Podcasts about rpm challenge

In this episode, Charles sits down with TJ Horn, a Boston-area drummer who has played with several bands — most notably the critically acclaimed Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys. Beyond his drumming career, TJ is a passionate live music fan who set a personal record in 2025 by attending 75 concerts in a single year. He's also known in certain Boston circles for his live readings of erotic fan fiction. It's a wide-ranging conversation about music, performance, and what it means to love live shows. TJ traces his passion for live music back to a 1994 Depeche Mode concert at the Blockbuster Pavilion in Glen Helen, California — a show his uncle brought him and his family to when he was just 12 years old. That night sparked a lifelong obsession. That same year, his uncle also took him to Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, and the legendary Lollapalooza '94 — where TJ saw the Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, L7, and a then-unknown Green Day, just weeks before they exploded in popularity. Over the years, TJ has accumulated remarkable concert stories: chatting with Fred Durst for 40 minutes at Ozzfest while watching Tool, seeing Porno for Pyros perform a surprise acoustic set on a walkway at Lollapalooza '95, and stumbling upon a tiny 40-person Touché Amoré show after standing in the snow for a wristband. His 75-show year in 2025 came about naturally — fueled by a wide network of friends with different musical tastes, a work schedule that freed up his evenings, and a simple philosophy of saying yes when a cheap ticket or a spare invite came along. On the music-making side, TJ is a self-taught drummer who got his start playing along to Green Day and the Ramones in his bedroom as a military kid who had just moved to Boston. He's gone on to play with bands spanning punk, hardcore, and art-rock, including The Martyrs and a rock opera project featuring Amy Winehouse's saxophonist and members of The Replacements. His longest creative relationship has been with Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys — a theatrical "steam crunk" band known for elaborate costumes, steampunk conventions, annual RPM Challenge albums, and now an upcoming horror sci-fi film directed by Walter himself. TJ also speaks fondly of the erotic fan fiction readings that made him unexpectedly famous in Boston's burlesque and cosplay scene — a side gig that started with dramatic readings of bad dating app messages and turned into a crowd-favorite variety act. For more from TJ, find him on Instagram at @tjbrokenproton. BANDS: A Tribe Called Quest, Amy Winehouse, Beastie Boys, The Boredoms, Boy's Life, The Breeders, Bridgit Calls Me Baby, Coal Chamber, Converge, Cyndi Lauper, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Dropbear, Eagles of Death Metal, Elastica, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Face to Face, Fight, George Clinton, Green Day, Hole, Jack White, Jay-Z, L7, Lady Gaga, Less Than Jake, Letters to Cleo, Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Ministry, Motörhead, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy Osbourne, Porno for Pyros, Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, Rosalía, Salt-N-Pepa, sapling, Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins, Shonen Knife, Soulfly, Stellastar, Stereolab, Suicidal Tendencies, The Killers, Tool, Touché Amoré, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys. VENUES: Blockbuster Pavilion (Glen Helen, CA), Boston Garden, The Middle East (Boston), San Diego State University's Aztec Bowl. LINKS: TJ Instagram: @tjbrokenproton. Walter Sickert movie "Ashwire": https://www.fangoria.com/ashwire-trailer/ PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/SeeingThemLivePlease help us defer the cost of producing this podcast by making a donation on Patreon.WEBSITE - BECOME A GUEST:https://seeingthemlive.com/Visit the Seeing Them Live website and click on the link to fill out a form so we can consider you as a guest on the show.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/seeingthemlive/FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550090670708

Welcome to the replay of the live-to-air broadcast originally aired on Monday, June 16, 2025. In this episode, you'll hear my exclusive interview with 19-year-old Caden Stock, a three-time national kickboxing champion from Torbay, NL.Next, join me for a lively chat with Da Bye's from Big Jib as they celebrate the release of their debut album. And, of course, don't miss our weekly conversation with Angie Reid from the Dildo Brewery.Enjoy fresh tracks from SUMLEO alongside Chris Donnelly, both featuring the intriguingly titled song "Night Owl." Chris's version dates back to 2007 for the RPM Challenge, while SUMLEO's rendition just dropped this past week.Remember to like, share, and follow, and be sure to hit the notification bell to stay updated on all new uploads. You can always catch the show live on Monday nights at 6 PM ET / 7:30 PM NL at www.mix985.ca.Now, let's get this show on the go—hit play!

