but I can't for the life of me define what "minimal" means in music these days. So I set out to make minimal, and I may have failed, or succeeded. Yes? or No? | Album | Muscatine | Iowa | USA | LINK |
| Polish Foot | Ambient | Modular synth explorations for a dark time | Album | Lincoln | Nebraska | USA | LINK |
| Poloma | Ambient | unfortunately only got one song done, but i think its pretty cool. made in reaper, mostly with pigments and stage 73. *penguin noise* | Single | where the penguins live | | Antarctica | LINK |
| Portending Honor | Rock | 1 part rock, 1 part funk, and 1 part acoustic combine to form our 7th full album! | Album | Bangor | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Postulating Oscillators | Rock | Recorded Live at the Ship Pub open mics in February | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| present guests | Ambient | a collection of ambient synth and guitar tracks recorded in the last week of February. | EP | Cranston | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| Psych Major (KJ Johnson) | Experimental | I made a sonic adventure in trauma processing? It's sad, but hopeful, I think. | EP | Providence | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| Psychic Sperm | Rock | Mad rush at the end. All discussion on Discord chat, all files shared on Google Drive. | Album | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| Pumpkin Mouth | Experimental | This is a real freaky ride. Yes. | Album | Kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| purity olympics | Noise | Made mostly with a microKORG, Koala Sampler, and some pedals, experimented with harsh vocals and poetry too. Recorded by my trusty H5 and produced/mixed/mastered in Audition. I set out to make some synth improvisations, just trying to get myself to make music for the first time in a long time; I ended up far more invested than anticipated and tried to include as many of my musical interests as I coherently could. | Album | Minneapolis | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| QLOI | Soundtrack | This is an additional soundtrack to the public domain film Night of the Living Dead. A baritone guitar, a bass, some effects pedals and a few found drumbeats were recorded to an 8 track. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Randy Beck | Comedy | my first RPM album. I made a joke that I had enough songs about khm- school to make an album. the next thing we knew we were writing this. the entire album is pretty much me singing and playing guitar recorded in my bedroom. some songs are more personal than others. | Album | St John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Rash MD | Punk | I aimed for the dead center of Double Nickels and Up on the Sun, two albums that I keep going back to again and again | Album | | Maryland | USA | LINK |
| Reconsider | Folk | The most angry, hopeful, vengeful, loving album I could write at the moment. I never get as far as I want with my RPM songs, but I'm proud of the bits I made here. Grateful for some assistance from my good friends Seth and Todd. | Album | Queens | New York | USA | LINK |
| Red Queen Hypothesis | Rock | These songs were recorded in tribute to my favorite song writers, my buddies. | Album | Noblesville | Indiana | USA | LINK |
| Ribbon | Experimental | | EP | St John’s | NL | Canada | LINK |
| richaux | Synth | It's a short track, appropriate for listening party! You'll hear synths & samples; Japanese violin & djembe; vocal synth gymnastics. The album is eclectic -- not sure what happened there. | Album | Brentwood | | UK | LINK |
| Ricia Rae | Singer-Songwriter | A collection of somewhat different styles made with a bunch of instruments and electronics. I called it Pulse due to some recent heart issues I've been having (I don't mean that metaphorically). Great to finished my 6th RPM. | Album | Waterloo | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Riley Wilk | Folk | A concept album in the form of a post-apocalyptic Seattle-area pirate radio broadcast - apartment recording with just ukulele and voice (and whistling). | Album | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| RINGPØN | Ambient | Hey Guys, it's Prince, I've changed my stage name to "RINGPØN" and this track is from my upcoming project that's going to be out in June, I've been working on it on and off for almost two years now, and I just began writing the lyrics, I think I upload one of the songs for one of the rem challenge last year, I wrote this particular song this month and thankfully completed recording it this month as well, although I would've like to create a separate project for the challenge, but I recently got into university and I don't really have the time and capacity to spread my attention, so I thought I'd just upload this and also show you guys what I've been up to recently, hope you like it, stay tuned for more. 🫶🏿 | Single | Lagos | | Nigeria | LINK |
| rissa | Electronic | A mix of vocals, viola and synths, love, lust and romance, prompts as starting points and following wherever my muse took me from there | Album | san francisco | California | USA | LINK |
| Ritzo Sphinx | Hip-Hop | Made on my phone and recorded with Bluetooth headphones... DIY or DIE | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Riverbeds | Singer-Songwriter | This is our second full-length RPM attempt, and we are using it to help build our original setlist | Album | Dover | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Rob Bile | Rock | A couple instrumentals about Christo Fascism | Single | Kalamazoo | Michigan | USA | LINK |
| Rob Hailman | Synth | countless struggles to find time and inspiration, and then a modest pile of synthesizers | Single | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Rob Parker | Rock | 13 rock songs. Some in odd time signatures, some with lots of 12-string guitar, some with some saxophone, lots of electric guitar and vocal harmoies. | Album | Methuen | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Ross Williams | Rock | Loved doing this challenge for the first time last year. I love writing music and it has been fun to whip it up and not maul over it or suck ilthe life out of anything. It's honest, from the heart music. Infact alot of these we're from a freestyle and ran with the takes I liked. Hope you like what I made and will definitely keep doing this! Looking forward to hearing what everyone else came up with as well! | Album | Saint John | New Brunswick | Canada | LINK |
| Rudy Sims | Rock | RPM 2025 | Album | East Kingston | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| sadcoolgirl | Indie | a love letter to finding my way back myself ♡ | EP | Concord | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Safest Outbound Sparrows | Experimental | This EP is a taster for a full length album I'm currently demoing, and it represents the two ends of my journey as a musician. I started with violin (and later viola) and playing in small string ensembles, then it was guitar music, and more recently I've been exploring the weirder end of things with my Safest Outbound Sparrows project. This EP is me trying to smash all (or most) of that together into something that doesn't sound like a complete mess! | EP | Chester | | UK | LINK |
| Saint Nameless | Rock | We're a new band still working on writing songs and finding our sound. Due to a bunch of extraneous circumstances (as well as an excessive dose of absent-mindedness by our producer/guitarist),we ended up recording this whole thing in one evening in our garage practice space. All the takes were done live and recorded off our mixing board via 3 stereo busses (and one stereo handheld recorder, for ambience). Editing and mixing were done in Studio One, and the final mixes were mastered with our fully analog processing/effects rack. | EP | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| sakejmith | Folk | Bluegrass-inspired banjo album made with help from friends and on a Tascam DP-24. | Album | Dover | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Salman Ahad | Experimental | I had big plans for this RPM but ended up not having the time/not making the time for it unfortunately. So I almost didn't submit one for the first time in five years! But then I got this idea to just get off my butt and at least make something so I ended up coming up with this concept of making ten 60 second tracks and call it 'Concept 60,' where the tracks would very much be inspired by Floex and the Machinarium Soundtrack using mostly samples from his website, but, again, life came in the way so I only got to four so thought I might as well submit what I have! | EP | Al Wakrah | | Qatar | LINK |
| Sam Wells Virtual Band | Rock | This song was put together using my virtual band of virtual instruments using my favourite DAW (Cubase). It features the virtual vocals of Felicia (Dreamtonics). No real instruments were harmed in the making of this recording. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| SANDO | Hip-Hop | These songs have been in my head for many many months I finally got to make them | EP | St Johns | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Sandra Glorkle | Dark | Sandra Glorkle, our favorite Amish electronic musician, touches the electric fence yet again this year to deliver twisted radio-circuitry-lofi madness as she rattles against the cages of her existence. | Album | Bothell | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Savory Flakes | Rock | Started in February, wrote the songs, wrestled them into shape, brought in drums by Savory Mike and Guitar / BU Vox by Savory Jim. All live instruments , no midi. And as this is an international forum, we really are sorry. | Album | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| Schmex | Dark | Some of us are helplessly watching our country burn while imbeciles fan the flames. | Single | Louisville | Kentucky | USA | LINK |
| Screamutter | Rock | This is Gordon Brown's Resignation speech. We picked this one as the first track because huxSLAY wanted to do it and our screamer is currently unavailable | Single | Swindon | | UK | LINK |
| Sean Lebrun | Jazz | This was a collaboration with some friends. We took a song that had all the bones and just needed the dressing. I love the result. | Single | Salisbury | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| SeaStar | Singer-Songwriter | We haven't done a band RPM since 2009. Every year 3 of our 4 members writes an album of their own. We added the band project and it was fun to write together! | EP | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Secret Connection | Noise | Solo instrumental work performed in a single take using strings and hands I had to learn how to use again. | Album | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Shaundar | Rock | Record in my little basement studio and it was the first time I recorded throughout most of the month. Proud of this album and it's consistency. | Album | Torbay | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Shrikethrush | Electronic | Instrumental DNB / IDM with some hip hop elements. | Album | Mount Pearl | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Shuttermouth | Punk | This was inspired by a recent trip to Yo Sushi in Bristol. We were watching some other customers who were clearly unfamiliar and so we imagined ourselves in their position. Sushi Riot! | Single | | | UK | LINK |
| SI6NL240 | Rock | Space rock one track at a time in Logic Pro. You never know what it's going to turn in to but we're all happy with it (but we're going to keep chiseling at it). | EP | Enid | Oklahoma | USA | LINK |
| Six Inch Tropicals | Pop | An exploration of exotica sounds with my own modern psychadelic twist, on top of a narrative about a mysterious doomsday cult. | EP | Chatham-Kent | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Sketches In Vain | Rock | Made in Ableton Live 12 in the span of basically 2 weeks. This track and a few others off the record forced me to use my pedalboard and craft sounds directly from it. I wanted this record to be a reepresentation of my current existence. It's filled with saddness, joy, triumph, and failure. And rippin riffs here and there. | EP | Edison | New Jersey | USA | LINK |
| Smoke Spectre | Rock | Smoke weed. Relax. Enjoy. | Single | Paradise | NL | Canada | LINK |
| SmokeyVW | Experimental | I experimented with writing a mass/spring/damper computer model. The intent was to use it to make a moderately large model to create sounds. I learned a lot about these sorts of models and how notoriously unstable they can be. The big battle for me was damping the network just enough to prevent run-away feedback, but not so much as to make static, unchanging sounds. I have lots more work to do on this. I got some reasonable bell-like sounds and a few crazy chaotic ones. I used what I had to create two songs. "Back And Birds" mixes a conventional bass instrument (in Garageband) with an unusual rhythm, plus some drums, a field recording of birds heard out my window, and one sound from the computer model played twice. "Evolving Bells" is made entirely for sounds made by my computer model. I cross-faded them in Garageband. | Single | Boston | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| sms | Electronic | i was trying to mess with different sounds and vocal alterations, because my usual material is pretty straightforward indie rock. i think i achieved that. | Single | Ferndale | Michigan | USA | LINK |
| snr | Folk | Another three-week challenge! | Album | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Space Without the Stars | Rock | Pulled from influences I've never previously went in. I leaned into an alt-country sound with a tinge of emo. | EP | Wilmington | Delaware | USA | LINK |
| Spaulding Sparks | Hip-Hop | A tale of depression, sliding into sublime acceptance | Album | Moreno Valley | California | USA | LINK |
| Spice Rack Collective | Rock | As has become a February tradition around here, four bandmates in North Alabama collaborated with some friends and loved ones to write and record some songs we had kicking around in our worried brains. We missed several of our other friends who couldn't join us for various reasons. Those of us who could make it assembled at our band's rehearsal studio on Saturdays in February to record, with additional arrangement/recording/editing occurring between sessions. We almost squeezed out an LP, but are perfectly content to have been able to put together a pretty solid EP, given *gestures vaguely around at everything*! | EP | Huntsville | Alabama | USA | LINK |
| Squeege | Experimental | A collaboration with a friend who moved to far away to be in a band with. Luckily we are able to use high tech computers and space stations to bridge the gap in our locations and still make noises at the same time. | Single | Indian Head | Saskatchewan | Canada | LINK |
| squelch | Synth | We wrote a synthwave inspired track with the intention to create a beat map for it in the VR rhythm game Synth Riders | Single | Saugus | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Stallions of Sound | Rock | I don;t want to talk about it. | EP | Maple Ridge | British Columbia | Canada | LINK |
| Stephen Portrie II | Indie | Inspired by the birth of my son last year and family time. | EP | South Berwick | Maine | USA | LINK |
| Steve Hoskins | Electronic | Its an album of electronic music largely done with a single synth. I made it while on the road for work. | EP | Mobile | NL | Canada | LINK |
| steven leak | Electronic | pale dense places. the spaces between light and shadow. grey scale with suggestions of colour in melodies that settle on the dusty eiderdown of life. | EP | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Stig Stilletto | Guitar | What happens when you play every day? | EP | Sydney Cove, Pork Island | NL | Canada | LINK |
| stone age cult | Rock | rpm is a tradition | Single | greenwood | Indiana | USA | LINK |
| Stuggs Attaway and Friends | Guitar | Music has a way of connecting threads we never expected, and this collection of songs does just that. "I Can't Believe It" brings together four distinct voices, each interpreting the same phrase in a completely unique way. From shimmering dance floors to dusty Appalachian coal towns, from grimy punk basements to quiet moments of acoustic reflection, these songs prove that music is as diverse as the hands that shape it. Hall of Mirrors - "I Can't Believe It (You're Electric)" Hall of Mirrors channels the neon glow and boundless energy of the '80s into every beat. Led by the ethereal Salomé Raphaëlle, their sound fuses pulsating synths with irresistible hooks. "I Can't Believe It (You're Electric)" is a testament to their ability to craft songs that feel like pure movement. Written by Raphaëlle and songwriter Stuggs Attaway, this track invites you to lose yourself in the music and let the rhythm take control. Bull Bunyan and the Pest Pressure - "I Can't Believe It (The Coalman, the Baron and the Hurrier)" This song is a left turn for Bull Bunyan and the Pest Pressure, best known for their raucous blend of bluegrass and punk. "The Coalman, the Baron and the Hurrier", written by lead singer Billy Mitchell and Stuggs Attaway, with evocative lyrics by SEAM, leans fully into Southern Gothic storytelling to paint a vivid and haunting tale of betrayal and revenge. No Bull Bunyan song