Lisa Loeb
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Lisa Anne Loeb is an American
singer-songwriter and actress. She launched her career in 1994 with the song, "Stay (I Missed You)
". She was the first artist to have a number one single in the United States while not signed to a recording contract.
Loeb's efforts now include music, film, television, voice-over work and children’s recordings. Her five studio CDs include her major label debut, the gold-selling Tails
and its follow-up, the Grammy-nominated, gold-selling Firecracker. Loeb has appeared in two television series, Dweezil & Lisa
, a weekly culinary adventure for the Food Network
and Number 1 Single, a dating show on the E!
Network in 2006.
, and raised in Dallas, Texas
, where she attended The Hockaday School
, an all-girls private school
. Her parents still live in Dallas, where her mother is a homemaker and her father, Dr. Peter Loeb, is a gastroenterologist. She has three siblings, all involved with music: conductor Benjamin Loeb, musician Debbie Loeb
, and mixing-engineer Philip Loeb. After graduating from high school in 1986, she went to Brown University
, where she graduated in 1990 with a degree in comparative literature
. At Brown, she and Elizabeth Mitchell
formed a band named Liz and Lisa
, including future singer/songwriter and Brown classmate Duncan Sheik
as a guitarist. The duo released the albums Liz and Lisa (1989) and Liz and Lisa: Days Were Different (1990) independently. After college, the jazz/rock bassist Rick Lassiter and TV and film composer/drummer Chad Fisher joined the band.
After developing a following together, Loeb and Mitchell parted ways a few years after college. Loeb began working with Juan Patiño to make the Purple Tape
, the violet cassette that Loeb used as a sonic calling card to industry gatekeepers and that fans could buy at her gigs. Produced by Patiño and recorded at his apartment on 52nd Street in 1992, the cassette includes the earliest recordings of several Loeb favorites including “Do You Sleep,” “Snow Day,” “Train Songs,” and “It’s Over.” Loeb also took this time to record her band playing some other songs, one of which was "Stay (I Missed You)
." During the same time, she was recording a band demo with Kevin Salem for a record company demo deal.
Loeb had also developed a following from her solo acoustic
performances on the New York City
coffeehouse circuit and the rock club circuit. She travelled to cities such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles
, Dallas, but focused mainly on New York City. She played acoustically and with her band in folk
and rock
clubs, including The Bitter End, CBGB’s, CB's Gallery, The Wetlands, Lonestar Roadhouse and more. Loeb also performed at several music festivals, such as the New Music Seminar
and South by Southwest
.
, who lived in an apartment across the street from her in New York City. They met through mutual friends in the NYC theater community. Loeb gave Hawke the Juan Patiño-produced version of "Stay (I Missed You)
", who in turn gave it to director Ben Stiller
during the making of the 1994 film Reality Bites
. Stiller subsequently decided to use the song in the film’s ending credits, and Ron Fair decided to put it on the soundtrack on RCA records
. "Stay" ultimately went on to become a number one hit on the American charts
. When her song hit number one, Loeb earned the distinction of being the only artist to top the Hot 100 before being signed to any record label. Hawke also directed a rare one-take video of “Stay” with no edits.
In September 1995, Loeb's debut album, Tails
, was released. The album was co-produced by Juan Patiño, her then longtime boyfriend. Although none of the singles from Tails matched the breakthrough appeal of "Stay" (which was also included on this album), Loeb still managed a top 20 hit with "Do You Sleep?" and two moderately successful radio hits with "Taffy" and "Waiting for Wednesday". Tails went on to achieve Gold status.
In 1997, Loeb released a second major-label album, Firecracker, and began experimenting even more with orchestrations done with Dan Coleman
. At this point, Loeb started going under her own name for the albums instead of using the band name, Nine Stories (named after the J. D. Salinger collection
), although she still continued to tour worldwide with the band and acoustically as she had done from the start. Critically praised, Firecracker included hit singles such as "I Do
," which received radio success, peaking at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and music television.
tribute album Bat Head Soup performing "Goodbye to Romance" with Dweezil Zappa
on guitar. She also contributed to An All Star Tribute To Cher
with “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,” and to An All Star Tribute To Shania Twain
with “Don’t Be Stupid,” both of which were released in 2005.