It's time for your favorite all-Newfoundland and Labrador music show, broadcasting live from right here in Kitchener-Waterloo, ON. This is the only show that goes live to air from outside NL. This episode was recorded on Monday, March 10, 2025.On today's show, you'll hear an interview with Ben Chapman-Smith of Lost & Found, where we discuss the annual RPM Challenge that takes place every February. Plus, brand new music from Dram & A Draw and Mychaela.I'll also be counting down the top 3 songs from our very first monthly NL music top 10 chart. Just a reminder that all the new songs featured on our "New Music Monday" segment are eligible for votes to determine the exclusive all-NL monthly top 10.And that's not all - I'll be chatting with Angie Reid from the Dildo Brewery about what's in store for Paddy's Day, plus playing as much incredible Newfoundland and Labrador music as I can fit into two rockin' hours.Don't forget, the live broadcast happens every Monday night at 6pm ET / 7:30pm NL on www.mix985.ca. Let's get this party started!

A group of musicians in Twillingate is recording an RPM Challenge album called Twillingreat

From a few chords to a new album. We meet the young string players from Strong Harbour Strings, who made an album for the RPM Challenge.

In this second part of this episode, Serene speaks frankly about his worst-ever album or least loved album anyway. Cutting Tailor Modern is the sixth of eight albums he recorded for the RPM Challenge in the month of February, 2015 (where you record a whole album in 28 days).  It didn't get released so much as it escaped, with Serene trying to get other people to record the individual songs as Onus Records' Single of the Weekend instead of pushing a latest album under people's noses.Among the topics discussed in this next  batch of songs: royalty free sax,  loss of faith, U2,  the six or seven stages of grief,  Donovan, Levi Stubbs Jr. and Richard Nixon's farewell speech to the White House staff.Songs include "E.T.A.," "The Fight In Me," "I Am the Perpetrator," "What's 1 More Soul 2 the Devil?"  "Shoulda Never Left,"  "Passionless" and  "Come On Richard."Click here to stream the entire Cutting Tailor Modern album.Click here to read the backstory of The Dee Cups and hear their identical version of   "I Am the Perpetrator."Click here to read the backstory of Donna Fortunata and hear Margo Brookover's version of "What's 1 More Soul 2 the Devil?."Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominicClick here to learn about the history and  guidelines of The RPM Challenge.Click here to take part in The Rpm Challenge.*

Dee and Michael talk with special guest Anu Kirk (Rhapsody, Playstation VR, Spatializer) about the past, present, and future of spatial audio, the time Eddie Van Halen gave Anu a guitar, the pressure to finish and achieve, what it takes to "make your year", why spatial/360 audio doesn't make sense but people are going to try it anyhow, streaming services, the album experience, audio movies, and more...  --- Links to check out related to us and our conversation...Stephen Desper (Beach Boys engineer)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_DesperSpatializer Prohttps://reverb.com/item/1424197-desper-spatializerSpatializer Retrohttps://reverb.com/item/18093688-desper-sr-1-spatializer-retro-whiteSpatial Audio Remix cost (Anu quote):  "Cost per song is somewhere between $1,500-$2,000.  For a 10 song album on the low-end that would be $15k" RPM Challenge https://www.rpmchallenge.com/Releases doing this spoken word / soundtrack thing he was talking about:https://hyperdub.bandcamp.com/album/on-vanishing-landhttps://johnfoxx.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-man This is what got me thinking about it: https://willburnshannahpeel.bandcamp.com/album/chalk-hill-blueJoe Frank:https://www.joefrank.com/Oblique Strategies app:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oblique-productive-strategies/id902143877Oblique Strategies Deck on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Oblique-strategies-hundred-worthwhile-dilemmas/dp/B0000EEZG9--- Dee & Michael:Michael HateleyLotus Masteringhttp://lotusmastering.com/ Extra Fancy "You Look Like a Movie Star" videohttps://youtu.be/0pE1TqlWHCkBaldyloks (Michael Hateley & John Napier)https://soundcloud.com/baldyloks-1Dee Maddenhttps://www.deemadden.com/Penal Colony “Blue 9” videohttps://youtu.be/Fes9E3ea8FYDee on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4jsYxJ4QxzoGn9t0HRllPk 

