The Olms

Pete Yorn has a new band/project called The Olms…the single sounds promising.

“Wanna Feel It” video:

Pete Yorn: European Tour

Click here to see a list of Pete Yorn’s May and June tour dates in Europe.

Dum Dum Girls

Dum Dum Girls released a great cover of “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” by The Smiths.

Album version:

Live version:

This song has been covered by many artists — listen to versions by Nada Surf, Death Cab for Cutie, and Pete Yorn below:

Tour: Pete Yorn & Ben Kweller

Pete Yorn and Ben Kweller are going on tour together. See a full list of dates here.

New Pete Yorn

You can listen to Pete Yorn’s new song “Precious Stone” below:

“Dancing in the Dark” Covers

The song “Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen has spawned some interesting covers.

Steel Train, Pete Yorn, Tegan and Sara, and Amy Macdonald have done some good covers of the song:

The original:

Bands, Twitter, & Popularity

How many Twitter followers do certain bands and artists have?

After The Show follows popular bands with millions of followers to bands with thousands and even only hundreds of followers. Frequent tweeting, contests, and funny/witty tweets are the key to Twitter popularity.

Many Followers:

Lady Gaga @LadyGaga has 3,784,048 followers

Pete Yorn @PeteYorn has 1,221,674 followers

Joe Jonas @JoeJonas has almost 560,000 followers

Moderate Amount of Followers:

Ryan Ross @ThisIsRyanRoss has 55,569 followers

Uh Huh Her @UhHuhHerMusic have 18,929 followers

Alex Greenwald @Alecksu has almost 7,000 followers

Ben Kweller @BenKweller has 16,001 followers

Robert Schwartzman @RCSchwartzman has 11,609 followers

Room to Grow:

The Watson Twins @TheWatsonTwins have 1,210 followers

Holly Miranda @HollyMiranda has 3,684 followers

The Donnas @the_donnas have 6,602 followers

The Like @ILoveTheLike have 2,699 followers

Eisley @Eisley have 6,455 followers

June Songs

Songs that have titles of months are usually interesting. Today’s post features songs about the month of June.

“June on the West Coast” by Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst):

“June Gloom” by The Like:

“June” by Pete Yorn:

Scarlett Johansson

Before releasing the album Break Up with Pete Yorn, Scarlett Johansson released her own album of Tom Waits covers (including one original song) called Anywhere I Lay My Head.

Live from AOL sessions: “Falling Down”

“Yesterday Is Here”:

Here voice is very deep in these videos, and she definitely improved her vocals for her collaboration with Pete Yorn.

Here’s the best song about Scarlett Johansson, by Steel Train, called ”Better Love”:

Nada Surf

Here’s a great cover of “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” by Nada Surf (original song by The Smiths):

Bonus: Here’s a live cover version of the same song by Pete Yorn: