New music from gnawing, Royalbaby, GRAYMATTER, Dust, NDEFRU, Fan Ran, Tiny Lights, Rodney Stith, Rah Scrilla, Lonely Rooms, Crustodian, Benjamin Mauch, & more!

If you're under 40, you might not remember Hose.Got.Cable. They broke up in 1996, after releasing two EPs, an LP, and a couple of comp tracks. Members did go on to play in RPG and Alabama [...]

Let's not make this a big deal. Last thing I want is for The Auricular to resemble some LiveJournal from the mid-2000s with a "Sorry, I haven't been updating..." post every three months.

Breathing. It’s easy right? In, out. You’re doing it now without even thinking about it. But as any horn player or yoga practitioner will tell you, you’re barely scratching the surface of what [...]

Fallen leaves are accumulating on forest floors and roadsides. A turbulent campaign has yielded a new president-elect. Google docs are filling up with lists of favorite 2020 songs and albums. As [...]

2020 has taken so much from us, including a year's worth of seeing our favorite bands perform at the venues we know and love. And while that separation has been painful -- especially when it [...]

In a world where people are taking back their agency and proudly brandishing their own identity, there are still things left unsaid. Truths unspoken to our friends. Realities hidden from the [...]

If there was ever a year to struggle with reality around us and seek out a better way, it's 2020. And as this crazy, chaotic year begins to wind down...

As I type this sentence, Scott Lane is looking over my left shoulder. Okay, so it's not Lane himself, but the signed and framed copy of...

Last night, people across the world got a glimpse of what the Richmond music scene has to offer as the phenomenal...

This past Monday night, Canadian-based artist Backxwash won the 2020 Polaris Music Prize for her album God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out Of It, an album that was originally released [...]

New to our ears today is the first single from a new act in Richmond: the four-piece hard rock group known as GABRIEL.

Here we are, a little over a month later, still trying to make sense out of a confounding situation. Luckily, in that month...

As we continue to look for justice and reform in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, as well as countless other senseless murders and violent acts at the hands of people who are supposed to [...]

You know that famous quote about how great minds discuss ideas instead of events or people? The one often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt?