Nashville's Jake and Jamin Orrall, aka JEFF The Brotherhood, formerly of Be Your Own Pet, play a satisfyingly straightforward, minimal style of psychedelic rock 'n' roll that now and again reminds me of a cleaner-cut power-popping Misfits (it's in the... CONTINUE READING NEW JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD VIDEO - "U GOT THE LOOK"»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in , , (7 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | JEFF The Brotherhood | The Decemberists
For Iggy Pop's most recent curious career turn, he's doing a poppy duet with his granddaughter (just kidding) ex-Be Your Own Pet vocalist Jemina Pearl. The track's "I Hate People" from her forthcoming solo debut Break It Up. It may... CONTINUE READING NEW JEMINA PEARL (FEAT IGGY POP) - "I HATE PEOPLE"»
Posted on July 24, 2009 in (12 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Iggy Pop | Jemina Pearl
After being ousted from McCarren Park when the city decided to spent $50MM to restore The Pool as an actual pool, Jelly NYC found a new home for their free summer show series in the upscale hipster haven that is... CONTINUE READING MISSION OF BURMA/FUCKED UP/PONYTAIL/JEMINA PEARL KICK OFF THE 2009 POOL PARTIES @ WILLIAMSBURG WATERFRONT, BROOKLYN 7/12/09»
Posted on July 13, 2009 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Fucked Up | Jemina Pearl | Mercury Prize | Mission Of Burma | Ponytail | Sweet Billy Pilgrim
The ex-Be Your Own Pet vocalist has been busy with Sonic Youth (and vice versa), but she found the time to post three new, poppy solo tracks at MySpace. Folks who attended her live solo debut at the Music Hall... CONTINUE READING JEMINA PEARL POSTS THREE NEW SOLO TRACKS»
Posted on June 1, 2009 (7 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Bloc Party | Jemina Pearl | Leeds | The Mary Onettes
Those of you afraid Jemina Pearl's post-Be Your Own Pet "legacy" would be capped by her cover of "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" with the ever grim Thurston Moore should likely stop worrying about things like that, but can also... CONTINUE READING JEMINA PEARL MAKES SOLO DEBUT IN BROOKLYN»
Posted on January 19, 2009 in (10 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Explosions In The Sky | Extra Golden | Jemina Pearl
On this week's Gossip Girl, Jenny Humphrey threw a guerrilla fashion show at a charity event honoring Lilly and Bart Bass. The soundtrack: Thurston Moore and Jemina Pearl (of now defunct Be Your Own Pet) covering "Sheena Is a Punk... CONTINUE READING THURSTON MOORE AND JEMINA PEARL COVER THE RAMONES ON GOSSIP GIRL»
Posted on November 5, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Gossip Girl | Jemina Pearl | Passion Pit | Popo | Sonic Youth | Thurston Moore
Kevin Shields wasn't the only one doing interviews at ATP. After his Don't Look Back set, looking back on Psychic Hearts, Thurston Moore sat with a Rolling Stone film crew to offer his thoughts on the ATP Festival past and... CONTINUE READING THURSTON MOORE TO COVER THE RAMONES WITH JEMINA PEARL FOR GOSSIP GIRL »
Posted on September 24, 2008 (6 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Jemina Pearl | Sonic Youth | Thurston Moore
Before Be Your Own Pet made a video for the banned-in-the-USA tune "Becky," we told you the Tennessee punks were calling it quits after their UK tour. It's now after their UK tour. They are no longer. While drying your... CONTINUE READING BE YOUR OWN PET BOW OUT IN LONDON»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Bon Iver | M. Ward | SXSW
As reported, Be Your Own Pet called it quits and are headed to the UK for their final tour. But don't worry -- they're like 10 years old, will have other bands someday even beyond their current side projects. Before... CONTINUE READING NEW BE YOUR OWN PET VIDEO - "BECKY" »
Posted on August 7, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Antony Hegarty | Be Your Own Pet
Sad news for fans of the young TN punkers. This comes via BYOP's MySpace (hat tip to reader John P. for the link): To all of our fans, We are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows... CONTINUE READING BE YOUR OWN PET CALL IT QUITS, PLOT FINAL TOUR»
Posted on August 1, 2008 (18 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Rye Rye | SXSW
Being an American school kid can suck, but at least rock 'n' roll will always understand. The educational system's trappings have inspired great art like "School's Out," "Hot For Teacher," and on. But the food fight, this is a relatively... CONTINUE READING NEW BE YOUR OWN PET VIDEO - "FOOD FIGHT!"»
Posted on March 27, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet
Controversy aplenty this a.m. First, we talked about the Web Sheriff's oddball mission and now we have good ol' fashioned censorship (yeah, this shit happened even before the Internet was invented!). If you're a Be Your Own Pet fan, or... CONTINUE READING UNIVERSAL DEEMS BE YOUR OWN PET'S BEST TRACKS TOO VIOLENT FOR AMERICA»
Posted on March 24, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet
If you're a party hopper, today is your day. Well if you allow us to be biased for a minute ... you probably should head to Volume for our party (My Brightest Diamond, Nada Surf, Destroyer, Peter Morén, et al)... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY PARTY PICKS»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | My Brightest Diamond | Nada Surf | Peter Morén | Robyn | SXSW | The Duke Spirit
"The Kelly Affair" was one of the tunes BYOP started streaming a few weeks ago. Since then, Jemina fought off some boozy, gropey Mercury Lounge guy, and now she and her fellow Pets turn up in costume for a party... CONTINUE READING NEW BE YOUR OWN PET VIDEO - "THE KELLY AFFAIR"»
Posted on March 11, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet
Exactly a month ago BYOP let us in on what was in store with Get Awkward (more Karen O, more raucousness, more bruising young garage punk jams -- just aged a bit), and last night Stereogum photog Abbey Braden hit... CONTINUE READING BE YOUR OWN PET @ MERCURY LOUNGE, NYC 2/20/08»
Posted on February 21, 2008 in , (14 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet
Say yeah yeah yeah to four new tracks from BYOP's forthcoming Get Awkward, out 3/18 on Ecstatic Peace/Universal. Jemina's stringing raw and rough-hewn pearls of wisdom and scenery painting about the Pets' surroundings: everybody partying all the time, drowning pressure to change with lots of pills and beers. It's like junior year of high school in song! (via P4K)
Posted on January 21, 2008 (1 comments)
