Be Your Own Pet

In both of their incarnations, Be Your Own Pet make the most of Jemina Pearl's livewire vocals and her bandmates' surging garage-rock. While they were still in their teens, they blasted out of Nashville, Tennessee in the mid-2000s with music that was as frenzied as it was catchy. Their careening noise-pop -- and Pearl's lyrics in particular -- tapped into the exuberance and chaos of being young, and on 2006's Be Your Own Pet and 2008's Get Awkward, they blurred the boundaries between fun and violence. This volatility, along with the pervasive sexism Pearl encountered, led the ...