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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, [...]

What draws us to grind? To push endlessly toward something that feels so certain within us, yet so unclear to [...]

Manifestation, at its heart, comes down to movement. Refusing to stay still in your current reality and instead [...]

FEATURED SHOW Friday, March 27, 9 PM Artschool, Shagwuf, Tentative Decisions, Rat Fight @ The Camel – $10 [...]

Does success ring hollow? Can triumph leave behind anything lasting? Is grinding forward any different than [...]

The Newlin Music Prize announced this morning that Weekend Plans has won the 2026 award for the album After Hours.

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, March 21, 6 PM 80404 Club 1 Year Anniversary, feat. Muziqhead, 2HEI757, Ty Sorrell, Moe [...]

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

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15 Single Use presents Supfest Saturday March 14, 7 PM [...]

No music genre channels confrontation quite like hardcore. Pounding intensity and a roaring sound that keep every [...]

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, March 7, 6:30 PM Lose Sight, Steamroll, Wasted Life, Companion of Fools @ Lakeside Moose [...]

The Auricular is excited to bring the spectacular DuctTape Jesus to Plan 9 Music on Wednesday, March 4th for an [...]

FEATURED SHOW Thursday, February 26, 7 PM Pay Rent Brass Band plays Mega Man 3, Piranha Rama, The Dawnstars @ [...]

FEATURED SHOW  Friday, February 20, 7 PM Suppression, Ostraca, The Slads, Cicada, Service Weapon, Curriculum @ [...]

The Newlin Music Prize unveiled its 2026 Short List last Monday, featuring 20 albums in contention for this year’s [...]

FEATURED SHOW Tuesday, February 17, 7 PM Get The Flock Out Benefit Show, feat. Deau Eyes, Holy River, Brookhouse, [...]

On Wednesday, February 18th, The Auricular proudly welcomes the electrifying sounds of HOTPANTS to Plan 9 Music for [...]