Stuffed Animals: a Story in Paper Cutouts by Joe Boruchow will be released the evening of March 19th in conjunction with the debut of a new performance by Boruchow's band, The Nite Lights. The show includes a slide show of the graphic novel with musical score played live by the band.

Stuffed Animals is a narrative composed of 100 black paper cutouts. It tells the tale of a young boy and his shocking discoveries over one adventurous and terrifying night. An apparition from the past guides the hero through a dangerous secret world in this masculine coming of age story. "Is manhood more than just a mustache?", asks Boruchow, the 34 year old self taught artist and musician. Get the book and see! Four years in the making, the book was awarded a Xeric Foundation grant for graphic fiction allowing for the publication of a hard bound edition that will be available at the show.

In addition to celebrating the release of the book at Johnny Brenda's on March 19, The Nite Lights will debut their most ambitious project to date. They have been composing the music since November for the 20 minute slide show of Stuffed Animals that will be shown silent movie-style with the live band. The Nite Lights will play it twice: once at 9 pm (for early birds) and again later at 12am (for you night owls) with the sweet sounds of Mondo Topless, Northern Liberties and DJ Brown Jeff sandwiched in between for an extra delicious evening of artsy entertainment.

To buy the book visit Kettle Drummer Books or fine Philadelphia booksellers. You can also see more of Boruchow's artwork at www.joeboruchow.blogspot.com and listen to more music by The Nite Lights.

Since Halloween 1992, Mondo Topless has defied all logic and reason by continuing to dish out its garage-punk slop to dozens upon dozens of appreciative fans. The band's mission is simple: Pile into the van, drive to the show, play "three chords and a cloud of dust" rock n roll, and suck down as many free drinks as possible. In pursuit of this goal, the band has traveled all over the U.S.A. (or at least the parts they can reach within reason), appearing with such luminaries as Southern Culture On The Skids, The Cynics, Dick Dale, Mudhoney, the Lyres, the Original Sins, the Fleshtones, the Woggles, Ronnie Dawson (R.I.P.), and many more.

Northern Liberties have been described as "Somewhere between the dissonant riff-heavy freakouts of Lightning Bolt, sullen Cure/Joy Division gloom, melodic hardcore marches, and spacey, psychedelic angular avant-punk that touches on USAISAMONSTER, folk, and cosmic effects tripouts, bound together with bizarre feverdream lyrics and really cool zoned out vocals" by Crucialblast.net, and "Something obtuse and beautiful" by the Philadelphia City Paper.