Enjoy today’s extensive feature below. Jemina Pearl’s debut LP is out now.

MP3: Jemina Pearl – I Hate People

Enjoy ‘I Hate People’ below. View Spin‘s favorite full-lengths of 2009 here.

MP3: Jemina Pearl – I Hate People

Enjoy the brand new Q&A below. Jemina Pearl’s debut album is out now!

MP3: Jemina Pearl – I Hate People

The former Be Your Own Pet front woman will drop Break It Up on 10/6.

The full-length includes:

“Heartbeats”
“After Hours”
“Ecstatic Appeal”
“Band On The Run”
“I Hate People”
“Looking For Trouble”
“Retrograde”
“Nashville Shores”
“No Good”
“D Is For Danger”
“Selfish Heart”
“Undesireable”
“So Sick”

Visit Jemina Pearl on MySpace.

MP3: Jemina Pearl – I Hate People

For three shows in a row this week, the over arching theme was definitely: KIDS.

I feel that I should dredge up something to say about Whirlwind Heat… you know, they weren’t really my thing but for what they do, they do it well. Certainly, it seemed that lots of the young boys in the front were very excited about the whole thing.

I just went searching for how old the boys in the group are, thinking that they are no more than 20, but they are 24. 24. Geeze. Time has been good to them. Sometimes, a band’s live show far outshines their album and at times it is vice versa. Despite just thinking the live act was ok, I’d like to hear Whirlwind’s new album, the one with the sexy cover I adore, before I make a decision about this group. The press about it certainly has me intrigued. What I did love about their set was at the end they let a kid from the audience bang on the cymbel as the did a final rock out before running off stage.

Check out Laura’s picture of the boys in the bar after the show.

During the set change, my crew and I went searching for a beer then found a spot to sit upstairs while we waited for Be Your Own Pet. Danny Masterson sauntered upstairs and sat against the wall while the balcony was still empty. So cute in person. He’s my favourite 70′s show guy AND he’s from Strong Island. When Be Your Own Pet came on, he stood and leaned against the balcony rail and I convinced Miss Modernage to go stand next to him since there was a mini sized spot available.

Remember when I said up there that some band’s albums far outshine their live performance? Yeah, in this case that is true. In person, BYOP’s songs are rather indistinguishable but the album is pretty enjoyable, especially the song ‘Adventure.’ I recommend going to see them, however, if they blow through your town. Pitchfork gave their album a great review and the big-wigs seem to love it so I would say it would be worth paying the small amount it is now to see them and figure it out for yourself.

You can stream the entire album here.

PS: One kissing with tongues to the theatre geek who can tell me what musical the blog title is from.

Okay, so I had no idea that when Jen posted Be Your Own Pet’s ‘Adventure‘, I’d be about to listen to one of my standout tracks of 2006 so far; and this was especially surprising, since I’d heard some random stuff of theirs and been left thinking… meh. But the mail brought me the record, and I’ve been caught hook, line and sinker. Snappy, loud, mindlessly, gratuitously and superbly full of gratuitous swearing (‘Bunk Trunk Skunk’) Be Your Pet has the same kind of excitement as I always associate with taking a chainsaw to a shed; it’s jump up and down, kick out and dancing on the dining room table kind of music. BYOP claim to like boredom ‘cuz then you can SMASH IT!’; not surprising for a band that exhorts you to burn it all down (‘We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol’). But you’re not going to get bored listening to Jemima Pearl’s voice, which matches the razor-sharp guitar work, and challenges it for… razor-sharpness; although she also displays a softer sensibility to match the punk stylings on ‘October, First Account’. Similarly, the band’s sense of humour is as twisted as the music; check out the video for ‘Adventure’, which features a bunny hunt which culminates as bunny’s friend cries and the band tuck into rabbit barbeque.

Credit also has to go to any band that designs their own record sleeves with crayons.

It’s pretty breathless stuff, especially coming from a band made up entirely of asthma sufferers, but keep up; it’ll be worth it!

Watch the video for first single, (58 second long) ‘Let’s Get Sandy’ here.

Be Your Own Pet – Fuuuuuun (yousendit / megaupload)
Be Your Own Pet – October, First Account (yousendit / megaupload)

Remember, they’re touring all over the place!

…of Be Your Own Pet’s summer tour. Mainly because I’m loving that bicycle song of theirs and the one about adventures. Man, I love adventuring. So go and see them.

I would myself, but there’s no sign of any UK dates on there.

*sigh*

06.01.06 – Cincinnati, OH (Southgate)
06.02.06 – Chicago, IL (Subterranean)
06.03.06 – Cleveland, OH (Beachland)
06.04.06 – Columbus, OH (Little Brothers)
06.06.06 – Detroit, MI (Magic Stick – Release Party)
06.07.06 – Toronto, ON (Mod Club)
06.08.06 – Montreal, QC (Petite Campus)
06.09.06 – Easthampton, MA (PACE)
06.10.06 – Hoboken, NJ (Maxwells)
06.12.06 – New York, NY (Knitting Factory)
06.14.06 – Philadelphia, PA (Starlight Ballroom w/ Sonic Youth)
06.15.06 – Washington, DC (9:30 Club w/ Sonic Youth)
06.17.06 – Asheville, NC (Orange Peel w/ Sonic Youth)
06.18.06 – Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo)
06.19.06 – Atlanta, GA (Earthlink Live w/ Sonic Youth)
06.21.06 – Houston, TX (Walters)
06.22.06 – Austin, TX (Emos)
06.24.06 – Phoenix, AZ (Brickhouse)
06.25.06 – Pomona, CA (Glass House)
06.27.06 – Los Angeles, CA (Troubadour)
06.28.06 – San Francisco, CA (Bottom Of The Hill)
06.30.06 – Seattle, WA (El Corazon)

PLUS! If you live in Dallas, you can go and see the Hourly Radio every Sunday in May at the Cavern Club… for free! Hurrah!

I like Be Your Own Pet. They are like the American version of The Noisettes – a bunch of punk kids jumping around on stage, totally loving rocking out. You almost feel that even if there was no audience, they’d still be there jumping around.

They have a new self-titled album hitting stores in America on 6/6 (this site’s birthday by the way – we expect presents) and we’ve got a few tracks to wet your whistle.

Download track three, ‘Bicycle; Bicycle you are my bicycle’
and
‘Adventure’, track 5. You can watch the video for ‘Adventure’ here.

The group will be heading back to the US on April 27th where they will be playing Pop Scene (@ 330 Ritch) in San Francisco, CA. April 30th they’ll be at Coachella.