The Music Hall, 6:30pm: RPM Opening Ceremony

Join us as we kick off this year’s global RPM listening party with music, video, and a live webcast connecting us to other RPM listening parties around the world. All the finished 2009 albums will be on display, there will be a live VJ set by Mike Marchand, and the entire Seacoast music community will be there!

Bands, make sure you check in at The Music Hall at 6:30pm to get your name tags!

In February, more than 2000 musicians and bands from around the globe dedicated themselves to recording new albums in 28 days as part of the fourth annual RPM Challenge, which resulted in a total of 170 new CDs from just our local area. On March 28, we’ll celebrate that by listening to them!

The free citywide listening party starts at the 800-seat Music Hall at 6:30pm, then spreads out to include The Press Room, The Loaf & ladle, and RiverRun Bookstore.

The scope of new music crafted in February is vast. Projects range from ’60s style R&B instrumentals to electronica, from roots rock to gangsta rap, from punk to a capella. Every imaginable form of music – and some unimaginable – seems to fall under the RPM umbrella. RPM participants are a mixture of popular local musicians, new artists, and some who haven’t been on stage since the school nativity.

Aside from giving regional artists the impetus to create, RPM builds community. From Anchorage, Alaska, to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, from London and Oslo to Tokyo, Aukland, Pretoria and Los Angeles, independent musicians from all walks of life have formed a community with a common goal: to set aside any obstacles to producing music for the month of February, and to find themselves each holding in their hands a new CD of their own original work that they would not have made otherwise.

The Press Room
77 Daniel St., 603-431-5186

pop rock (8-9:30)

Sister Columbine - The Elderly    
Just Physics - Stimulus Package    
Attempt: Song Against Songsmith - Hero Squad
No Such Thing As TMI - Timekillers
FEBURHURRY - Not Mad
Track 01 - The Ghost Mill Recording Studio
The Other Side - Murkadee
Falling Down the Stairs - Rudy Sims
Improvisational Instrumental Injustice - Cantonese Traffic
Journey Inside Your Mind - Bob Jr. and the Martini Gardeners
Low Level Celeb - Phil-in-the-Blank
Track 01 - Mink Rockmoore
Sledding - Amos Clapp and The Meek
One of those Guys - Sam Mulligan
Another Time - Shabby Road Studios
Girls - Porous Yorik
Step Out And Come Undone - Radio Taxi
Shake It On Down - Bryan Litchfield
Part-time Maniac - World Weary and Wise
Spelunk the Funk - Uncle Phil
Gold - George Brown
Presto - Slackasaurus
There’s a Hole in the Wall - When Geeks Unite

rock  (9:30-11)

Space Punk Revisite - Floppy Jalopy
Garfield - Studio 114
Limited Scope - The Pros
Savenging - God Buzzard
satisfied - Zycie
Dearly Departed - Gary Fox
G Force - Alex McDonald
Spaced Out Jonny - This Is Steve
Midnight Circuit - Profit Motive
Drop Dead Patsy - The Governess
Death by 1000 Cuts - Style
Tell Me - Toast
Gimmie Dub (Destroy Babylon) - Music ADD
Snow Will Fall - The Mackeys
Track 05 - BLK. TOP/ YOUR CHARM
Thanksgiving ‘09 - Walter Noons
Time’s Up - Brian Marshall
Rock ‘n Roll Judgement Day - The Big Dumb Rock Album
Time to Pay - Black Rabbi
Sleepyhead - Atomic Deathray
Cow - The Dummys
Music - Periodic Thoughts
Shoes On The Ground - The Pondtrotters
Invocation - Featherscale
Wake Up - Neuromantics
Hooligans - The Malcontent War-Mongerers

From 11-midnight, please join us for
random play... mmmmm, random play.

The Loaf & Ladle
106 Penhallow St., 603-436-4900

singer/songwriter (8-9:30)

Take Me Away - Tim Theriault
The Warrior Queen - Dave
All Sales Final - Dustin Pearce
Summoning - Nate Laban
Atomic Thoughts - Doug Smith
Last Night’s Dress - Doolittle And The Raiders
Woodland Dr. - Chris
Maybe, Possibly, Yeah - Brutha Cutch (John McCutchen)
My Heart, Again - Sandra Koski
Castle Rock - Ian Franzel
Port Town - Martha Solomon Jeff Kies
Fathers and Sons - Drew Szeliga
I Concord NH - Anya Rose
Portsmouth Queen - Richie Rosencrans
Silver Limousine - Robert Berks
Lilac Skies - Bruce Hilton
Nuclear Attack Drill - Deborah Rocha
Show Me Stories - Craig Werth
Folded - Ryan J. Tressel
Over Again - Winterbourne
The Perils of Travelling Without Shoes - All Those Ships
New & Improved - Will Harrison
Charles Mix. South Dakota - Levi Galloway
Someone Else’s Stride - Acoustichewy
Taking Time - Wesley James Wilson

other  (9:30-11)

