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It’s harder than ever to stay engaged. With the news, with the arts, even with each other. Between mixed signals, curated detachment, and an unspoken pressure to keep everything at arm’s length, [...]

Mark your calendar for Wednesday, April 29 because The Auricular is bringing the musical entity Three Brained Robot to Plan 9 Music for an in-store performance!

Countless great outlets, organizations, and individuals cover the Richmond music scene, so many that it might be hard to keep up with them all. We'll collect some great articles, coverage, and [...]

Ever since cars and highways became part of daily life, the open road has served as a powerful artistic symbol. Cross-country drives as acts of defiance, late-night rides as moments of sudden [...]

It’s been interesting to watch the directions musicians who got started in the Richmond math-rock scene of the early 2010s have gone. While folks like Fight Cloud have continued to do a [...]

For all that it gives us, the mind sure does love to torment us. It plays our losses on repeat, warps our own memories, and even tricks parts of our body into counterproductive measures just for [...]

We’re not built to wait. If we can imagine something, we tend to want it immediately, pushing to extract as much from it as quickly as possible. That impulse is true for all of life, including [...]

The grand scheme never stays clear, drifting through a fog of obscured vision and murky distortion that keeps us detached from any sense of forward motion as that sentiment flutters wildly [...]

It hasn’t even been a full year since drummer Corey Fonville and organist Sam Fribush first joined forces in pursuit of something new. “Blue-collar jazz for the people,” as the duo described it [...]

The risk of romance is baked right into the phrase “falling in love.” It asks us to abandon logic and caution, to lean into the drop with the hope that whatever waits at the bottom will be [...]

What is it about an artistic heart that makes it feel so far-fetched to most? When we discuss work projects or upcoming life milestones, no one thinks twice; the conversation still moves along at [...]

Flight or fight, as they say, but where does it ever suggest standing still? Waiting around for an opening, stuck in place while everything races forward? Life moves fast, and so should you, a [...]

It may be difficult to articulate what psychological chaos actually feels like fully. The way memory becomes unreliable, sensations distort, and anguish becomes the only stable point of [...]

While the start of the year often finds us still catching up on everything we missed at the end of the last one, the annual Tiny Desk submissions always give us a reason to stay locked in. Case [...]