is complete without facemelting runs on their distinctive banjo ukulele, and this song is no exception. Duck Shovel - "I Can't Believe It" Raw, urgent, and unapologetic, Duck Shovel takes a sledgehammer to societal complacency. Fronted by the ever-fierce Kaoleen, their music rages against the machine with anthemic power. Co-written by Kaoleen and Stuggs Attaway, "I Can't Believe It" is a blistering testament to frustration and disillusionment, delivered with the force of a basement show at full volume. Stuggs Attaway - "I Can't Believe It (But It's True)" Stripped down and deeply personal, Stuggs Attaway's contribution closes out the collection with warmth and sincerity. His songwriting, often reminiscent of dusty journals and late-night musings, shines here in an intimate love letter to his wife. "I Can't Believe It (But It's True)" is a quiet reflection on gratitude and devotion, a song where every note feels like a whisper meant for only one person—but one that anyone can feel in their bones. Four songs, four perspectives, one unifying phrase. "I Can't Believe It" isn't just a compilation; it's a journey through different worlds, tied together by the power of expression. Let these songs take you where they will. | EP | Dothan | Alabama | USA | LINK |
| SUCCULENT SUCCUBUS | Experimental | In a vibrant homage to the color pink and the Residents' seminal Commercial Album, one can draw parallels between the whimsical allure of the hue and the avant-garde artistry of the music contained within. Just as pink can evoke feelings of both playful nostalgia and deep introspection, Commercial Album takes listeners on a surreal journey through short, experimental tracks that challenge conventional structures. Each 1 minute piece, like splashes of pink across a canvas, offers a unique perspective, inviting reflection on the absurdities of modern life, consumer culture, and identity. | Album | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | LINK |
| Super Fragile California | Indie | Joyful, sad, dark and fun, PHEW started with simple constraints: a drum machine, Mellotron and bass, and quickly spiraled into something much more expansive. Stretching genres and collapsing categories, PHEW tells strange stories that you will recognize as your own. | Album | | California | USA | LINK |
| surfer jettes | Pop | This is the second "surfer jettes" album -- an entirely fictitious band. all instruments were played or programmed by preset1, including the vocals. | Album | Seattle | Washington | USA | LINK |
| Synaptic Disturbance | Metal | Doubled up with the King of the Riff challenge to write in Architects tuning | Single | Redmond | Washington | USA | LINK |
| SYSTEM OF THE BEAT | Hip-Hop | I made this album with a variety of apps including GroovePad, BandLab, and GarageBand. I mixed beats I made with found vocals on free sound.org (DZAN, 9Eleven, Blainksaint + many more). Thank you for listening! | Album | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| T.Z1 | Electronic | Made with a variety of sound apps- Groovepad, Bandlab, and Garageband. Mixed with found vocals on free sound.org. | Album | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania | USA | LINK |
| TA Walker | Rock | My original plan was for a 6-track EP, with electric guitars to the fore (I haven’t done this with non-instrumental works of mine for some years). Because “Events”… I eventually “only” managed a 3-track “single”, but I think these tracks are good enough not to hide 😎 The title track is the first time I’ve recorded with my new 12-string electric… and it won’t be the last! | Single | | | UK | LINK |
| TB8S | Experimental | This album focused on using a large trove of field recordings and voice memos I've gathered over the last few months, feeding them into modulators and samplers, and creating some shorter, loop-based jams that are in a much different direction than some of my more recent work. Using samples of church sermons, feeding my chickens, vocals of my daughters, and more made creating the resulting instrumental grooves more personal and satisfying than my usual method of sourcing samples from old commercials and other oddities. Some of the various influences on this album's concept and sound include Severance Season 2, Daredevil Seasons 1-3, Shoegaze, Boards of Canada, Panda Bear, Surf Rock, Toro y Moi, Steve Reich, Stereolab, yoga, and meditation. | Album | Burns | Tennessee | USA | LINK |
| Teenage Platypus | Indie | Just 2 tracks, contrasting moods, opposites and balance. | Single | Manchester | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Temenos | Electronic | Cinematic, cyberpunk electronica | EP | Tokyo | | Japan | LINK |
| Temporary Solution | Ambient | A wild ride directly composing into the daw. | Single | Grey Mountain | Arizona | USA | LINK |
| Terry Vernixx and Breaking Light | Ambient | In January my friend Terry sent me a 45 minute synth soundbed and asked me to add some guitar. Little did he know I would use it for my RPM project. | Album | Austin/Fort Worth | Texas | USA | LINK |
| Tessa Cecilia | Folk | A collection of three songs inspired by true family tales, conversations with pals and mid-winter daydreaming about crossing the country. | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Texturions | Rock | 18th year of RPM Challenge. 4 different DAWs and a lot of beer. | Album | Hinsdale | Illinois | USA | LINK |