This week we sit down with Kyleigh Brisson. An incredibly talented, Joni Mitchell-esque artist from the west coast of NL, who just released her debut EP during the 2021 RPM Challenge!! Special thanks to Matt Cole for writing our new theme song! It slaps! You can hear the show on: CHMR-FM Radio Bell Island QCCR-FM Phantom FM Radio Webphré Spotify Google Podcasts

At 75 years young, our next guest just recorded her first album!

FOLLOW/SUPPORT ME! linktr.ee/thejillpower This week we're featuring Cara Lee Coleman - a unique indie rock musician from NL, who participates heavily in the RPM Challenge each year! Special thanks to Matt Cole for writing our new theme song! It slaps! You can hear the show on: CHMR-FM Radio Bell Island QCCR-FM Phantom FM Radio Webphré Spotify Google Podcasts

For seven consecutive years, Serene Dominic took the RPM Challenge and wrote and recorded an entire album in the month of February. Now in this talk-and-music analysis series, Serene and co-host Steve Asetta musical director of All Is Forgiven? and the upcoming Dark Lullaby podcast (coming in season 3) give track by track running commentary through these eight home-recorded albums.Our discussion continues on the rest of the Unnatural Blonde album, which was written to be a song by song companion to Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic Vertigo. Serene And Steve banter a lot about the movie and decide their Jimmy Stewart impersonations needs work. Other topics of discussion include unwitting percussion instruments and dangerous projectiles given for free at Yankees games, Kim Novak's Groucho eyebrows, that season of Dallas that was all a dream and of course, death.Songs include "Pinch Me," "This Means No," "It Is What It Is," "Dress You, Paint You," "Can't Unring a Bell," "Up! Up! Up1 (In three movements!)" and "Overwhelming Dream."Click here to watch Serene Dominic condense the entire Vertigo movie into a ten-minute musical.Click here to stream the entire Unnatural Blonde album.Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominicClick here to read Serene's review of Jackie Gleason's The NOW Sound ... For Today’s Lovers album in Detroit Metro Times.

For seven consecutive years, Serene Dominic took the RPM Challenge and wrote and recorded an entire album in the month of February. Now in this talk and music analysis series, Serene and co-host Steve Asetta musical director of All Is Forgiven? and the upcoming Dark Lullaby podcast (coming in season 3) give track by track running commentary through these eight home-recorded albums. In this episode the pair analyze the Unnatural Blonde album which was written to be a song by song companion to Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic Vertigo. Other conversational tangents left unanswered I can filed here including when helicopters were first invented (1936), Nino Roto's disqualified Best Original Score Oscar nomination for The Godfather (the recycled score was withdrawn, ineligible and replaced by a nomination for Sleuth ), and where else do we know the actor who played Gavin Elster in Vertigo (he played Sir Halsey Hopewell in Flipper's New Adventure). No, thank you!Songs include "Swimming in the Head," "You'll Never Let Me Go," "Drop of a Hat," "I Stalk Around," "Dream Along with Me Darkly," "In Bed By Nine" and "All That Love Has Worn Away." Click here to watch Serene Dominic condense the entire Vertigo movie into a ten-minute musical.Click here to stream the entire Unnatural Blonde album.Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:30 MST on facebook.com/serenedominicClick here to read Serene's review of Jackie Gleason's The NOW Sound ... For Today’s Lovers album in Detroit Metro Times.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman connect virtually with Tomás Shea, a chiptune, electro swing musician who goes by the name Game Boy! GAME BOY debuted his first album “Press Start” following the 2017 RPM Challenge. The Newfoundland resident’s music is a sublime mixture of Electro Swing, EDM, with melodic Chiptune nostalgia! A mechanical engineer by day, Tomas is a tinkerer with an adorable family. Tune in to learn about Tibb’s Eve (a tradition we’d be foolish not to adopt), how you can become an honorary Newfoundlander, and other Newfoundland facts from our first ever international guest! Hear about why Tomas started making music, how he hopes his tunes will make listeners feel, and more in this episode. Check out Game Boy on Bandcamp: www.game-boy.bandcamp.com. As always, come hang out with the Creative Guts team online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast

