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All posts tagged "WA Music"

SCREW HALLOWEEN

OJAY‘CREEP IN THE NIGHT’ A song about serial killers just in time for Halloween? That’s got one/no hit wonder written...

By Andrea ThompsonOctober 23, 2023

GET YOUR MUSIC HEARD

Did you hear the one about the Perth band that spent $15,000 recording a killer album but turned their noses...

By Andrea ThompsonOctober 20, 2023

OH YEAH!

LINES OF CONVICTION‘OPEN HEARTS’ Busselton’s Lines Of Conviction are a band in that delicious stage of development when everything is...

By Andrea ThompsonOctober 20, 2023

PLAIN SILLY

SHANNON SMITHDANCE THE NIGHT AWAY (DO DO DO DO) If I tried to count the ways the world is currently...

By Andrea ThompsonOctober 15, 2023

lower-case aesthetic

The single’s cover art is a photo of the Hollywood sign, you know the one, with palm trees in the...

By Andrea ThompsonOctober 4, 2023

#11 THE WORTH OF A MUSICIAN

Holly Norman is what happens when government doesn’t invest enough in the arts. Even though the arts, in particular music,...

By Andrea ThompsonAugust 7, 2023

#5 WHERE I BELONG

I think I have to count Lindsay Rose as one of my most complex subjects. I came to meet the...

By Andrea ThompsonMay 21, 2023

#15 LIGHT MY WAY

Anita Downes’ story should be a straightforward one. Woman writes songs. Woman plays songs. Audiences turn up to see her...

By Andrea ThompsonMarch 7, 2023

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#3 RUBY FRIDAY

Sometimes music calls you to do things you thought you were done with. It’s one of the things I love...

By Andrea ThompsonFebruary 11, 2023

#0112358 I HATE POST METAL

This is a cautionary tale. You know that metal music with the screamo vocals where you have no chance of...

By Andrea ThompsonJanuary 27, 2023

VALUES CLARIFICATION

One of the early contenders for a piece on the reincarnated Around The Sound was Fran Veltman, who sent me...

By Andrea ThompsonDecember 10, 2022

#2 CUCKOO IN THE NEST

THE SHORT Was born with shocking pink hair. Has a walk-in robe full of capes. Likes to lunch. Is far...

By Andrea ThompsonDecember 7, 2022

#9 THAT’LL DO, DONKEY

When your sparkle evades your soul / I’ll be at your side to console‘Geraldine’ Glasvegas THE SHORT SHIZ Played in...

By Andrea ThompsonNovember 27, 2022

AMATEURS! AMATEURS!

It’s 7.17 Sunday morning. I should be having a second cup of tea and trying to explain one more time...

By Andrea ThompsonNovember 6, 2022

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Around The Sound is a print and online media outlet bringing you the best of contemporary music from Western Australia, nationally and internationally.

We bring you excellence in music journalism and unique insights into music-makers, both iconic and newly-minted.

We also contribute to the health and vitality of the music industry. Led and staffed by a collective of music industry professionals, we exist to promote everything that is enticing about music from your backyard to around the world.

By lifting the lid on the diverse music scenes happening right now and shedding light on that buzz we aim to do our part in getting more people seeing and buying music in Australia. We have a strong focus on local produce and one of our main aims is to further focus the world’s attention on the force that is WA music.

Around The Sound also creates direct employment in the music industry, providing opportunities for journalists, online communicators and marketers, as well as web developers and administrators.

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