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If you're still crying about Be Your Own Pet's sudden end last August, you are a wuss and you don't deserve to be a true BYOP fan. Seriously, that shit was five months ago. Get over it.

Just look at former lead Pet Jemina Pearl-- it's not like she's sitting around watching "Gossip Girl" while eating a pint of mint chocolate chip. She's soundtracking "Gossip Girl" with the help of Thurston Moore. Plus, she's getting a new band together, writing and recording songs, and playing her first solo show. That show happens this Saturday, January 17, at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg opening for recently reunited punks the Fluid. What have you done in the last five months?

Pearl's new band may look a little familiar. It includes ex-BYOP drummer John Eatherly along with Turbo Fruits bassist Turbo Max and Ryan Sawyer, drummer for Brooklyn country-folkers Tall Firs. Will the new group rip your head off and hurl it in a gutter a la BYOP or is this Pearl's "quiet" moment when she sits on a stool and hums "Big Yellow Taxi" to herself?