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Who Nashville teenage garage rockers with a twisting groove who have opened for Kings of Leon and scored a hit on U.K. radio -- all without graduating high school.
Sound Seventeen-year-old singer Jemina Pearl's angry ray-of-sunshine vocals meet double-time drumming and loud fuzzed-out guitars. Their best songs, "Damn Damn Leash" and "Hillmont Avenue," are perfect sub-two-minute garage blasts. "At shows," says bassist Nathan Vasquez, 16, "by the end of every song, we're playing, like, twenty times faster than we were when we started."
Pet Pedigree Their parents include Vince Neil's manager, Burt Stein, and veteran songwriter Robert Ellis Orrall, Al Gore's buddy.
The Kids Are All Right Be Your Own Pet's first single is out on March 14th, and the band is playing South by Southwest with Hot Hot Heat and the Futureheads. Despite the group's growing acclaim, its favorite gigs are the manic dance parties played for friends at the recently closed Nashville all-ages venue Guido's Pizzeria. "Teenagers don't give a fuck," Pearl says. "Or maybe they just think they look cool when they dance."