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Sitting in the Nashville house where they formed, Be Your Own Pet reminisce about their early years, all the way back in 2002. “Jonas was the only one with a driver’s license,” recalls Jemina Pearl. “He’d drive us all here, we’d practice until dinner, then our parents would pick us up.” Now with a second album, a spunky blast of garage punk called Get Awkward (Ecstatic Peace), BYOP have moved on to a more professional practice space. “My mom misses us,” says Jonas Stein.