I Hate People

Ex-Be Your Own Pet singer Jemina Pearl has that contemptuous rock and roll sneer down cold. A couple of years back, when BYOP opened for a certain highly-hyped Brit band at the Electric Factory, the now 22 year old Pearl looked out of the crowd and said," So, I guess you're all Arctic Monkeys fans, huh?" as if there were no lower life form on earth. On the first single from her solo debut, Break It Up, which is just out on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, she playfully continues in that misanthropic vein with "I Hate People," an updated girl-group ditty in which she makes an exception for Iggy Pop, who chips in on vocals. In the video, she's the bored waitress, and Sonic Youth's Moore is the short order cook. The Nashville native's MySpace is here, and her blog, Puke Till You Punk, is here. Pearl plays the First Unitarian Church tonight, sandwiched between Islands and Toro Y Moi.

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