STORIES THAT STRIKE A CHORD

THE SOUNDCHECK IS SOLELY OWNED AND OPERATED BY AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST, WRITER & PRESENTER TIANA SPETER. 

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Raised on a diet of classical music before evolving into a rock and metal-devouring machine, Tiana Speter has spent over 15 years working in the creative industries. Establishing The Soundcheck in 2017, an independent music media website specialising in music features, music news, interviews and new music coverage, Tiana has since evolved her professional gaze to incorporate journalism, copywriting, on-camera and event hosting, publicity, web design and more for a vast range of high-profile artists and companies.

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Outside of running The Soundcheck, Tiana operates PR and publicity campaigns with leading heavy music and entertainment company Dallas Does PR, and also contributes as a copywriter for On The Map PR across a variety of projects.

 

As a journalist, she's previously interviewed everyone from Tom Morello through to Deftones, Paul Kelly, Duran Duran, Slipknot, Hans Zimmer, Poppy and countless more. Her work can be found on Rolling Stone Australia, Music Feeds, Tone Deaf and The Music, while her hosting tenure includes on-camera work for Good Things Festival (Good Things Brings interview series and weekly news segments during festival season), Knotfest (currently hosting the Australian edition of the social media series Top 5), and she's also frequently featured as host for the Destroy All Lines tour interview series A Peek Behind The Lines with a range of high-profile guests. Tiana also previously hosted and produced several industry podcasts, including The Green Room, Press Play and more.

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In 2024, Tiana was awarded the Women In Heavy Music Award at the annual Australian Women In Music Awards, and appeared as a guest heavy music expert on an episode of triple j's Hottest 100 program, The Tally Room. She was a featured speaker at the Australian Women In Music Award's first ever Breaking Metal Barriers panel in 2023, and hosted the 2025 In Conversation segment at the AWMAs with photographer Brittany Long.

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With an extensive history also in television production (spanning just shy of a decade with the national broadcaster Channel Seven), Tiana’s diverse creative background and passion brings some sparkle to every project she takes on. A passionate writer and host for hire outside of her many current music industry pursuits, can she talk and write underwater? Yes, and she'll do it while drooling over riffs and not-so-secretly keeping tabs on the latest NBA game results.

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The Soundcheck specialises in metal, rock, punk and heavier surrounds, and Tiana also loves nothing more than spotlighting femme artists as much as possible; but everything and anything is welcome 'round these parts. At the end of the day, The Soundcheck praises three rules above all else:
 

ARTIST FIRST. NO GATEKEEPING. MUSIC IS LIFE.