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FEATURED SHOW Sunday, May 17, 6 PM Parallel Listening Series, feat. John Bradberry Trio, Kraanerg, Justin Boening, [...]

Join us on Wednesday, May 27th, as The Auricular brings the vibrant sounds of Jr. to Plan 9 Music for a special [...]

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, May 9, 3 PM Fisher King Records presents Reproductive Freedom Fest, feat. Circle Breaker [...]

Life often feels like a precarious balancing act between vulnerability and bravado, constantly trying to determine [...]

FEATURED SHOW Thursday, April 30, 7 PM Sravani Kameswari, Roslin, Beya, The Potted Plants @ The Camel – [...]

It’s lonely at the top, or so the saying goes, but does it have to be? Success can bring out the worst in people, [...]

FEATURED SHOW Sunday, April 26, 3 PM Rock & Roll Piano Recital, feat. Erin Lunsford, Jake Cochran, Eric Sites, [...]

How delightfully unexpected to find a new .gif from god album appearing over the transom here at Auricular HQ! This [...]

Has the value of the human touch ever felt lower? In chasing digital solutions to eliminate tedious tasks and [...]

Why is it that when we reach a breaking point, it's framed as something self-inflicted? "I hit rock bottom" becomes [...]

It’s been interesting to watch the directions musicians who got started in the Richmond math-rock scene of the [...]

The world tightens into focus. Calm settles in. The periphery blurs until nearly everything fades, leaving only [...]

Tiny Desk season always brings a surge of local talent into view, serving up videos from familiar names trying out [...]

It might feel like we’re submerged in a constant tide of bad news, but small victories are breaking through all [...]

It’s harder than ever to stay engaged. With the news, with the arts, even with each other. Between mixed signals, [...]

Countless great outlets, organizations, and individuals cover the Richmond music scene, so many that it might be [...]

Ever since cars and highways became part of daily life, the open road has served as a powerful artistic symbol. [...]

It’s been interesting to watch the directions musicians who got started in the Richmond math-rock scene of the [...]

Mark your calendar for Wednesday, April 29 because The Auricular is bringing the musical entity Three Brained Robot [...]

For all that it gives us, the mind sure does love to torment us. It plays our losses on repeat, warps our own [...]

We’re not built to wait. If we can imagine something, we tend to want it immediately, pushing to extract as much [...]

The grand scheme never stays clear, drifting through a fog of obscured vision and murky distortion that keeps us [...]

It hasn’t even been a full year since drummer Corey Fonville and organist Sam Fribush first joined forces in [...]

The risk of romance is baked right into the phrase “falling in love.” It asks us to abandon logic and caution, to [...]

What is it about an artistic heart that makes it feel so far-fetched to most? When we discuss work projects or [...]

Flight or fight, as they say, but where does it ever suggest standing still? Waiting around for an opening, stuck [...]

It may be difficult to articulate what psychological chaos actually feels like fully. The way memory becomes [...]

While the start of the year often finds us still catching up on everything we missed at the end of the last one, [...]

We’re all forces in our own right, though most of us spend far too much time underestimating the power we already [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, April 3, 5 PM Richmond Resistance Exhibition Opening, feat. Heavy Friends, Painted World, [...]