Q. What is this website?

A. Pitchfurk is a comprehensive online encyclopedia of "furry music" - people, events and communities that exist in the intersection of the music world and the furry community.

 

Q. Who's running this website? Who writes all this stuff?

A. Me :) my name is Tyler Geisel, and I make music under the name SkreamerWiki. All writing, research and visuals present on Pitchfurk are my work alone.

 

I am also the only person who regularly contributes to the code of Pitchfurk, although, I'm still pretty ameteurish at web development. I've had some additional code contributed by weirdgore (admin of internetexploder.net), although, he isn't regularly involved in operating the website nor does he have any connection to furry music - in other words, please don't pester him about it!

 

My main page is based off a template by repth. The wiki pages are partially based on templates by limegreen and squid.

 

Q. Why did you make Pitchfurk?

A. I occasionally made YouTube videos when I was a teenager, and for a while had the idea to come back to the hobby by making a "furry music iceberg" type of video. I dropped the actual image first, to try and scolicit writing help, but it ended up going viral and trending on Twitter for almost 2 days straight. Wanting to continue writing about furry music and expand my scope without the timer of having to do it all in one video, I pivoted to making this website.

 

If you're asking where my interest in the topic started, a big factor is no doubt that I am a furry and a musician myself. The history of our scene is very poorly preserved and few websites exist on this topic, leaving us in the hands of irregularly-mantained review blogs and the odd context-free spreadsheet. Another motivation was my annoyance with outsiders, such as drama YouTubers, being the only comprehensive source on some of these artists. Additionally, I credit my distaste for online discourse about "furry music" tending to revolve around the same few highly visible artists, with sweeping generalizations of the scene being made based on nothing. "Furry music" has something for everyone, and I intend to prove it.

 

Q. Is this a wiki? Can I edit the pages?

A. This website will, for the forseeable future, not be available for the public to directly edit. For one thing, Neocities wouldn't allow it! A wiki would also require moderation and organizing, to a level that's far outside of my current resources. I'm also running this website for the love of the game, so to speak. I would very much love to be in contact with people who want to contribute the history they know to this potluck of information, and I have an Information Wanted page as well as a Contact page. I don't bite, so you are free to reach out. Your contributions will be credited, if you'd like. Do note, however I don't expect this to be monetizable and I'm obviously not in the position to pay an staff. If that is acceptable to you, feel free to reach out through my contact page to work out the details.

 

Q. Who decides what gets on the website?

A. At the moment, Pitchfurk is under my sole editorial discretion.

 

Q. What if there's something inaccurate on Pitchfurk?

A. Pitchfurk aims for some semblance of balance and accuracy, however, it is a labor of love from one single person. My inherent biases are impossible to totally correct for, and my articles may be colored by my personal history and opinions. In addition, my memory and research are not perfect. Much of my knowledge is secondhand. Articles may contain mistakes, misinterperetations, faulty recollections, exaggerations or rumors. I don't reccomend people judge artists, on a personal or professional level, based off the history I document on Pitchfurk, as my perception and coverage will inexorably be subjective. With my goal being fairness and accuracy, if I've made a mistake, contact me through my contact page. Do your best to include sources too, part of my attempt at accuracy is allowing people to check my work.

 

Q. I'm a listed artist, can I change something on my page?

A. Maybe!

 

Firstly, I will change personal names and pronouns in articles, no questions asked. I will also change the listed location of an artist, and if asked I can make it more or less specific (i.e. I can just list your nationality rather than a specific place).

 

I'd love to know more about your personal story as a musician, and I will correct most details within reason. Do note, however, that there are limits to this. I can't remove information just because you or someone else is embarassed by it. I'd eventually have to do that for every article, and I'd never get anythong done. I would VERY strongly appreciate if you can send me something, anything, to back up information that you ask me to put on this page. This website relies on references. I am of course not entirely averse to oral history, but of course, the plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence".

 

Q. Why are controversial artists listed here?

A. Certain artists listed on Pitchfurk have controversies relating to their personal life or their music careers. There are limits to what I can ethically write on a website like this. While it is standard practice to write about discourse and allegations that are already in the public consciousness, I am not a police officer or a vigilante. This is the area where I must take the most care to balance what I present, and as such, is the area where the inherently subjective nature of my work will be the most consequential. The purpose of Pitchfurk is to report on the scene as it is, not to shape it to my own liking, and as such all of my reporting on such sensitive issues is intentionally being left second-hand in nature, with the absolute lightest touch given to details which cannot be verified.

 

With similar concerns in mind, I will not be removing controversial artists from this website, nor will I remove any linked sources which are already in the public consciousness. Even if doing so wouldn't just evoke the Streisand effect, I wouldn't consider it appropriate to take sweeping actions that might manipulate the existence of furry music rather than simply document it, which removing articles could easily do. I'm here to document the scene as it exists, rather than steer it.

 

Please do NOT send me any non-public allegation of ANY kind of misconduct, sexual or otherwise, against a furry artist. I will NOT publish it, and I will DELETE it without reading it.

 

Q. Can I submit my own music to be listed?

A. I would rather prefer you didn't.

 

Q. What is a furry, and what is the furry fandom?

A. A "furry" is a fan of anthropomorphic animals. The "furry fandom" is a collective label for all the overlapping activities and subcultures which fans of anthropomorphic animals congregate around. Both of these terms are incredibly fluid, so any two people who both identify as furries might have incredibly disparate ideas on what being a furry is and how they engage with that identity.

 

Q. How can you tell who is a furry?

A. There is no universally accepted answer. In the ideology of this website, self-identification as a furry is the most seriously considered factor, however, my choices for inclusion are still just my own opinion, and should not be taken as an objective definition or representation of the consensus. Other things will I take interest in when researching artists include:

 

• creating/identifying with fursonas
• fursuiting
• attending furry conventions
• connections to furry events or groups
• commissioning/engaging with furry art and artists

 

The above is by no means a comprehensive list, but, if you have information about a musician in that vein, please contact me using my contact page.

 

Q. Is the furry fandom a sexual or fetishistic thing?

A. Not always, and there are large numbers of furries who don't engage with the sexual side of the fandom whatsoever. FurScience, long-running fandom surveyors, have some interesting data on this subject. Participants were given a 7-point scale, and asked to rank themselves from "strongly disagree" to "strongly" agree on the question of sexual attraction being a motivator to their being in the furry fandom. More than 50% of those polled picked a 5 or higher. Similarly, 50% of furries polled also reported having some degree of a preference for pornographic furry art, whereas less than 20% reported any preference for non-pornographic art.

 

Conversely, when presented with a list of 14 activities and asked to rank the importance of each to the furry community, "sex" and "drama" got the absolute lowest scores, and 80% of furries report something other than sex or pornography as having played the biggest role in them becoming a furry. Perhaps the most interesting statistic is simply that furries tend to overestimate how many other furries will consider it to be a fetish. I do think that there's a some degree of a sexual component that will be expressed by most furries during their engagement with the fandom, but, I wouldn't say that makes all of the things created by furries inherently sexual. Some of my favorite furry artists are light on the dirty stuff, much lighter than a lot of mainstream pop music.

 

Q. Is the furry fandom related to bestiality or zoophilia?

. By definition, typically not, since furry characters would be "anthropomorphized" which usually entails being given a bipedal gait and human intelligence. However, a minority of furries are zoophiles. One of the few data points I have is that about 7% of respondants in one 2019 FurScience poll listed zoophilia as a kink or fetish of theirs, making it a tie for the 15th most popular fetish on the list. The proportion of self-identifying zoophiles is striking when compared to the 1-2% prevalence in the general public, but overall, these numbers support the idea that the vast majority of furries are thankfully opposed to bestiality and animal abuse.

 

Q. Are bronies furries?

A. Bronies are the subculture of My Little Pony fans, often referring specifically to the adult male fans of the 2010 My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series. There is a long and storied subculture of brony music. When the brony music compilation "100% No Feeble Cheering" was released in 2012, Bandcamp's servers were so overloaded with an influx of brony traffic that the entire website briefly went offline!

 

Bronies may or may not identify as furries and may or may not engage with anything from the furry fandom. I am agnostic as to if I think bronies, as a whole, are furries, so I include them all on this website rather than trying to reach a conclusion for everyone individually.

 

Q. What is furry music?

A. In its simplest definition, furry music is the music made by furries and the surrounding subculture thereof. My website documents music made by furries and entities from the furry music space. I also include several articles on what I would call "related subjects", areas where the music world and the furry fandom intersect that aren't necessarily in the form of music made by furries themselves.

 

Q. What's the best furry music?

A. The music you have in your heart, of course :3 but if you're asking what I listen to, there's a lot of Operation Sodasteal, ilysm, Frums, Miya Lowe, and a good few of em essex's projects.

 

Q. What's the worst furry music?

A. There's a SpongeBob-themed parody of the Fresh Prince theme song I wrote when I was 10 and I have to imagine it was not very good.

 

Q. Who's the biggest furry music artist?

A. There are a few possible answers to this question:

• Car Seat Headrest are by some metrics the most notable indie rock band of the 2010s (according to RateYourMusic), playing late night talk shows and getting invited to When We Were Young Fest. They're the most famous musicians to still be active within the fandom.
• In terms of Billboard chart success, the most famous artist to ever self-identify as a furry is Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse, although his participation in the fandom is comparatively quite minimal and has been non-existent for several years.
• Electronic musician Emma Essex, having released music in different genres under hundreds of aliases, is beloved by YouTube's "YTPMV" subculture. If you combined the view counts of the thousands of remixes and uploads of their music, they may very well be the most streamed furry artist of all time.
• Video game composer Lena Raine has contributed to globally recognizable indie video games like Celeste and Deltarune, and also to the soundtrack of Minecraft (by some counts the best-selling video game of all time).
• Finally, I personally would give a nod to Andrew WK, a rare example of a bonafide mainstream celebrity with a deeper-than-surface-level connection to the culture.

 

Q. How popular is furry music?

A. The most-streamed band to be tagged "furry" on Spotify is Car Seat Headrest, with 1.4 million monthly listeners as of April 2026. Similarly, RateYourMusic had logged 5603 releases under the "furry music" tag as of the same month.

 

Q. Who is the website's mascot?

A. His name is Clef, and he is a busker. He is a blue raccoon, harkening back to a fursona I actually used as a teenager in the mid-2010s. His "mask" is two eighth notes :)