Pete Yorn News

New Jersey native Pete Yorn took a rather unique route to singer/songwriter acclaim, gaining his first big break by providing the score to a Farrelly Brothers film.

Soft rocker Pete Yorn tackled a good portion of his catalog at the Fox Theatre on Saturday.

As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation.

There's a different Pete Yorn on display on his new CD, "Back & Fourth." And nobody knows this better than Yorn himself.

From Mark Knopfler to Stewart Copeland, it often happens that after putting in a couple decades charting pop radio hits, musicians end up in Hollywood, scoring soundtracks for major motion pictures for the duration of their careers.

Pete Yorn and special guest Isaac Russell are scheduled to perform Saturday, November 21.

Poor Pete Yorn . He deserves a fate better than the hand he was dealt last Thursday night at Push Ultra Lounge , a hip downtown St.

He'll never be mistaken for a household name. But after scoring "Me, Myself and Irene," Pete Yorn earned a four-star rave in Rolling Stone for his first album, "Musicforthemorningafter," and went on to carve out a name for himself as that rare breed of young singer-songwriter who understands the value of a well-placed adrenalin rush.

If sweat is a valid indicator of a musician's effort to entertain, then Pete Yorn's show at the 40 Watt was close to being a funeral as the band battled perspiration by remaining coldly stiff.

Julian Casablancas, frontman for the Strokes, released his first solo album, 'Phrazes for the Young,' on Tuesday.

ACTING UP: Scarlett Johansson is heading to Broadway. Actress Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut starring as a 17-year-old in a revival of American playwright Arthur Miller's drama A View from the Bridge .

After years of seeing other singer-songwriters breeze past him into the mainstream, Pete Yorn is finally front and center.

With two albums released, headlining dates and a tour supporting Coldplay -- 2009 has been the busiest year of Pete Yorn's career.

Like most other people, I really loved Pete Yorn 's first album, m usicforthemorningafter .

With two albums released, headlining dates and a tour supporting Coldplay - 2009 has been the busiest year of Pete Yorn's career.

Recorded in 2006, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn and singer-actress Scarlett Johansson's minimally produced duet album, Break Up, deserves its belated release.

Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix , but new music also pours into stores.

Historically, when a popular young actress like Scarlett Johansson decides to break into the bright, shiny world of music, the results usually fit somewhere between forgettable and disastrous.

Just north of Indianapolis, Anderson University has become a musical haven of sorts -- the most famous recent alumnus of the private liberal arts school being pop artist Jon McLaughlin.

Quickie CD Reviews: ScarJo and Yorn, Apples in Stereo and Juliette Lewis September 4, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Ivan Pena Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn Break Up Inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn teams up with actress Scarlett Johansson for Break Up , a sweetly-produced and easy-to-enjoy album.