| The Arlington Arguments | Indie | I managed to get through ten all new songs this year, but it was a struggle. My guitar skills are still pretty sub-par so I struggle to come up with ideas sometimes and then remember how to play them later. Also lyrical ideas came in at a trickle this year. The last four or five songs all came in a rush just a couple of days before the finish line. I will say that things I initially thought I hated and kept because I was running out of time are what I'm looking back on most fondly in the immediate afterglow of completing everything. As in previous years I reordered everything in my home studio, playing and singing all the parts as a one man band. No small feat considering at best I'd consider myself a drummer first, and a terrible singer! | Album | Clarksville | Indiana | USA | LINK |
| The Beaver Hall Group | Indie | traditional tunes reworked | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Chameleon Collective | Indie | We wrote an EP in a month, everything recorded live off the floor in a living room | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Color Out Of Space | Metal | It's the first track for this new project, the start of a Lovecraftian black metal epic | Single | | | USA | LINK |
| The Crooked Barn Collective | Indie | This is an improv album made in a barn in Maine in 2 hours. | Album | Kittery | | USA | LINK |
| The Cropdusters | Metal | I dont enjoy writing lyrics, so i just used the Tree of Life poem | Single | Dawson city | Yukon | Canada | LINK |
| THE DEVIL WOOD PROJECT | Noise | I've been experimenting with guitar pedals and decided to make a noisy, improvised track for RPM this year. With everything going on in the world right now I felt inspired to sample audio from the show "The West Wing." The album cover is pretty self-explanatory, I just wanted to express y feelings about the current US government and used a graffiti/spray-painted style to do so. This project is mostly for fun, I don't really expect anyone to listen to it but if you do that's cool. Thanks everyone and see you for RPM 2026! | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Handsanitigers | Indie | My daughter and I have been recording little things here and there for years. Each February is like a playground of imagination and possability.It's both a way to be creative and memorialize a point in time with one another, its pretty great! | Album | Springfield | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| The Interposed | Electronic | An opportunity to ponder the future. | EP | Union | Maine | USA | LINK |
| The Law Offices Of Davis And Dresnok | Rock | This album was an exercise in collaboration and trying to write outside of our normal wheelhouse. | Album | Cumberland | Maine | USA | LINK |
| The Longest, Coldest Winter (various artists) | Indie | This is a compilation based on the title, The Longest, Coldest Winter. | Album | Kittery | Maine | USA | LINK |
| The Lost & Found | Folk | This was the first venture that The Last and Found has made into writing originals and we came out with a bunch of promising material to develop. | EP | St John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Maadmen | Indie | We made a record about censorship and all the ugly things that notorious leaders will do to ensure that all of us comply and stay in the dark. It is all about remembering your irreverence. We enlisted the help of some fantastic Japanese Taiko players to aid in the percussive elements of the album. | Album | Urayasu | | Japan | LINK |
| The Martin Gachiri Experience | Hip-Hop | | Album | Hacienda Heights | California | USA | LINK |
| The Monkey Funky Gang | Folk | We are an awesome class of Grade 4 super humans in St John's, NL. If you like pickles, dino nuggies and laughing out band is for you! We made the whole album in our classroom. | Album | St John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Mourners | Dark | Made using The Koala Sampler & Ableton Live. These are all vibs about my dads death. Love ya Pops. | Album | San Antonio | Texas | USA | LINK |
| The Nathans | Rock | We made an intense track with loud, distorted riffs that represent insanity, with one song soft rock making it seem like everything is sad after the craziness that the artist has gone through. We, The Nathans, made this in music class, using instruments such as the electric guitar, bass and drums. We made this with the idea that the songs represent someone losing their mind, filled with regret in the song 'Downfall' and then becoming out of control in the final song. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Natural Casings | Rock | One more porker in the smoker! Bout this time every year, we get the boys together... | EP | Manchester | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| the owl and the octopus | Experimental | A collection of field recordings, small improvisations, and randomness. | Album | Hanoi | | Viet Nam | LINK |
| The Pools | Singer-Songwriter | I am the solo artist. In love with my home and making music. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Real Michael Boone | Hip-Hop | It's pretty obvious. We sacrificed a human child and then translated the unholy messages we received into hip hop. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Relectrics | Retro | I made a communication because some things should not be left unsaid. As to how I made it: The Muse made it, I was just there. | Album | Meredith | | Albania | LINK |
| the Robinovitches | Soundtrack | This is a collection of loud and quiet instrumentals. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| The Scootio Presents | Experimental | | Album | Dover | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| The Sidewalk Boys | Folk | Well, the RPM Challenge got us back! They said it was year 20 of the Challenge... so we got together (remotely, none-the-less, from three states) and ended up hitting the mark with 10 new songs! | Album | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| The Spinal Chord Stim Lab | Electronic | Our second attempt at a record, the record is mostly live samples by the musician collective then chopped or glued together to make the songs. It was not always sucessful but we did our best | Album | The Bucket | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| The Strawberry Farm Band | Rock | This recording is made the Picknell family featuring the banjo and more. Fantasy theme this year! | Album | Bath | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| The Tropes | Guitar | I made a rock & roll song about the end of the world. It’s special to me because it’s unhinged but purposeful, raw but finished. I put it together with drums, bass, a ton of guitars, and a lot of singing. It’s got a wild energy that comes from doing it yourself—messy, chaotic, but still complete. | Single | Austin | Texas | USA | LINK |
