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GOUGING AT YOUR HEART

AMMIFYLOST, NOT HIDING Music for a film? That’s the aspiration.Music from a film? That’s what they’re hoping for.But, what about...

By Andrea ThompsonJune 14, 2024

AROUND THE SOUND LAUNCHES LEARNING EXCHANGE

Around The Sound’s Andrea Thompson today announced the launch of the Around The Sound Learning Exchange, with the first event...

By ATSApril 26, 2024

RIGHTEOUS STUFF

DR CUZ featuring NIKI NUMAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE Ever one for a colab, Perth’s Dr Cuz bunkered down...

By Andrea ThompsonApril 12, 2024

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

CERVIDAE MORTALISREGAN MCVEIGH Reviews are like funerals. While outwardly the ritual of that final send off logically seems to be...

By Andrea ThompsonMarch 17, 2024

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

#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

#14 THE RUB

Over the years, I have occasionally strayed into speculating on what success looks like in the WA music industry. When...

By Andrea ThompsonFebruary 22, 2023

Ruby Pettit - photo by Alexandros Akrivos

#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

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

#12 DAMIEN WHO?

THE SHORT SHIZ The business from NZ. Loves wine, has no idea what pot smells like. Don’t ever tell him...

By Andrea ThompsonOctober 23, 2022

Vanessa Millar - photo by Robin Bottrell

#8 THE MUSIC TEACHER

THE SHORT SHIZ Early career stage musician from Boorloo/Perth. Major coffee addict. Has it. Laughs a lot, mostly about serious...

By Andrea ThompsonSeptember 29, 2022

ON BRINGING IT BACK

Quite rightly, some of you will be thinking, “What the fuck are you up to? You already rage quit, what...

By Andrea ThompsonSeptember 4, 2022

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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