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It’s hard to imagine desiring a reset just nine days into the new year, but here we are. As the news becomes more [...]

In 2005, David Foster Wallace presented a new spin on the term “rat race,” electing to redefine it as “the constant [...]

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, January 10, 8 PM Fundraiser for Cel’s Surgery Recovery, feat. Ten Pound Snail, Shagg [...]

Back when I started going to shows in Richmond, it was the early ’90s, and noise rock was the big thing in the [...]

New year, new you? The burning question each time we prepare for the ball drop, and the stinging taunt that follows [...]

FEATURED SHOW Wednesday, December 31, 7 PM 4th Annual Lakeside Tavern New Year’s Eve Extravaganza, feat. 40 [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, December 26, 8 PM Big No & Noah-O, King Delt, LBE Hunt, Big Street Deedy, Reppa Ton, P2P [...]

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, December 20, 2 PM Justin Golden’s Birthday Show, feat. Justin Golden (solo and with [...]

FEATURED SHOW Thursday, December 11, 7 PM Singh/Alcalde/Simmons @ Reveler Experiences – $15 (order tickets [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, December 5, 5 PM RVA Krampusnacht presents: Yuletide Monsters First Friday Kickoff, feat. [...]

On Wednesday, December 10th, The Auricular proudly presents the spectacular Avery Fogarty of Hotspit at Plan 9 [...]

FEATURED SHOW Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 PM A Shockoe Sessions Live! Christmas!, feat. Caroline Scruggs, Los [...]

There are things about being a lifelong member of a marginalized and misunderstood counterculture that no one tells [...]

FEATURED SHOW Thursday, November 20, 7 PM Sundials, Doll Baby, All Away Lou @ The Camel – $12 in advance, $15 [...]

Oh, the tangled webs humanity weaves. Oh, the strange, strange ways we choose to display those entanglements. The [...]

Pure affection deserves pure expression. Nothing extravagant, nothing ambiguous. Just honest emotion spoken [...]

This Wednesday, The Auricular proudly brings the radical sounds of Warren Campbell to Plan 9 Music for a special [...]

New music from Laura Ann Singh, Dead Billionaires, Ty Sorrell x Profound79, Roughshod, DJ Harrison, Erin Lunsford, [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, November 14, 7 PM Piranha Rama, Unmastered Masters, Russell Lacy, DJ Sidewinder @ Get Tight [...]

As a longtime denizen of Richmond, living here in 2025 is a bit weird. In a lot of ways, I don’t recognize this [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, November 7, 7 PM Destruct, Loud Night, Canaries, Massacre System, Subversas @ Studio Two [...]

Time might be the universe's greatest joke, or at least the way we try to contextualize it as fixed and linear. [...]

FEATURED SHOW Sunday, November 2, 7 PM Phantom Genius, The Moment, Shormey, Good Morning Pino @ The Camel – [...]

It’s the season for haunt and frights. Movies that shock and unnerve, attractions that stalk and thrill, and [...]

The assault on progress is widespread. It's pervading every facet of our daily life, from the high cost of [...]

Despite the sheer volume of musicians in Richmond, some genres remain underrepresented, if not absent, from the [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, October 24, 9 PM Velvet Ruin, Shagg Carpet, Homey @ The Camel – $13.20 (order tickets [...]

Originality has always been an act of rebellion. Where the status quo only sees a number within a sweeping [...]

They say to “be the change you wish to see in the world,” a call that usually applies to activism but just as [...]

If punk rock has always been about giving voice to the voiceless, More!, the new EP from Dead Billionaires, takes [...]