After spending nearly two-weeks in October opening for alt-rock veterans R.E.M. [ tickets ], singer-songwriter Pete Yorn [ tickets ] embarks on a solo tour that takes him through the rest of the month.

Yorn's six-show run on the arena circuit with R.E.M. gets underway on Oct. 1 in Philadelphia. From there, he headlines his own series of theater dates.

New Jersey-bred Yorn issued his sophomore album, "Day I Forgot," in mid-April, and it debuted at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 album chart, far surpassing the No. 111 peak of his critically acclaimed 2001 debut, "Musicforthemorningafter."

As he did on his debut album, Yorn played several instruments on "Day I Forgot," and also co-produced the set.

According to his record-company biography, Yorn started writing and singing his own songs after he sang The Replacements' "Talent Show" at a high school talent competition in 1990. He moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Syracuse, and spent four years playing the Los Angeles club circuit before landing a label deal.

Yorn's first major exposure came on the soundtrack to the 2000 Farrelly Brothers movie "Me, Myself and Irene," to which he contributed several songs. "Musicforthemorningafter," which eventually was certified gold for shipping more than 500,000 copies in the U.S., followed in March of 2001.

Yorn contributed his rendition of Bruce Springsteen's "New York City Serenade" to the forthcoming album "Light of Day: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen," which hits stores on Sept. 2.