Be Your Own Pet
Kirt Barnett
Back in March Be Your Own Pet shared "Hand Grenade," their first new material since reforming in 2022 for a series of live dates. Today the band has confirmed that more new music is on the way with an album titled Mommy scheduled for an August 25 release. It will be Be Your Own Pet's first album since they released Get Awkward in 2008.
"Mommy is the bitch in charge, the one in control," lead singer Jemina Pearl Abegg says in a statement of the new album. "It’s a reclamation of myself." As for "Worship The Whip," the song deals with right-wing authoritarian figures, people who Pearl describes as, "aggressive and domineering to people who don’t think like them, while at heart being a submissive to the authority figures who use and abuse them."
Be Your Own Pet will hit the road this Fall for their “Teenage Heaven” tour. The month-long run kicks off in Chapel Hill, NC on October 18 and concludes in Vancouver, BC on November 18. In between will be stops in Brooklyn for a show at Elsewhere on October 21 and at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on November 9. Tickets are on sale Friday, June 2 at 12 p.m. ET
Be Your Own Pet live dates
September 16 - Nashville, TN - Third Man Records Blue Room
October 18 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
October 19 - Washington, DC - Union Stage
October 21 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Hall
October 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
October 23 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
October 24 - Detroit, MI - Third Man Records
October 25 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
October 27 - Milwaukee, WI - The Back Room at Colectivo
October 29 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
November 8 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
November 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
November 11 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
November 12 - Santa Cruz, CA - Moe’s Alley
November 14 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow’s
November 16 - Portland, OR - Star Theater
November 17 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
November 18 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl