Video: Be Your Own Pet in the Studio

When we hung out with Be Your Own Pet at Lollapalooza last summer, lead singer and peroxide punk-rock vixen Jemina Pearl kept Thurston Moore -- her label's boss and the band's mentor -- on the edge of his seat recounting the plot of a gothic young-adult book she was reading. So what have Nashville's finest teenage thrash punks been doing since then? Getting their drivers licenses, touring with the Arctic Monkeys and working on the follow-up to last year's eponymous debut. Check out this exclusive video for an inside look at their yet-untitled sophomore album and what fuels their creativity (hot dog buns and candy, of course).

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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