The Bad Penny (beta)

Hatched in Carbondale, Illinois, a few years back, Pet Mosquito have already outlived every single mosquito that has ever existed on the planet. (Average lifespan for a male mosquito is 10 days; for a female mosquito, it’s about 50 … a tear is shed.) But the arty garage-rockers are still getting their sea legs, so to speak, having issued just one studio record thus far (August 2023’s Head in Bag). They’re currently on the road, staying limber after the release of Live at the Lamplighter Lounge in October 2023 and their Pre Apocalypse Motorcycle Music EP 11 months later.

Tonight will be a special one for the band, and perhaps even more so Boise, as they land here for the first time to play a gig at Realms Arcade. The band consists of singer/guitarist E Gariepy, bassist Evan Hall, drummer Berget Borowitz and trombonist Jessie Groninger. Gariepy recently checked in with The Bad Penny in anticipation of the show, to discuss the young band’s impressive tour history, recall the CIA’s experiments on human beings and joke around.