Quick: What pops into your head when somebody says “furries?” Chances are it’s one of two things: A) “Who? I don’t even know what that is.” B) Some kind of scene involving people dressed in large, fuzzy animal costumes and…

[ theater ] Human Fruit Bowl, by Andrea Kuchlewska and Harmony Stempel Attended: Sun., Sept. 8, 8 p.m., at Voyeur Nightclub; closes Sun. Sept. 21 Ever wonder what goes through the mind of a live nude model while she poses? WE…

Do you believe in the new emo revival? Does it matter what we call it? To me, a lot of these bands feel fresh and exciting, like opening a new box of sneakers. The Hotelier and Foxing — two bands…

Do you believe in the new emo revival? Does it matter what we call it? To me, a lot of these bands feel fresh and exciting, like opening a new box of sneakers. The Hotelier and Foxing — two bands…

Masked Intruder is very dedicated to its concept: a band of color-coordinated ski-mask-wearing petty criminals hopelessly in love, playing an effortless power-pop that’s equal parts Jersey Boys and Screeching Weasel. Singer Intruder Blue (in the blue ski mask) and the…

Neal Santos PARTY PEOPLE: Kite Party — (L-R) Pat Conaboy, Andre Pagani, Justin Fox, Russell Edling and Tim Jordan — came up in the Tamaqua, Pa., D.I.Y. scene. Ask Russell Edling, singer/guitarist of Philadelphia band Kite Party, pretty much anything…

City Paper grade: A-  A vague tension permeates The Wind Rises, the final film directed by animation auteur and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. How could it not? Since debuting in Japan this summer, this semi-fictionalized biopic of Japanese aircraft…

Neal Santos Left to right: Sam Cook-Parrott, Cynthia Schemmer, Jon Rybicki, Jeff Bolt It’s 2014, and Sam Cook-Parrott prefers to record and release music on cassette.  Aside from last year’s Something Wild (Salinas), which was pressed on vinyl, every Radiator…

The Lawrence Arms | a- Floating somewhere between a noir novel and a death-bed manifesto, Metropole (Epitaph), the first Lawrence Arms LP in eight years, finds its characters in isolation, drifting through an empty city, vaguely aware that it’s all…