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Be Your Own Pet

Be Your Own Pet (also known as BYOP or stylised as be your own PET) is a punk/garage rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2003. For most of their career, the band's line-up has consisted of lead vocalist Jemina Pearl, guitarist Jonas Stein, bassist Nathan Vasquez and drummer John Eatherly. After originally releasing early singles and EPs with Nashville-based Infinity Cat Records, the band signed to XL Recordings and Thurston Moore's label, Ecstatic Peace/Universal Records in the UK & North America respectively.

This article is about the Tennessee rock band. For the album, see Be Your Own Pet (album).

Be Your Own Pet

  • 2003–2008
  • 2021–present

Jemina Pearl
Jonas Stein
Nathan Vasquez
John Eatherly

Jamin Orrall

Be Your Own Pet released their self-titled debut album in 2006, receiving critical acclaim from publications such as NME and Pitchfork. Shortly following the release of their second album Get Awkward in 2008, the group disbanded, citing misogyny directed towards and experienced by Pearl and a general burnout from pressures of the music industry as the reasons for their split.[1]


Following a fourteen year hiatus, they reunited in 2021 after being specifically requested by American musician and songwriter, Jack White to open up on a few southeastern US dates of his Supply Chain Issues Tour in support of the two studio albums he would release that year.[2] They subsequently signed to Third Man Records (co-owned by White and Pearl's husband, Ben Swank) soon after, where the group released their third studio album, Mommy on August 25, 2023.[3]

– lead vocals (2003–2008, 2021–present)

Jemina Pearl

Nathan Vasquez – bass, backing vocals (2003–2008, 2021–present)

– guitar, backing vocals (2003–2008, 2021–present)

Jonas Stein

– drums, backing vocals (2006–2008, 2021–present)

John Eatherly

Current members


Former members


Timeline

(2005) (Japanese release) (Infinity Cat/XL/Rough Trade)

Damn Damn Leash EP

(April 18, 2006) (Ecstatic Peace/Infinity Cat)

Summer Sensation

Extra Extra EP (2005) (Infinity Cat)

Not Rocket Science (May 8, 2007) (Infinity Cat)

(2008) (Ecstatic Peace/XL)

Get Damaged EP

(2005)

SXSW

(2005)

Glastonbury Festival

(July 16, 2005)

Siren Music Festival

(August 2005)

Summer Sonic Festival

(April 30, 2006)

Coachella Festival

2006

Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival

(June 13, 2006)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Subterranean Guide (, July 30, 2006)

MTV2

2006 (August 5, 2006)

Lollapalooza

(2006)

Reading and Leeds Festivals

(June 3, 2008)

MTV Live (Canada)

(2008)

Reading and Leeds Festivals

Jam, James. . NME.

Review

Raposa, David. . Pitchfork Media. June 6, 2006.

Review

Blender Online. Jan/Feb 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2007.

"The 50 Greatest CDs of 2006"