Biography
Hometown: Nashville, TennesseeBe Your Own Pet like: caffeine, sugar, candy, spicy food, vinyl records, XTC, Television, T Rex, tar pits, sea creatures ? octopi, giant squid, sea horses, submarines, bicycles, climbing trees, skateboarding, asthma inhalers, funghi, making stuff up, making kids dance, Waffle House. MOJO ? ?Be Your Own Pet are a bunch of young kids with a female vocalist who?s like 15, 16 years old. They?re really loud. They use vulgar words. You feel like you?re watching something you shouldn?t. It?s like true punk rock.? Caleb Followill, Kings of Leon NY TIMES Sunday Arts & Leisure This gawky, squawky young Nashville punk band just released a messy but exhilarating two-song single. During a two-minute tantrum called ?Damn Damn Leash,? the guitarist Jonas Stein bashes out some compressed chords, while the singer Jemima Abegg spits and shivers out the lyrics through clenched teeth, delivering one of the year?s most entertaining kiss-offs: ?You?ve got me on a leash/ A damn damn leash/ And it?s hard enough to be my damn self.? ZANE LOWE, BBC RADIO 1 evening show / MTV2 Gonzo ?Be Your Own Pet are the band I?m most excited about in 2005? RODNEY BINGENHEIMER / KROQ RADIO, Los Angeles, CA ?Be Your Own Pet is my new favorite band. I?ve played ?Damn Damn Leash? every week since I got the cd!?
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