| The Vague Miracles | Electronic | | Album | Saint Paul | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| The Wizards of Vomit | Guitar | Gallileous Intergalactic Cavemen Collective VS the Slowjoint Pigeon Trashbirds describes the epic battle between Gallileous Intergalactic Cavemen Collective and the Slowjoint Pigeon Trashbirds (obviously). This year I planned to finish ideas and starts of songs from the past 5 years, instead of writing new songs. This because something tells me I may have little time to work on music for the next 18 years or so. Nonetheless, I could not stop myself from still writing new songs, so this years album is a mix of some new songs and some older ideas and projects I have been sitting on. The (collection of songs that is just long enough to be called an) album features dreamy guitar delays, slow and heavy stoner riffs and plain weird experimental guitars, all describing the battle between GICC and the Trashbirds. | Album | Utrecht | | Netherlands | LINK |
| These Dogs Today | Synth | It's done | Album | columbus | Ohio | USA | LINK |
| Thetworegs | Singer-Songwriter | I wrote and recorded it during the first week of February. It took 6 days to write and recorded. | Album | Sheffield | | UK | LINK |
| This is Terrible | Rock | a real slapper; a set of bangers for banging your mind | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Thorny Music | Electronic | Fernweh is that moment you sit twilight, looking out over the the vibrance of a city you’ve never visited. This is the first time I have made something close to a dance track. It was a fun exploration, and started very diferently. I am satisfied where it ended up. I have been rolling with the RPM challenge for 4 or 5 years now, and couldn’t let it pass. This is the one time of year I do force myself to finish something. Made on an OP1 Mixed and mastered in IOS on Cubasis. | Single | Wilton | Connecticut | USA | LINK |
| Three Pregnant Men | Experimental | we're giving birth to these songs. yeah. let's get to work. | EP | Waterloo | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Tim Carroll | Guitar | Instrumental alternative rock song. First full recording I've made in years. Started with guitars trying to make something with a different feel and it evolved into something completely different. | Single | Savannah | Georgia | USA | LINK |
| Tim Hazelton | Folk | This is an album of demos that hopefully I will flesh out in the future. Some are random things from my teaching job, some are from just regular life, and some are from my messed up mind! Recorded acoustic and electric guitar, ukulele, bass and vocals into GarageBand. | Album | Holderness | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Time Lions | Pop | | Single | St. John’s | NL | Canada | LINK |
| timmiea | Country | open up and get it out | Album | toronto | Ontario | Canada | LINK |
| Toby M. Schreier | Ambient | An exploration in aleatoric composition and unsynched, phasing loops. Mostly unedited meditations, recordings of a process: searching for calm and peace. | Album | Zürich | | Switzerland | LINK |
| Todd's Friend Sam | Pop | A re-creation of some old songs from 1998. | EP | Rochester | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Tom Swafford | Experimental | It's inspired by current events- it also has a special guest appearance by my cat! | Album | Providence | Rhode Island | USA | LINK |
| Tonal Shift | Metal | This is our first record, it's metal and hardcore with some experimental elements. We used a two-input interface and powered through the issues | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| TotoRobyn | Ambient | This album is a purely ambient journey using synthesizers. The majority of this album was composed from modular synthesis with an emphasis on various effects. This album is special to me because one of my goals in 2024 was to learn modular synthesis and find how my style of ambient applies to this format. | Album | Boston | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Touch My Midas | Comedy | Songs that have been sitting unfinished for 10+ years | EP | Foster City | California | USA | LINK |
| Trackzero | Rock | Adhoc guitar and drums | EP | Tucson | Arizona | USA | LINK |
| Travis Hatcher | Indie | I plucked a few songs from a folder of tunes I always thought I'd record but never did, until it was RPM time and the crunch was on and this year I decided not to write everything too becuase I lost a week of work time from being on the road for gigs. Some of these songs are over 10 years old, but they were all recorded and put together in a flurry of beer and smoke in 3 weeks to finish the RPM challenge before I start recoding projects that are going to take significantly more time while I await RPM 2026 | EP | Westphal | Nova Scotia | Canada | LINK |
| TrmnSl136 | Synth | It is a complication of many things I made in February. | Album | Tigard | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| tsunami.jpeg | Ambient | Tsunami.jpeg will always be a very personal project for me. When I get the downtime to sit with my own thoughts, I try to channel those emotions in the music of Tsunami.jpeg. And this EP captures my feelings this February | EP | Merced | California | USA | LINK |
