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Tag: Deep Sea Arcade

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Deep Sea Arcade @ Metro Social, 20th Aug

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 20 August 2025

“Deep Sea Arcade play old and new tracks tonight, but whether it’s fresh out the gate or taken from the vaults there’s an undercurrent of creative mischief, of playing with form. Pop and artrock and blues and spacey motifs orbit and smash into surfaces, a constellation of songwriting antics, all worth training the eye on.” […]

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Most Playlisted

Most Playlisted: The Rions

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 24 March 2025

Most Playlisted This Week Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists and look for who is getting the love from the most critics and tastemakers. This week’s podium finishers: 🥇The Rions (appeared on 36% of updated playlists) 🥈Old Mervs, The Terrys, Oscar The Wild (27%) 🥉Lithe, Floodlights, Deep Sea Arcade, The […]

Tags Deep Sea Arcade, Floodlights, Lithe, Old Mervs, Oscar The Wild, The Moving Stills, The Rions, The Terrys

I would like to acknowledge that the gigs that are pictured here, the stages they’re played on, the bars and venues they’re held in, and the good times they represent, are all held on lands that were never ceded by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I acknowledge these First Australians as the traditional custodians of the continent, whose cultures are among the oldest living cultures in human history. I pay respect to the Elders of the community and extend my recognition to their descendants.

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