Be Your Own Pet

This article is about the Tennessee rock band. For the album, see Be Your Own Pet (album).
Be Your Own Pet
Be Your Own Pet in 2008
Be Your Own Pet in 2008
Background information
OriginNashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres
Years active
  • 2003–2008
  • 2021–present
Labels
MembersJemina Pearl
Jonas Stein
Nathan Vasquez
John Eatherly
Past membersJamin Orrall

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.

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]

  1. ^ Snapes, Laura (March 18, 2022). "'I was susceptible to being taken advantage of': Be Your Own Pet return after surviving sleazy indie". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  2. ^ "Be Your Own Pet reuniting to open for Jack White, first shows in 14 years". BrooklynVegan. March 15, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  3. ^ "Be Your Own Pet Announce New Album Mommy Share New Single/Video For "Worship the Whip" – Third Man Records – Official Store".