| tukdam | Guitar | grooves and melodies. synths blended with guitars. an assault of hooks hoping to catch the earworm bait. DAW-less. Battery-powered mini guitar amp into one synthesizer. Simple, yet challenging. | Album | Oakland | California | USA | LINK |
| Turtle Fur | Experimental | Tracks for dubbing pleasure | Album | Dover | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Twillingreat | Singer-Songwriter | This was a collaborative from many people living in or near Twillingate. it was Recorded by Mike McDonald in a shed studio and was a ton of fun to make! | Album | Twillingate | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Two Hippopotamus | Rock | Our second RPM. Feb is the bestest month! This time One Hippo recorded drums over the other hippo's keys, then that hippo recorded everything else over the first hippo's drums. What a hoot! We'll be seeing you all next Feb for sure. | Single | wellington | | New Zealand | LINK |
| Ultramammoth | Indie | This is the first Ultramammoth release in over 10 years and the first with one of my kids. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Unthank | Experimental | This is an EP, not entirely finished, celebrating the work of David Lynch. Each track is inspired by a different piece of his work and several feature words written by my wife who is working on her own project celebrating his work. | EP | Ayrshire | | UK | LINK |
| ustaknow | Guitar | These three of this Single, as most of mine are, are free flow thought, word jumble then re-orchestrated after letting it sit for a while. Much of what "inspires" me is my environment in my daily routine, snippets of stuff that I then relate back to something; in this case, it was these tracks this February 2025. In how I see my work, it's to allow the listeners own "mind pictures", as I call them, to form and mean whatever it may, to them. "Bloddy we go" is from 2015, when it was first bounced and not touched until now - I did/do (my method) many "5 min write while recording" bounce tracks. It's all flow of thought, lyric, melody, orchestration, 1st pass 1 take. For me, often, if it's not something I care for, that's it. However, as with this one from 2015 - I often am in a mindset that may not recognize some value in it. This February, I did, and here it is. And, fyi, the title was nothing more than part of the free flow that got jotted down, recorded. | Single | Barnegat | New Jersey | USA | LINK |
| Valmy | Singer-Songwriter | exploring vocal textures, transition, and resistance | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| valuerock.com | Singer-Songwriter | I made a hit record! I thought I'd get more done, but I slapped this together today! | Single | Ferndale | Michigan | USA | LINK |
| ventilationsystems | Electronic | I planned for this to be an ep original but couldn’t finish any other songs but honestly I’m pretty happy with how this turned out, the song was mostly made from a recording I made a few weeks ago (up to now) | Single | | Vermont | USA | LINK |
| Verdin Brothers | Folk | Strings, noises, ghosts, and fauns | Album | | Minnesota | USA | LINK |
| Vidi Games | Soundtrack | Original video game music looking to be paired with video games. | Album | Quidi Vidi | NL | Canada | LINK |
| vivi mouse | Electronic | i gathered 27 prompts from friends at the beginning of the month and wrote one track per day until the 28th | Album | atlanta | Georgia | USA | LINK |
| VolksDroog | Indie | Recorded it solo...just let whatever happen happen. One thing led to another; it was fun, as always. | Album | Newmarket | New Hampshire | USA | LINK |
| Walter Noons | Singer-Songwriter | Eleven songs - quasi Bossa Nova | Album | Boston | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys | Indie | TWENTY Years of RPM and Counting A note from Edrie: Twenty years ago, the RPM Challenge kicked off an artistic fever dream that’s still raging. It’s how Walter and I met, and since then, February has been a month of absolute chaos, creativity, and major life moments—our daughter Wednesday (now 10!) was born, plays were premiered, jobs were lost (and found),homes were packed and unpacked, weddings were thrown, snowstorms were battled, and yes, albums were made. No matter what, we always found time to make some noise. In 2023, Walter hit pause on BUNKER BUDS, our daily dystopian talk show built to bring some joy into the end-times. By 2024, they were back, and in 2025, BUNKER BUDS has become an essential life force in these times of hardship for our community. It stands as a beacon of love and acceptance, fighting fascism with love and tentacles—because art, music, and resistance are always intertwined. Now, let’s talk about our 20th RPM album, Brick Through A Limousine. This one’s a big one—twenty years of albums, twenty years of mischief, and twenty years of the best damn people making it all worthwhile. And this year? It’s got a special touch—Wednesday, who’s been part of nine albums in all kinds of ways, is making her violin debut on The Dust Moat Atmosphere. She’s been absorbing music her whole life, and now she’s in the mix, bow in hand, carving out her own sound. Also, if you’re wondering why we didn’t release this on February 28th—it’s because we stood in solidarity with the BUY NOTHING protest against the economic and cultural brutality being inflicted upon us. We refused to participate in a system that thrives on exploitation and suffering. So we held off. And now, on March 1st, we come bearing noise, love, and a whole lot of tentacles. To RPM, to the artists who keep showing up, and to everyone who keeps making weird, wonderful things in the face of whatever madness the world throws at us—thank you. Let’s keep making noise. Love & Tentacles Edrie, Walter, Wednesday, and the Broken Toys March 1, 2025 www.patreon.com/WalterAliceSickert instagram.com/armyoftoys twitter.com/armyoftoys facebook.com/armyoftoys myspace.com/armyoftoys ARMYOFTOYS.com | Album | Townsend | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
