Peter Bjorn and John is a Swedish indie pop/rock band formed in Stockholm in 1999, named after the first names of the band’s members: Peter Morén (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Björn Yttling (bass, keyboards, vocals), and John Eriksson (drums, percussion, vocals). Yttling was also the band’s producer for the first four albums.
Their 2006 single “Young Folks,” which featured Victoria Bergsman, formerly of the Concretes, was a top 20 hit in the UK Singles Chart and was featured in the football video game FIFA 08, the baseball video game MLB 2K13, the singing game Lips, as the school project in the film Bandslam, as part of the soundtrack of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as the opening track in the pilot episode of Gossip Girl, as the theme song to British Television adverts It was also awarded NME’s second-best track of 2006, trailing only “Over and Over” by Hot Chip. In Australia, it was ranked 16th in the 2006 Triple J Hottest 100. Lars Skoglund of the band Laakso has filled in on drums and played bongos at certain live gigs in recent years since Eriksson got tinnitus and injured his shoulder on the tour for 2011’s Gimme certain.