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Earlier this month, riveting alt-pop songstress Deau Eyes embarked on her 2023 Tour de Richmond, a series of ten performances stretched across twelve days around Virginia’s capital. Each stop on [...]

Since emerging half a century ago, synthpop has had a unique ability to encapsulate love of all shapes and sizes in song. With its boundless possibilities and versatile structure, it can zero in [...]

FEATURED SHOW Scum City Records Presents Surge Fest Day One: Friday, September 29, 6 PM Future Projektor, Junkhead, Asylum 213, The Electric Prophets, Polluted Tongues, Ill Doctrine @ Black Iris [...]

The Auricular officially turns five today! I’ve got so many thoughts to share and so much to unpack, but to start, I’ve been really thinking about the last paragraph from that very first post [...]

The sound of Hotspit has always been a compelling force. It's cerebral, yet deeply emotional, pulling back the layers of fractured existences and imperfect connections in a way that's cathartic [...]

Tracking the rise of Rikki Rakki over the last few years has been… astonishing. Born a few months before the initial COVID lockdown, the band somehow made it through that turbulent year and came [...]

Since emerging half a century ago, synthpop has had a unique ability to encapsulate love of all shapes and sizes in song. With its boundless possibilities and versatile structure, it can zero in [...]

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, September 23, 7 PM The Auricular 5th Anniversary Celebration, feat. Drook, Rikki Rakki, Strawberry Moon, Hotspit @ Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House – $12 [...]

Since emerging half a century ago, synthpop has had a unique ability to encapsulate love of all shapes and sizes in song. With its boundless possibilities and versatile structure, it can zero in [...]

In their own words, the music of The Octavias is “a little punk, a little indie, very loud.” Short and to the point, it works when you listen back to their catalog up until this point, which [...]