1. Music made by furries, including original songs, covers, and jam sessions.
2. Musical works that evoke furry/anthropomorphic ideas, sonically and lyrically exploring anthropomorphic animals.
3. A vibrant community of DIY artists catering to furry audiences.
A resource I've spent 6+ years hand-maintaining. This is a google spreadsheet of every publicly-available furry artist, with genre, founding date, and listening platform data.
stoopTalk - Furry Music Podcast 👥A podcatcher-friendly show hosted by Will Scuttlefuzz, co-hosted by myself and Ceej Wolfears.
What Is Furry Music? Telegram Channel 📰My monthly list of album/song recommendations from the furry music scene. I make sure to include both new releases and older finds.
Although furry music can be considered its own "part" of a simpler furry community, there are many sub-communities of furry music. They exist to allow musicians to find and support eachother more directly, with things like collaborations, booking live shows, and sharing fanbases.
Whether all of these are full blown "scenes" in a traditional genre sense is up for debate. Not all of these scenes have real-world locations or regular online spaces to meet, but from the people I've met over the years I feel it's obvious that people are putting in the effort to make the impact of a traditional "music scene", especially for the benefit of artists.
These subcultures can take form in a few different ways, here are some (non-exhaustive) examples I've seen of these subcultures taking place:
Hip hop and rap furries tend to use eachothers' talents to promote eachother more effectively. Things like shooting videos, producing, recording verses, and promoting eachother on social media.
Rock furries will look to other furry rock bands or solo projects for booking shows. More furry artists on a bill makes for a unique show specifically for furries, outside of usual convention dates and venues.
Many electronic and pop furries run their own online communities, share stems, and reach out to feature on eachothers' songs.
There exist annual/occasional furry music concerts that focus on furry music localized to a specific area.
Some US-centric examples include Bumpersnoot (Seattle), Foona Fest (D.C.), Feral Fest (Boston), The Sex Room (US East), and Roadkill Funeral (Southern Alberta).
Furry conventions have long been the way we meet in-person with other furries, so it's no surprise that many conventions have dedicated music programming as part of their special weekend.
Most conventions don't use a dedicated slot of several artists running back to back (like a traditional venue show) due to the nature of the limited space and busy convention schedule. But some conventions do try to assemble a block to play out like a traditional multi-act show.
Animal Music (ANE) is the best example I can think of for this kind of show. They've been running their music acts back to back like this for years, in an attempt to provide a professional space for concerts as part of the convention.
Anthrocon also has a dediated music block every year, where they look for artists to promote and run as part of a concert for their main stage.
While I'm not as involved with these, there's often some good online shows you can attend in VRchat, or occasionally you can catch a twitch livestream of furry music depending on who you're following.
Furality is the big VRchat online convention, and (as far as I know) since their inception they've been featuring furry music as part of the convention. Not just electronic music either! They're doing a great job of carving out space for furry musicians who want to perform in VR.
The furry tape label trickyStoop is run from the east coast, and aims to highlight and celebrate interesting furry music releases by releasing them on professionally dubbed cassette tapes. trickyStoop also runs indieAnthro (furry streaming playlists, furry music blog) and stoopTalk (furry music podcast).