Her greatest hits compilation, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb
, was released through Universal
in January 2006 as well as a Japanese
version of the album. Other international work includes Loeb’s guest performance on the song “Anti-Hero” for an all-female Japanese musical group Rin'
's album Inland Sea. In 2006, Loeb contributed to the album A World of Happiness, designed to disseminate messages of kindness, compassion, tolerance, and self-reliance to children of all ages, performing as Lady Leonali the Ladybug singing “In the Details.” Loeb contributed vocals to New Found Glory
's cover of "Stay," from their 2007 LP From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II
, as well as performing the song live with the band. Though Reality Bites
was the first, Loeb’s music has been featured in additional soundtracks. The popular single "How" was included on the soundtracks for films Twister
and Jack Frost
, and was heard in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Homecoming." “We Could Still Belong Together” earned a spot on the Legally Blonde
soundtrack (2001), while “I Wish” can be heard on the soundtrack for Anywhere But Here (1999).
Cake and Pie
, Loeb’s third album and debut for A&M/Interscope, was released in 2002. She co-produced the album and collaborated with an impressive cast, which included Glen Ballard
, then boyfriend Dweezil Zappa
, Randy Scruggs
(Vince Gill
, Sawyer Brown
, Waylon Jennings
), and Peter Collins
(Rush
, Bon Jovi
, Indigo Girls
). In mid-2002, Loeb inked a deal with Artemis
, a new boutique label run by record company veteran-experts Danny Goldberg and Daniel Glass, after Interscope allowed her to buy the rights to her masters. Artemis had come to Loeb and Ron Stone, offering to re-release the record with more promotion. With new artwork, some songs added and some removed, Cake and Pie was re-launched as Hello Lisa
, a play on Sanrio’s signature Hello Kitty
, who appears on the album cover wearing Lisa Loeb's trademark glasses. Lisa released an EP with just the new songs on it, as well as an alternate version of the song "Underdog" for fans who'd already purchased the Cake and Pie CD. Lisa made a video for "Underdog" co-starring Hello Kitty playing guitar directed by Lisa and Dweezil. Loeb toured the world again, making special stops in Sanrio
stores for in-store autographs while appearing with Hello Kitty at the Japanese MTV Music Awards.
In 2003, Loeb reunited with her college music partner, Elizabeth Mitchell on children’s CD and companion book Catch the Moon
through Artemis Records. Videos from this album as well as the single “Jenny Jenkins” have been featured on the Noggin TV network for children, alongside those of Laurie Berkner
and Dan Zanes
, rockers who have also crossed over into the children's music field.
In 2004, Loeb signed to the more experienced and established independent label Zoe/Rounder Records, home of Grammy Award
winners Robert Plant
and Alison Krauss
. The Way It Really Is
was released August 2004 as Loeb's fifth studio-recorded album.
The year 2008 proved a productive year for Loeb, as she released the long-awaited Purple Tape
album remixed and remastered on a double CD, with an in-depth interview by Andy Denemark, highlighting the creative process for each song to accompany extensive liner notes and photos documenting Lisa’s early history in NYC through Lisa’s own Furious Rose Productions, sixteen years after her self-release of the cassette
version in 1994.