Asking for Forgiveness - Acid Reflux is Burn
Late At Night - The Advanced Apes
Blind Chaos - Blind Chaos
Ah Ah - Jim Bouchard
California Visit - Carnival Photographs
Eggs in a Frame - Eric Strathmeyer
OCD - Thoughtcrime
Folded, Theme - Broken Robot Factory
gOd Bless AMericA - Otto Reverse
Livewire - Alternate Modes of Underwater Conciousness
lung cancer - Zeroking
Track 03 - Nemo Culpa
Turntable Electronics And Clarinet Improv - Fritz Wenzler
The End of Watching a Movie and Playing Music - The Mango Wranglers
When We Broke Up - Triple Creme
Word Just In - Jim Schliestett
Scream Mercy - Gallant
These Days - The Attic Bat
To Be Young and Full of Vigor - Matt O’brien
Phone Call Instructions - Von Spiel
The Hunter (Electron Jones) - The Leading Zeros

Featuring random play from  11-midnight... who knows
what might happen during random play? 

The Music Hall
28 Chestnut St., 603-436-2400

lower lobby

Americana (8-9:30)

Jump U - Steve Turbo Thompson
Value of a Friend - Home Grown String Theory
The Empire’s Blade - East of Shirley
mean and the lonely sea - Dressing the Debutantes
History Becomes Us - Penhallow
Compilation Tapes - David Marcouillier
This Fire Just Won’t Burn - Jon Nolan
The Other Side - Jesse Remignanti
Rolling Downhill - Chuck Not the Band
Black-eyed, Black-haired Witch Woman - Black Window Music
Victim Of Love - John Ellison
One More Beer - The Sidewalk Boys
Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire - Steve Roy
Kachunk - Jack Bandit
Cheers - Trapped in 3D
Hole in the Ground - The Porter Sharks
Weeds and Windows - Vegetable Man
Funky Friday Night - Kieran McManus

indie minimal (9:30-11)

Penny A Wish - Chinchilla Party
Hail - Bad Fall (Pete Duschesne)
Track 01 - Dharma Rascal
I’ve Wasted All My Time - Mercy Wizard
A Forest Floor of Dead Needles - Wherewithal
Remember to Say Goodbye - Witheyes
New Chapter - Detective John Kimble
Honeybee - Breakfastsong
Keep It Simple - Ms. Feldman
Water in a Cage - Queen Excluder
Some Walls Aren’t Meant To Talk To - Cocoa Amaretto
Track 01 - v/a My Heart Is About To Burst...
Leaves Drift - An Ingenious System Of Mirrors
Pathogen - 00Shoe Troupe
Track 02 - Sidewalks
Wasted Wishes - Guy Capecelatro III
The State Of Things Pts. 1 And 2 - Night Driving
Who Said I Was - Nick Szydlowski
Boy - Blake Seale Jr.
When Will This End? - Electric Oak
Mike - Beckwith

The Music Hall lower lobby will
probably be closed at 12.

upper lobby

electronic/ambiant (8-9:30)

Lie About Your Purpose - Amplified Sissy
Marinus - Rhode Runners
Doves Never Sleep - Wisteriax
Endothermic - Michelangelo
Pulsar - Chris Decato
Ambiotic - Lintybits
untitled - Main Sequence
Betsu Ni - Winterstar
Gonna - Los Noahs
Dawn (excerpt) - Michelangelo
Subterra - Reverse Polish Nation
Wonkhouse - Wonkeye
Upside Down + Inside Out - Softmore
Songs of the Guinea Pig - Starbear and Shield Tree
Universal Causation - Mosfet
Kitsuné - Tim Nelson
Joy Cometh in the Mourning Reprise - Mired
Biscuit Shortage - Text Offenders
Repeater - Acme Groove Service
mtlml - Soundedit
Phase 1 - WBS

international (9:30-11)

Join us upstairs at The Music Hall for a special block of music from far-away lands.

The Music Hall upper lobby will
most likely be closed at 11.

RiverRun Bookstore
20 Congress St., 603-431-2100

jazz/instrumental/all-ages (8-9:30)

Saying Goodbye - Scott Sutherland
Russian - Rinalducci and the J Notes
Hats - Ben Groovin’
So Sayeth The Fish Tribe - Rainbow Of Ball Sweat
Track 02 - Tom Martin on the Bass
Dad Says Homework, I Say Rock - The Poo Poo Platters
Not All Smooth Jazz Sucks - Dusty Bluvins
Gnu - Clouds On Trees
Insomnia - Equal Time
Inauguration Day - Margaret Carol
Her Beautiful Mouth Said Such Ugly Things - The BiPolar Bears
Track 04 - Jordan Elias
Track 08 - The Sh@z
Rush To Dusk - Tory Miller
Masa’il (Questions) - Chris Cooke
Fowl Attitude - Feline Drummers
Under The Moose - Keith, Thom/Duane Edwards/Mark Barnette

RiverRun will be closed
during blocks two and three.