If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Angelina Castillo It turns out Be Your Own Pet's 2023 reunion album Mommy wasn't just a one off, because the Nashville band are back with new music! "What a B*tch" is their latest single, and it's everything we want from Be Your Own Pet. It's a raw and furious noisy punk track that's wrapped in pop, and vicious in its humor. The song sounds like it could have some from their early 00's heyday, with only Jemina Pearl Abegg's vocals having improved since then. Be Your Own Pet have been one of my favorite bands ever since Thurston Moore and Iggy Pop raved about them, and I could not be more excited that they appear to truly be back. Jemina Pearl Abegg says of her band's new single: "’What A B*tch’ is an anthem for anyone who has ever been labeled too much, too loud, too brash, just because they dare to be themselves.  My daughter got called a ‘bitch’ by a classmate for the first time this year and was devastated by it. I told her eve...