Her most recent release was Camp Lisa
, also released by Loeb’s own Furious Rose Productions with distribution through Redeye, and produced by Loeb with Michelle Lewis and Dan Petty. The disc includes a mix of 21 original and classic camp songs and some very special guest performers including Kay Hanley
, Dave Gibbs
, Nina Gordon
, Jill Sobule
, Lee Sklar, Maia Sharp
and funnyman/banjo player Steve Martin
. As Loeb spent many summers of her childhood at summer camp, Camp Lisa is largely inspired by her own cherished camp memories as well as '70s-style rock and pop. Camp Lisa has garnered a great deal of award recognition including NAPPA Honors, 2008 Parents' Choice and NPR's year-end Top 10 list of the best kids music for 2008. In conjunction with the release of Camp Lisa, Loeb launched her own non-profit organization, The Camp Lisa Foundation, which helps raise funds to send underprivileged kids to camp through its partnership with SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Provide an Edge, Inc.), a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide children in need the edge to succeed in life through the summer camp experience. In 2009, The Camp Lisa Foundation will provide funding for several "camperships," enabling economically disadvantaged children to attend ACA accredited camps.
Loeb was a judge for the 1st and 8th annual Independent Music Awards
to support independent artists.
In November 2010, Loeb launched the Lisa Loeb Eyewear Collection, which features her eyewear designs.
first aired on Food Network
, in which she shared title billing with then-boyfriend, Dweezil Zappa
. The series showed the two musicians touring the country together and sampling unique and diverse dishes. In the opening for each episode Loeb announced she was a vegetarian who enjoyed eating an occasional piece of bacon
. In the fall and winter of 2005, Loeb taped a reality show, Number 1 Single, premiering in January 2006 on the E!
Channel in New York City
. The show focused on her quest for love, success, career, and family.
Loeb has made several guest appearances on television shows such as The Nanny
in 1997, and Cupid
, the following year. In September 1999, she made an appearance on the comedy show "MADtv," singing the theme song for a WB drama send-up called "Pretty White Kids with Problems." In 2007, Lisa appeared on an episode of Jack's Big Music Show
singing the song "Jenny Jenkins." In 2008, she made a guest appearance on Gossip Girl
, followed by a cameo on an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program
—where the cast formed a mock band called the “Loeb Trotters.”.
In addition to television shows, Loeb has also appeared in the horror films House on Haunted Hill
(1999) in a bit-part, Serial Killing 101 (2004), and Fright Night
(2011). She has done voice work including the voice of Mary Jane Watson
for the animated show Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
, broadcast on MTV
. Loeb also voiced the character of Lutina in the video game Grandia Xtreme
and characters for The Rugrats Movie
and Shorty McShorts' Shorts
.
, now Conan, on January 31, 2009. On September 2, 2009, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child. Loeb gave birth to a baby girl, Lyla Rose Loeb Hershkovitz, on November 29, 2009. Loeb identifies as Jewish.
In conjunction with Camp Lisa
, she launched her own non-profit, The Camp Lisa Foundation, designed to help underprivileged kids attend summer camp through its partnership with SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Provide an Edge, Inc.).
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singer-songwriter and actress. She launched her career in 1994 with the song, "Stay (I Missed You)
Stay (I Missed You)
"Stay " is a song and debut single by American singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, which became her breakthrough song in 1994. It was included on the Reality Bites soundtrack, as well as her debut album, Tails....
". She was the first artist to have a number one single in the United States while not signed to a recording contract.
Loeb's efforts now include music, film, television, voice-over work and children’s recordings. Her five studio CDs include her major label debut, the gold-selling Tails
Tails (Lisa Loeb album)
Tails is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 1995 by Geffen Records.The album was well received by the public, as it was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 1, 1995...
and its follow-up, the Grammy-nominated, gold-selling Firecracker. Loeb has appeared in two television series, Dweezil & Lisa
Dweezil & Lisa
Dweezil & Lisa was a 2004 Food Network television series presented by rock musicians and erstwhile couple Dweezil Zappa and Lisa Loeb. The duo traveled around America, sampling local music and cuisine....
, a weekly culinary adventure for the Food Network
Food Network
Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....
and Number 1 Single, a dating show on the E!
E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
Network in 2006.
Early years
Loeb was born in Bethesda, MarylandBethesda, Maryland
Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...
, and raised in Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, where she attended The Hockaday School
The Hockaday School
The Hockaday School is an independent, secular, college preparatory day and boarding school for girls located in Dallas, Texas, USA and surrounding areas...
, an all-girls private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
. Her parents still live in Dallas, where her mother is a homemaker and her father, Dr. Peter Loeb, is a gastroenterologist. She has three siblings, all involved with music: conductor Benjamin Loeb, musician Debbie Loeb
Debbie Loeb
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Loeb is a female singer/songwriter/actress and is the sister of singer/songwriter/actress Lisa Loeb. She is a native of Bethesda, Maryland, was raised in Dallas, Texas, where she currently lives...
, and mixing-engineer Philip Loeb. After graduating from high school in 1986, she went to Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, where she graduated in 1990 with a degree in comparative literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
. At Brown, she and Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell (musician)
Elizabeth Mitchell, a Smithsonian Folkways Recording artist, has been recording and performing music for children since 1998. Elizabeth was the first new children's music artist signed to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in the 21st century...
formed a band named Liz and Lisa
Liz and Lisa
Liz and Lisa was a band formed by Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell while both were enrolled at Brown University in the late 1980s. Both women were in the class of 1990 at Brown, and by the spring of 1990 had developed a unique and sweet sound. Loeb wrote most of the lyrics and music, and was the...
, including future singer/songwriter and Brown classmate Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik
Duncan Scott Sheik is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Sheik initially found success as a singer, most notably for his 1996 debut single "Barely Breathing". He later expanded his work to include compositions for motion pictures and the Broadway stage, leading him to involvement in the...
as a guitarist. The duo released the albums Liz and Lisa (1989) and Liz and Lisa: Days Were Different (1990) independently. After college, the jazz/rock bassist Rick Lassiter and TV and film composer/drummer Chad Fisher joined the band.
After developing a following together, Loeb and Mitchell parted ways a few years after college. Loeb began working with Juan Patiño to make the Purple Tape
Purple Tape
Purple Tape is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 1992 on audio cassette only. It was re-issued on 2-disc CD January 22, 2008.-Track listing:All songs written by Lisa Loeb.#"Snow Day"#"Train Songs"#"Hurricane"#"Come Back Home"#"It's Over"#"This"...
, the violet cassette that Loeb used as a sonic calling card to industry gatekeepers and that fans could buy at her gigs. Produced by Patiño and recorded at his apartment on 52nd Street in 1992, the cassette includes the earliest recordings of several Loeb favorites including “Do You Sleep,” “Snow Day,” “Train Songs,” and “It’s Over.” Loeb also took this time to record her band playing some other songs, one of which was "Stay (I Missed You)
Stay (I Missed You)
"Stay " is a song and debut single by American singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, which became her breakthrough song in 1994. It was included on the Reality Bites soundtrack, as well as her debut album, Tails....
." During the same time, she was recording a band demo with Kevin Salem for a record company demo deal.
Loeb had also developed a following from her solo acoustic
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
performances on the New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
coffeehouse circuit and the rock club circuit. She travelled to cities such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, Dallas, but focused mainly on New York City. She played acoustically and with her band in folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
and rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
clubs, including The Bitter End, CBGB’s, CB's Gallery, The Wetlands, Lonestar Roadhouse and more. Loeb also performed at several music festivals, such as the New Music Seminar
New Music Seminar
The New Music Seminar was a series of multi-venue music showcases held annually in New York City, in the month of June, from 1980 to 1995, then relaunched in 2009....
and South by Southwest
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...
.
"Stay (I Missed You)"
Loeb's big break came when she was discovered by actor Ethan HawkeEthan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...
, who lived in an apartment across the street from her in New York City. They met through mutual friends in the NYC theater community. Loeb gave Hawke the Juan Patiño-produced version of "Stay (I Missed You)
Stay (I Missed You)
"Stay " is a song and debut single by American singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, which became her breakthrough song in 1994. It was included on the Reality Bites soundtrack, as well as her debut album, Tails....
", who in turn gave it to director Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara....
during the making of the 1994 film Reality Bites
Reality Bites
Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Helen Childress and featuring the directorial debut of Ben Stiller. It stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Stiller, with major supporting roles played by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. The film was shot on location in Austin...
