news (4.27.10)

"THE NEW TENANTS" wins the oscar!! I was a producer on the film "The New Tenants", directed by Joachim Back, which has just won the academy award. I also sing the song at the end of it, which you can listen to here. I was there! EVERY MONDAY IN MAY AT THE LIVING ROOM! every monday in may we'll be playing at the living room. i'm doing something different every week! "THERE'S NO WAY" HEARD ON ABC's PRIVATE PRACTICE!! My song there's no way was on this week's episode of PRIVATE PRACTICE. Right at the beginning. You can watch it here here. NEW SONG for WNYC/Civilians i wrote new song called 'US' for my friends THE CIVILIANS show about D-I-V-O-R-C-E which was played as part of their segment on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show. download it here. Reni Lane's album "Ready" comes out march 16 Reni Lane's album "Ready" features 7 songs written and co-written by Sam Bisbee, including a reimagining of Sam Bisbee's song YOU ARE HERE. Sam also produced 4 of the songs on the record. It is being released on Linda Perry's Custard Records with Universal Motown. Reni is amazing! click here New album is finally available "son of math teacher" is finally out nationwide. buy it anywhere that sells music: amazon, itunes... Sam Bisbee signs publishing deal Sam Bisbee has just signed a publishing deal with NETTWERK!!! NEW VIDEO BY TOBIAS PERSE tobias perse has directed a video for the acoustic version of the song OXYGEN. He used nothing but pieces of modelling clay and a projector to do it and it's brilliant: click here to see it. new video check out the great film my friend Jeff Scherr made for an acoustic version of Oxygen which will be on our upcoming record. Using 30 seconds of footage from an amusement park on the jersey shore, he has created a kaleidescope. It's really beautiful. click here to see it. NEW SONG EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES a new song from our upcoming CD is available as part of a new compilation from a great record label called Le Grand Magistery click here to get it. XM Radio Our XM radio show is going to be broadcast January 21, 2008 along with Sonia Kitchell... click here for the info CINGULAR ad with CAT POWER I produced and arranged a special version of the NERVES song (made popular by BLONDIE) "HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE" for a CINGULAR ad with CAT POWER singing. It was directed by Lance Acord. You can see it here. Song written for Volkswagen Ad in France click here to check out this VW ad from France directed by Joachim Back which i wrote an original score/song for. New song (untitled) licensed by MTV/WALMART for TRL campaign click here to check out the new MTV promo featuring an instrumental track from the new album 3 songs licenced for new NBC show "windfall" 3 songs from the new album ("oxygen", "lifting off", and "ready to get ready") have been licensed for the upcoming NBC show Windfall, starring Luke Perry. Champions The upcoming indie film Champions, written and directed by David Wike and starring Kevin Corrigan and Clea Duvall (and David Wike) has chosen the song "Album Track" as it's closing credits song. "Champions" premiered at this year's SXSW film festival NEW VIDEO click here to see the beautiful new video directed by Jeff Scher for the song "let it", from OXYGEN. GM licenses BUCKET SEAT General Motors has licensed the song BUCKET SEAT for it's new ad campaign... EMUSIC CRISP COMPILATION check out the new song that we just recorded for EMUSIC's Crisp compilation... it's called "the sun shines where you are" and you can stream it by clicking here... we recorded it and mixed it in an afternoon and it's the first recording of the current band (brad gunyon, owen fegan, dan green and me) so we're really psyched to have our sound on tape... YOU ARE HERE chosen for STARBUCKS/NEMO compilation "you are here" has been chosen as part of a compilation put together by STARBUCKS to be sold throughout the Northeast! STAY licensed by CVS for national ad campaign if you see an ad for CVS with gigantic, 10 story high letters being removed from city streets, and the music sounds familiar, it's because they licensed an instrumental version of STAY (from "high"). the ad was directed by lance acord, who was the DP on "lost in translation", "adaptation", "being john malcovitch" etc... 3 SONGS LICENSED FOR "STEAL ME", premiering at SUNDANCE HURRICANE, BREAKING AND YOU ARE HERE have been licensed for a film called STEAL ME, which will be premiering at this year's SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL... click here to check out the trailer which features "hurricane" as the backing track. YOU ARE HERE licensed by MTV/ACUVUE if you think you've been hearing YOU ARE HERE on MTV you haven't been hallucinating. it was licensed by MTV and ACUVUE for the VMA ad campaign... And click here to download last year's special acoustic version of CUBICLE LOVE SONG "Singer, multi-instrumentalist Sam Bisbee may not yet be a household name... In the meantime, why not pick up his sensational CD, 'high', so when you inevitably find yourself gushing about Bisbee's impeccable pop smarts and juicy hooks, you'll know what you're talking about."     -- Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe