Be Your Own Pet on tour circa 2006
In the mid-2000s, Be Your Own Pet was a meteor. Arriving at an inflection point in the local punk scene, as the NextGen era faded and the Infinity Cat era emerged, they captivated music blogs and international media with a ferocious tangle of fists and sweat and Heathers-esque snarl. The current emo nostalgia moment shows that it’s not always easy to recapture that teen-angst lightning in a bottle. But in their first shows in 14 years — which included a righteous gig at Soft Junk and a handful of dates opening for Jack White — it was like BYOP never stopped raging.
