Editing Counting Crows (section)

==== 2010–2013: Independent releases and individual projects ====
The album ''[[August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall]]'' was released on August 29, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/august-and-everything-after-live-at-town-hall-mw0002176700 |title=August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall – Counting Crows – Songs, Reviews, Credits |website= [[AllMusic]] |access-date=March 12, 2017}}</ref> The release marked the band's third professionally produced live album, and the first concert video of its career. The album used footage from the Town Hall concert, recorded in September 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eaglerockent.com/news/151CCD/Counting+Crows+-+Live%21 |title=Counting Crows – Live! |publisher=Eagle Rock Entertainment |date=July 15, 2011 |access-date=October 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927141439/http://www.eaglerockent.com/news/151CCD/Counting%2BCrows%2B-%2BLive%21 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |df=mdy}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=December 2019}}

The band released a covers album entitled ''[[Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)]]'' on April 10, 2012, with a cover design by a fan chosen in a promotional contest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://creativeallies.com/contests/314-Design-an-Album-Cover-for-Counting-Crows |title=Design an Album Cover for Counting Crows |publisher=[[Creative Allies]]|access-date=December 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103101611/http://creativeallies.com/contests/314-Design-an-Album-Cover-for-Counting-Crows|archive-date=January 3, 2012 |url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=December 2019}} After touring extensively in 2012 and 2013 in support of the album (including headlining ''The Outlaw Roadshow'', a traveling festival tour presented in conjunction with Ryan Spaulding of the music blog Ryan's Smashing Life, and touring North America in the summer of 2013 with [[the Wallflowers]]), the band began working on material for a new album. Duritz also took time in the summer of 2012 to begin co-writing a play called ''Black Sun'', which will also feature some music written by Duritz, including well-known rarity songs "Good Luck" and "Chelsea".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jct61/i_am_musician_adam_duritz_from_counting_crows_ask/cbdfuv1 |title=Reddit: I am Musician Adam Duritz from Counting Crows. Ask me anything... |publisher=Reddit|date=July 30, 2013|access-date=September 6, 2013}}</ref><ref name="MSN062613">{{cite web |url=http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/msn-exclusives-counting-crows/18k0t8bm3?cpkey=2c0acd77-2fd2-443d-9a15-4415e9db9cab%257c%257c%257c%257c |title=MSN Exclusives: Counting Crows |publisher=MSN Canada|date=June 26, 2013|access-date=September 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213202033/http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/msn-exclusives-counting-crows/18k0t8bm3?cpkey=2c0acd77-2fd2-443d-9a15-4415e9db9cab%257c%257c%257c%257c|archive-date=December 13, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A live album, ''[[Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow]]'', was released in North America in November 2013.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/counting-crows-put-on-outlaw-roadshow-album-premiere-70498/ | title=Album Premiere: Counting Crows Put on 'Outlaw Roadshow' | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=November 5, 2013 }}</ref>