I feel as if I've been kicked in the teeth.
I've been getting a pretty steady influx of new tunes lately, and I feel compelled to share one of my newest finds with you all lately. I may be a little late in the game for this, but one I can't seem to stop listening to is Nashville, Tennessee's be your own PET.
The band, fronted by 19 year old Jemina Pearl (none of the other band members are older than 18) have risen from the Nashville local scene, attracting attention from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who signed them to his Ecstatic Peace label. They've also played major festivals this year - Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, to name a few.
Their spazzy blasts of punk have drawn comparisons to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, and while the comparisons can be heard in the similarities in Pearl's and Karen O's voices, the buck stops there. There's an immediacy to BYOP's music that the Yeah Yeah Yeah's havent quite harnessed.
be your own PET will hit Chicago on September 26 at the Logan Square Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at TicketWeb.
Here's 'Adventure', a cut off of their self titled album released in June.
be your own PET - Adventure (mp3)