| Wanderer Born | Field Recording | I recorded bird sounds in Brazil a couple of months ago, took them home and made music from it; guitar instrumentals, kinda folk-rocky. Not too wanky. | Album | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| We Brewis Easily | Spoken Word | It's a live single recorded by Jake Nicoll. Thanks Jake! | Single | St. John's, | NL | Canada | LINK |
| WGP | Electronic | This 4-track EP is a burst of electronic energy, blending guitars, synths, and digital grooves into a sound that’s fun, danceable, and full of life. The secret sauce? Rhythm + Passion = Motion — every beat, riff, and melody is designed to get you moving. Made with pure joy (and no drugs!),this project is all about creativity, spontaneity, and good vibes. From shimmering synths to infectious guitar licks, WGP RPM Challenge 2025 - EP3 is a celebration of sound, motion, and the sheer thrill of making music. | EP | Berlin | | Germany | LINK |
| White Air | Retro | Inspired weekends and evenings in February. | Album | lincoln | Nebraska | USA | LINK |
| Wide-open Wendy and the Flaming Headers | Rock | this is our first song we've recorded together | Single | | | USA | LINK |
| Wilfried Hanrath | Spoken Word | Taking part in the anual RPM Challenge has become very important for me. I love the motto - make music in february just because you can. What´s new, this year I had the idea of applying the idea to all months, so I will continue tomorrow with "make music in march just because you can". The music on my album is a wild mixture of sketches, and finished and mastered pieces. Some of it is music I made on my own, some of it is music from collaborations | Album | Wuppertal | | Germany | LINK |
| Will Tonna | Dance | A labour of love for a time-gone-by, when mulitplayer was split-screen and controllers were wired. Produced on the Digitakt 2, mixed and mastered in Reaper. | EP | Leicester | | UK | LINK |
| wilsun | Indie | Took an old, unfinished song, added a second half, rewrote/wrote some more lyrics, and produced quite a sad song. | Single | Cranford | New Jersey | USA | LINK |
| Winston B | Electronic | It is an instrumental lofi electronic album based on the alarm sound of my microwave (which is in 9/8 btw). | Album | Lille | | France | LINK |
| Wrist Phantom | Metal | I had been having a rough time with mental health lately and I figured what better genre to express that through than DSBM (depressive suicidal black metal),an entire sub-genre of extreme metal dedicated to expressing that. It's my first time experimenting with the genre and I'm pretty happy with the result. I wanted to do a full album with 8 tracks but ended up running out of time, so the other 3 songs will probably come out as an EP in the future. | EP | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | LINK |
| WXO | Rock | This is a MIDI demo of a to-be-precorded track for a progressive rock album I want to make. This was the last piece I needed to complete the album. The music itself is a bubbling quirky barn-burner that bounces from influence to influence at a fast pace. For Yes fans out there, I originally wanted to call this Newfoundland Khatru... and I still might. Something that I did again in this piece that I love doing, but missed doing for a while, was building a big fortress out of ostinatos, repeating it, and fading out. That occurs in part two though ;). You get the vibe of travelling back through all the areas in a game you've beaten 100%. The second track is a joke edit of the original piece. I vertically flipped all the notes in the MIDI clips so that notes that went up go down now at the identical interval and vice versa. The results are very strange but surprisingly musical. You really don't want to miss it. | EP | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Wyatt Hirschfeld Shibley | Guitar | I wanted to release a few songs, but ultimately settled on just this one. I feel that it sets the tone for the kind of music I've been writing for the past few years. | Single | Harbour Main | NL | Canada | LINK |
| X5s | Electronic | I had been rolling around the idea all Feb but couldn't dedicate enough time, the extension helped me at least get one track done. | Single | San Diego | California | USA | LINK |
| Yugo en Fuego | Synth | This time out, I wanted to dispense with melody and chords changes and play with more noise and textures, although I'm not sure the album ended up being as noisy as I had originally planned. This is just my second completed RPM Challenge; I'm now 2 for 4, and I'm happy to have completed the project. | Album | Portland | Oregon | USA | LINK |
| Zach Goudie | Singer-Songwriter | I only managed a single, but it still rocks! | Single | St. John's | NL | Canada | LINK |
| Zach Kaas | Experimental | I set out to make a healing album. I wanted to make music that could theoretically end up on a psychedelic medicine playlist, however what comes out of me is usually a lot of dark, insidious, and jarring vibes, so I'm not sure that would go very well. Being exceedingly busy left me with only about 4 days to complete the whole project. I booked time in a diy studio and recorded a few hours of material (videoed it too, just in case I want to do something with it later),and proceeded to come home to edit and overdub synthesizers. Recorded in Logic, but all the creative work was done in Ableton. Somehow managed to use no software instruments! | Album | Boston | Massachusetts | USA | LINK |