. Stiller subsequently decided to use the song in the film’s ending credits, and Ron Fair decided to put it on the soundtrack on RCA records
RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
. "Stay" ultimately went on to become a number one hit on the American charts
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. When her song hit number one, Loeb earned the distinction of being the only artist to top the Hot 100 before being signed to any record label. Hawke also directed a rare one-take video of “Stay” with no edits.
1990s
Tails (Lisa Loeb album)
Tails is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 1995 by Geffen Records.The album was well received by the public, as it was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 1, 1995...
, was released. The album was co-produced by Juan Patiño, her then longtime boyfriend. Although none of the singles from Tails matched the breakthrough appeal of "Stay" (which was also included on this album), Loeb still managed a top 20 hit with "Do You Sleep?" and two moderately successful radio hits with "Taffy" and "Waiting for Wednesday". Tails went on to achieve Gold status.
In 1997, Loeb released a second major-label album, Firecracker, and began experimenting even more with orchestrations done with Dan Coleman
Dan Coleman
Dan Coleman is a composer and music publisher.He studied music at the University of Pennsylvania, the Juilliard School, and the Aspen Music Festival and School where his teachers included George Tsontakis, George Crumb, William Bolcom, Robert Beaser, Stephen Albert and Bruce Adolphe...
. At this point, Loeb started going under her own name for the albums instead of using the band name, Nine Stories (named after the J. D. Salinger collection
Nine Stories (Salinger)
Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger released in May 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American...
), although she still continued to tour worldwide with the band and acoustically as she had done from the start. Critically praised, Firecracker included hit singles such as "I Do
I Do (Lisa Loeb song)
"I Do" is a song by Lisa Loeb from her album Firecracker, recorded in 1997. The song is also featured on The Very Best of Lisa Loeb.On the surface, the song seems to be about "the realization that a person isn't right for you, that the relationship has gone bad"...
," which received radio success, peaking at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and music television.
2000s
In 2000, Loeb participated in the Ozzy OsbourneOzzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
tribute album Bat Head Soup performing "Goodbye to Romance" with Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...
on guitar. She also contributed to An All Star Tribute To Cher
Cher
Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
with “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,” and to An All Star Tribute To Shania Twain
Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...
with “Don’t Be Stupid,” both of which were released in 2005.
Her greatest hits compilation, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb
The Very Best of Lisa Loeb
The Very Best of Lisa Loeb is a compilation album by Lisa Loeb, released in 2006 by Geffen Records. The album peaked at #25 on Billboards Top Digital Albums chart...
, was released through Universal
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
in January 2006 as well as a Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
version of the album. Other international work includes Loeb’s guest performance on the song “Anti-Hero” for an all-female Japanese musical group Rin'
Rin'
Rin is a Japanese pop group which combines traditional Japanese musical instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music. It is a female trio of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music alumni who graduated in 2003...
's album Inland Sea. In 2006, Loeb contributed to the album A World of Happiness, designed to disseminate messages of kindness, compassion, tolerance, and self-reliance to children of all ages, performing as Lady Leonali the Ladybug singing “In the Details.” Loeb contributed vocals to New Found Glory
New Found Glory
New Found Glory is an American rock band from Coral Springs, Florida. Formed in the summer of 1997, founding members were lead vocalist Jordan Pundik, guitarists Chad Gilbert and Steve Klein, bassist Ian Grushka and drummer Joe Marino...
's cover of "Stay," from their 2007 LP From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II
From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II
-Release history:-Credits:Band* Jordan Pundik – Vocals* Chad Gilbert – Guitar* Steve Klein – Guitar* Ian Grushka – Bass* Cyrus Bolooki – Drums / PercussionAdditional Musicians* Michael Bethancourt – KeyboardsGuest Appearances...
