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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson — Break Up

When one goes through a breakup, one sometimes tries to suppress all memories of one's former partner in an effort to get over them. It's probably ironic, then, that there's next to nothing memorable about Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's new collaborative album. Break Up is full of gentle, somewhat catchy folk-pop tunes, and while there's...
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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson — Break Up

Pete Yorn — Back & Fourth

Oh, Pete Yorn. So wise in the way of singer-songwriter balladeer types. After all, he's got the winning formula down pat: strum an acoustic guitar, sing in a soothing voice about love and hope and how everything's gonna be OK, the sun will come out tomorrow, all that jazz. (Oh, and being rather good-looking is a requirement. How else did John...
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Pete Yorn's Back & Fourth

Pete Yorn — Live In New Jersey

Morristown, New Jersey isn't exactly the most rock ‘n’ roll city in the world, but as Pete Yorn's hometown, where better a place to record a live album? Amidst the occasional female shriek of "Pete!" Yorn puts on a lengthy and charismatic show worthy of the two discs it fills. "Carlos (Don't Let It Go To Your Head)" is a...
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Pete Yorn - Live In New Jersey

I Read The News Today... For June 10, 2010

Pete (Yawn) Yorn will release a new album that he recorded with Pixies' Frank Black on Sept. 28. That means it has 20 per cent less chance of putting you to sleep. —Paste Ryan Adams now says his new album is not Dio-inspired. Apparently he got some flack from Dio fans over that, saying he was using someone's death for his own benefit. —Paste...
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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up

Bless her heart for having reasonably good taste and still giving it a good try, but if Scarlett wasn't a big boobied film hottie this album and the crashing waves of boredom that come with it would never exist.
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Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson — "The Realtor"

The black and white video for Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's "The Reader" finds the "couple" trying to ignore each other in the same room. Fitting, considering their upcoming collaborative album is called Break Up.
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Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's Break Up

Pete Yorn On Matt Good Track

Matt Good has been spending his days doing more than just yardwork. The songwriter will soon release his upcoming fourth solo album, Vancouver, and recently made one of the tracks, "Vancouver National Anthem," available for streaming in honour of his birthday (June 29). The kicker: Pete Yorn is on guest vocals. "A lot of people...
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Pete Yorn, Scarlett Johansson Break Up

Forget David Bowie, Tom Waits and TV On The Radio's David Sitek. Who needs them when you have Pete Yorn? Scarlett Johansson will release a duets album titled Break Up with Yorn on Sept. 8 through ATCO/Rhino. The disc was produced by electronic artist Sunny Levine (The Happy Mondays, Simply Red) and is inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's work in the '...
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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson's Break Up

Pete Yorn Goes Back And Fourth

Pete Yorn will release his fourth album, the aptly titled Back And Fourth, on June 23 via Columbia Records. The singer/songwriter spent two months last year recording the follow-up to 2006's Nightcrawler in Omaha, Neb. with producers Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley) and Rick Rubin (Weezer, Metallica). Yorn worked with a backing band — who...
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Pete Yorn (Photo by Jim Wright)

"When You See The Light..."

Photographer: 
ChartAttack Staff
Venue: 
Guvernment
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
July 14, 2003

Bonnaroo 2007: Day Four

Photographer: 
Scott Ramsey
City: 
Manchester, TN
Date: 
June 17, 2007
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Pete Yorn: Yearns For Validation From The Simpsons

Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn has finally completed his trio of themed albums — Musicforthemorningafter, Day I Forgot and Nightcrawler — and is out on the road for his aptly named Morning, Day And Night Tour. ChartAttack spoke with Yorn over the phone from his backyard in Mar Vista, California before he embarked on an extensive North American tour...
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Pete Yorn Loves Playing In Sloan

Singer/songwriter Pete Yorn has had songs featured in Dawson's Creek, Spider-Man and Me, Myself And Irene. He's toured around the world with the likes of Foo Fighters, Coldplay and Weezer. But Yorn says that none of that can top touring with R.E.M. "They were just heroes of mine to begin with. We got to hang out, and I watched their set...
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Pete Yorn Readies Trilogy-Ending Album And Tour

American singer/songwriter Pete Yorn is nearing completion of his third full-length album and is making plans for an intimate U.S. tour this summer. The new record, Nightcrawler, will hit stores on Aug. 15 via Columbia. Yorn has described the album as the final act in a trilogy that began with his 2001 debut, Musicforthemorningafter, and...
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The Circus That Was The Strokes

If you happened to be sauntering around Queen West yesterday in search of new pants or maybe some fancy boots, you'd have surely noticed the untold amount of Sloan Pretty Together posters stapled to, literally, every post along Queen between John and Spadina. If you didn't know there was a new Sloan record coming out before yesterday, you sure as...
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The Strokes invade Toronto amid mucho hype.
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