PLAY MUSIC IN VLC WITHOUT GUI

In your terminal prompt, type the following:

vlc -I ncurses /home/dan/filename.mp3

Where the -I option is, specify the interface--in yourcase, it's ncurses.It will open a ncurses interface in the terminal, where you can increase or decrease the volume by using A or Z keys and press H for further options.
Also note that/home/dan/filename.mp3 is an example of music file. You can open any number of files by using a wildacrd such as *. For example, /home/dan/*.mp3