Today, the story behind the theme music for "In Here, Out There" — a track from almost exactly 10 years ago, called 'False Pretenses', written by ... me! (kinda). Info on RJDJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RjDj Info on RPM Challenge (it's still a thing!): https://rpmchallenge.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/inhereoutthere/message

On this episode, Jake and Sean are joined by long-time friend of the pod and composer of the Listen In Podcast theme music, Ian Hughes. Ian talks about his new musical project, Brú na Bóinne, which started as part of the RPM Challenge to write and record an album in one month. He discusses his new album and the inspiration for his new project. He also plays a couple songs live, in-studio (Ian's basement), for your listening enjoyment. Sean, Jake and Ian also discuss the slew of new albums that have come out over the past week, including new releases from Weezer, Frankie Cosmos, The Last Shadow Puppets, Explosions in the Sky, Black Mountain, and Cam Boucher's new project Small Circle.

Jazz trombonist Nick Syman has challenged himself to write a large jazz ensemble piece based on the St. Anthony Falls collapse in 1869. Nick talks about how using a story can help you structure an instrumental piece of music. Nick also explains how the tension and release system of Afro-Cuban rhythms can help make more compelling melodies. And finally, we talk about our experience starting and finishing our Cagetones album in one month last February, for the RPM Challenge.

The gang is back and may be drinking a bit much. Ern is all married and shit. Doc does the News and a Korean Prostitute. Sam makes himself a wireless guitar system. Dane completes the RPM Challenge and brings in some music. Keith brings in some Monkees stuff. Davey Jones and the guitar player from Riot kick the proverbial bucket. Call the comment line at (206) 309-7308. Thanks for listening.

The gang is back and hitting the beer at a good pace. Doc has a family emergency and can't make the podcast. Dane is going to do the RPM Challenge and Sam is leaning towards doing it. Keith is still waiting for more horsepower. A real hot beefstick is passed around between the guys (you can take that anyway you want). Andy Samford does The Partridge Family. The guys listen to some Crumudgeon with The Gunk UK. Saturday Morning TV from years gone by. Call the comment line at (206) 309-7308. Feel free to leave anything you like on the Insignificast Facebook page. Hear Andy Samford at electricminnowmusic.com. Hear Crumudgeon and The Gunk UK on facebook and listen to the Gunkcast podcast. Check out the Letter Seventeen podcast and dig on the music. Also check out our friend Manny The Mailmans Special Delivery podcast and also our friends at Static Radio. And of course the For Whatever Reason podcast. Thanks for listening.

This week Tony Butterworth and Dave Criddle narcissistically play their own songs.  7 tunes out of last months 20 created for the RPM Challenge www.rpmchallenge.com. Even more confusingly this is one without them being in the same "studio" since they can no longer bare to be in each others presence.  Give it a list and you'll understand.To find more.  http://thetones.bandcamp.com/album/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-strummerhttp://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=723841&content=musicThe songs:Dave - RichTony - Dressed In BlackDave - PunkTony - I'm AfraidDave - Let's GoTony - Never Let Me GoDave - NuWave

Gearing up for the RPM Challenge and laying down the first tracks.

An old song from last year's RPM Challenge

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