Show your support for local music (specifically Richmond, Virginia) with this lovely shirt printed in Comfort Colors’ seafoam green color and unisex style.

How delightfully unexpected to find a new .gif from god album appearing over the transom here at Auricular HQ! This local metallic hardcore sextet have remained an incendiary live-act throughout [...]

Mark your calendar for Wednesday, April 29 because The Auricular is bringing the musical entity Three Brained Robot to Plan 9 Music for an in-store performance!

Has the value of the human touch ever felt lower? In chasing digital solutions to eliminate tedious tasks and inefficiencies, we may have only accelerated our own obsolescence, and not just in an [...]

Why is it that when we reach a breaking point, it's framed as something self-inflicted? "I hit rock bottom" becomes the default confession, quietly absolving everything else of blame. But what if [...]

It’s been interesting to watch the directions musicians who got started in the Richmond math-rock scene of the early 2010s have gone. While folks like Fight Cloud have continued to do a [...]

The world tightens into focus. Calm settles in. The periphery blurs until nearly everything fades, leaving only what’s directly ahead: a special someone, a new anchor point. Your awareness [...]

Tiny Desk season always brings a surge of local talent into view, serving up videos from familiar names trying out new material alongside rising artists eager to make their mark. Some win you [...]

It might feel like we’re submerged in a constant tide of bad news, but small victories are breaking through all around us. Union support and membership have climbed to a sixty-year high, [...]

It’s harder than ever to stay engaged. With the news, with the arts, even with each other. Between mixed signals, curated detachment, and an unspoken pressure to keep everything at arm’s length, [...]

Countless great outlets, organizations, and individuals cover the Richmond music scene, so many that it might be hard to keep up with them all. We'll collect some great articles, coverage, and [...]

Ever since cars and highways became part of daily life, the open road has served as a powerful artistic symbol. Cross-country drives as acts of defiance, late-night rides as moments of sudden [...]

It’s been interesting to watch the directions musicians who got started in the Richmond math-rock scene of the early 2010s have gone. While folks like Fight Cloud have continued to do a [...]

For all that it gives us, the mind sure does love to torment us. It plays our losses on repeat, warps our own memories, and even tricks parts of our body into counterproductive measures just for [...]

We’re not built to wait. If we can imagine something, we tend to want it immediately, pushing to extract as much from it as quickly as possible. That impulse is true for all of life, including [...]