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After the successful WAM Festival WAM are back with their Song Of The Year Competition.. WAM Festival is one of the most exciting times in the Perth calendar as it brings together the entire WA music community for two days to point out to the east coast that WA actually makes awesome music. Apart from a large number of bands playing it's a forum where a wide-range of topics are discussed including; whether or not Triple J is crucial to helping you make it big, whether you need to get drunk to network, is community radio all that great and more which you can read about HERE. And after all that fun WAM is back with their Song Of The Year competition with their grand prize offering $3000 in cash, alongside the opportunity to record, get your song mastered by William Bowden (recieved a Grammy for his work on Goyte's Somebody I Used To Know), a publishing deal, your CDs pressed, a chance to perform at WAM Festival 2015 and more which you can read about HERE. Past winners include Pilerats' f

WAM Conference: Things We Learned This Weekend.. WAM Festival wasn't just about the awards and block parties - the WAM Conference chalked up a successful two day stint of incredible knowledge-sharing this weekend. Over Friday and Saturday, curious music fans, band members, producers, music journalists, managers, bookers, label owners and more gave up their free time to jump into some lecture theatres and hear experts from all over Australia have a chinwag about hot topics in the music industry, as well as share their practical insider tips. It was kind of like a voluntary music university! Big props out to WAM for putting together such a relevant and stimulating program of panels and giving us a leg up on our never-ending journey of discovery. We relayed the best truth bombs to those playing at home via our live Twitter stream (follow us HERE) - here’s some of the stuff that really stuck with us:  Despite popular opinion, getting your music played on triple j is not going to ‘make or b

“It may not be quite as large an event than last year, but it’s certainly going to be better.”

Despite the picture, it's not made up of Tame Impala members

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Perth comes alive

WAM start search for new CEO