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For the second year in a row, The Wire magazine dared musicians to do the seemingly impossible: Write, record and produce an album in just one month. They call it The RPM Challenge, and the response was overwhelming. While last year's competition focused on local musicians, this year, participants from all over the world took part. Tonight, we'll talk to two organizers behind the event, and we'll hear a broad sampling of the music that it spawned.

Our guests are:

• Dave Karlotski, publisher of The Wire and a founding organizer of the RPM Challenge.
• Chris Griener, musician and organizer of the RPM Challenge. His musical projects include Northern and Foxlove.

Click here to see a list of links to the musicic sampled on tonight's show.

A new national survey shows that New Hampshire exceeds the nation when it comes to social capital.
Social capital refers to social networks and the levels of trust, cooperation, political engagement and the group activities that come from these networks.
Lewis Feldstein is the President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, which helped fund the study.
He described the basic findings to NHPR's Amy Quinton.

Feldstein says research shows people living in communities with high social capital are likely to be happier, healthier and have longer life expectancy.