By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished December 17, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: December 17 – December 23FEATURED SHOW Saturday, December 20, 2 PM Justin Golden’s Birthday Show, feat. Justin Golden (solo and with [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished December 10, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: December 10 – December 16FEATURED SHOW Thursday, December 11, 7 PM Singh/Alcalde/Simmons @ Reveler Experiences – $15 (order tickets [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished December 3, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: December 3 – December 9FEATURED SHOW Friday, December 5, 5 PM RVA Krampusnacht presents: Yuletide Monsters First Friday Kickoff, feat. [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished December 1, 2025The Auricular Presents Avery Fogarty At Plan 9 Music, December 10On Wednesday, December 10th, The Auricular proudly presents the spectacular Avery Fogarty of Hotspit at Plan 9 [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished November 26, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: November 26 – December 2FEATURED SHOW Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 PM A Shockoe Sessions Live! Christmas!, feat. Caroline Scruggs, Los [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In Features, News, ReviewsPublished November 20, 2025Album Review: The Hard Season by The Hard SeasonThere are things about being a lifelong member of a marginalized and misunderstood counterculture that no one tells [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished November 19, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: November 19 – November 25FEATURED SHOW Thursday, November 20, 7 PM Sundials, Doll Baby, All Away Lou @ The Camel – $12 in advance, $15 [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished November 19, 2025Belly Of The Heart Display Moral Decay Through Felt Surrealism On “Frozo”Oh, the tangled webs humanity weaves. Oh, the strange, strange ways we choose to display those entanglements. The [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished November 19, 2025D.R. Price Delivers Heartfelt Vows In “My Man”Pure affection deserves pure expression. Nothing extravagant, nothing ambiguous. Just honest emotion spoken [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished November 17, 2025The Auricular Presents Warren Campbell At Plan 9 Music, November 19This Wednesday, The Auricular proudly brings the radical sounds of Warren Campbell to Plan 9 Music for a special [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished November 17, 2025Richmond Music Roundup: October 1 – October 31New music from Laura Ann Singh, Dead Billionaires, Ty Sorrell x Profound79, Roughshod, DJ Harrison, Erin Lunsford, [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished November 12, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: November 12 – November 18FEATURED SHOW Friday, November 14, 7 PM Piranha Rama, Unmastered Masters, Russell Lacy, DJ Sidewinder @ Get Tight [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In Features, News, ReviewsPublished November 6, 2025Album Review: Democatessen by Sub/ShopAs a longtime denizen of Richmond, living here in 2025 is a bit weird. In a lot of ways, I don’t recognize this [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished November 5, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: November 5 – November 11FEATURED SHOW Friday, November 7, 7 PM Destruct, Loud Night, Canaries, Massacre System, Subversas @ Studio Two [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 30, 2025Premiere: King Kaiju Drops A Burst Of Insight On Thinking Out LoudTime might be the universe's greatest joke, or at least the way we try to contextualize it as fixed and linear. [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished October 29, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: October 29 – November 4FEATURED SHOW Sunday, November 2, 7 PM Phantom Genius, The Moment, Shormey, Good Morning Pino @ The Camel – [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 25, 2025Premiere: Roughshod Capture The Frights & Fights Of Identity On “I Can’t Be Your Girl”It’s the season for haunt and frights. Movies that shock and unnerve, attractions that stalk and thrill, and [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished October 24, 2025NDEFRU Forgoes The Hook For The Message On “Virginia In You”The assault on progress is widespread. It's pervading every facet of our daily life, from the high cost of [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 23, 2025Premiere: Velvet Ruin Cast A Gothic Glow On “Gemini / Gun”Despite the sheer volume of musicians in Richmond, some genres remain underrepresented, if not absent, from the [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished October 22, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: October 22 – October 28FEATURED SHOW Friday, October 24, 9 PM Velvet Ruin, Shagg Carpet, Homey @ The Camel – $13.20 (order tickets [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished October 22, 2025Alchemy Vividly Channels The Underground In “No Clip”Originality has always been an act of rebellion. Where the status quo only sees a number within a sweeping [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished October 22, 2025Thugga Looks For Change In The Scene With “1000 Degrees”They say to “be the change you wish to see in the world,” a call that usually applies to activism but just as [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 17, 2025Album Review: More! by Dead BillionairesIf punk rock has always been about giving voice to the voiceless, More!, the new EP from Dead Billionaires, takes [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 16, 2025Premiere: Erin Lunsford Finds Perspective And Perseverance While “Crossing Belvidere”Living at the brink of exhaustion is our society’s norm these days. With that comes a flood of unseen consequences. [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished October 15, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: October 15 – October 21FEATURED SHOW Friday, October 17, 9 PM Dead Billionaires, Rikki Rakki, Flora & The Fauna @ The Camel – [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 9, 2025Premiere: Rough Age Finds Its Focus In The Frenzy On EntertainmentClarity is everything. It’s the thing we all chase, the thing we all desperately crave, whether we’re seeking [...] READ MORE
By Marilyn Drew Necci In NewsPublished October 8, 2025RVA Shows You Must See This Week: October 8 – October 14FEATURED SHOW Friday, October 10, 7 PM Rough Age, Sister Planet, Painted World @ Gallery 5 – $14.64 (order [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished October 7, 2025Wear Your Love For Local Music With This Limited Edition ShirtShow your support for local music (specifically Richmond, Virginia) with this lovely shirt printed in Comfort [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In NewsPublished October 7, 2025The Auricular Presents Erin Lunsford At Plan 9 Music, October 22Save the date for Wednesday, October 22nd, because The Auricular proudly hosts the extraordinary Erin Lunsford at [...] READ MORE
By Doug Nunnally In Features, News, ReviewsPublished October 7, 2025Song Review: “Levity” by TV Battle StationsMemory may be intangible, but its suffocating potential is very real. By design, it is both neutral and inevitable. [...] READ MORE