, as well as performing the song live with the band. Though Reality Bites
Reality Bites
Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Helen Childress and featuring the directorial debut of Ben Stiller. It stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Stiller, with major supporting roles played by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. The film was shot on location in Austin...
was the first, Loeb’s music has been featured in additional soundtracks. The popular single "How" was included on the soundtracks for films Twister
Twister
-Entertainment:* Twister , a comedy film starring Suzy Amis and Crispin Glover* Twister , a disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton** Twister...Ride it Out, a ride in Universal Studios Florida based on the film...
and Jack Frost
Jack Frost
Jack Frost is a sprite-like character with roots in Viking lore. There, he is known as Jokul Frosti . In Britain and United States, Jack is a variant of Old Man Winter and is held responsible for frosty weather, for nipping the nose and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and...
, and was heard in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Homecoming." “We Could Still Belong Together” earned a spot on the Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...
soundtrack (2001), while “I Wish” can be heard on the soundtrack for Anywhere But Here (1999).
Cake and Pie
Cake and Pie
Cake and Pie is an album by Lisa Loeb. It was released in 2002 through A&M Records. The first single "The Way It Really Is" was a moderate hit among college radio. "We Could Still Belong Together" was also included on the soundtrack to Legally Blonde. It was a commercial failure, having reached 199...
, Loeb’s third album and debut for A&M/Interscope, was released in 2002. She co-produced the album and collaborated with an impressive cast, which included Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...
, then boyfriend Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...
, Randy Scruggs
Randy Scruggs
Randy Scruggs is a music producer, songwriter and guitarist. He had his first recording at the age of 13...
(Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
, Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown is an American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida, by five members of country pop singer Don King's road band: Bobby Randall and Jim Scholten , both from Midland, Michigan; Joe Smyth , Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard , and Mark Miller...
, Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
), and Peter Collins
Peter Collins (record producer)
Peter Collins is a record producer, born January 15, 1951, in London.In 1976 Collins was signed to Magnet Records and formed a group called Madison, along with Ziggy, Peter Spooner and Page 3 girl Cherri Gilham, to perform his pop song "Let It Ring"...
(Rush
Rush (band)
Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...
, Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
, Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...
). In mid-2002, Loeb inked a deal with Artemis
Artemis
Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals"...
, a new boutique label run by record company veteran-experts Danny Goldberg and Daniel Glass, after Interscope allowed her to buy the rights to her masters. Artemis had come to Loeb and Ron Stone, offering to re-release the record with more promotion. With new artwork, some songs added and some removed, Cake and Pie was re-launched as Hello Lisa
Hello Lisa
Hello Lisa is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 2002 by Artemis Records. Hello Lisa has a similar track listing to Cake and Pie, although it is a re-release of the same album....
, a play on Sanrio’s signature Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty
is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States...
, who appears on the album cover wearing Lisa Loeb's trademark glasses. Lisa released an EP with just the new songs on it, as well as an alternate version of the song "Underdog" for fans who'd already purchased the Cake and Pie CD. Lisa made a video for "Underdog" co-starring Hello Kitty playing guitar directed by Lisa and Dweezil. Loeb toured the world again, making special stops in Sanrio
Sanrio
is a Japanese company that designs, licenses and produces products focusing on the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture. Their products include stationery, school supplies, gifts and accessories that are sold worldwide and at specialty brand retail stores in Japan...
stores for in-store autographs while appearing with Hello Kitty at the Japanese MTV Music Awards.
In 2003, Loeb reunited with her college music partner, Elizabeth Mitchell on children’s CD and companion book Catch the Moon
Catch the Moon
Catch the Moon is an album by Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell released in 2003 by Artemis Records. The album is a collection of children's music played in a folk music style. It comes in the form of a child's cardboard storybook written by Erin Courtney and illustrated by Bonnie Brook Mitchell...
through Artemis Records. Videos from this album as well as the single “Jenny Jenkins” have been featured on the Noggin TV network for children, alongside those of Laurie Berkner
Laurie Berkner
Laurie Berkner is an American musician best known for her work as a children's musical artist. Berkner plays guitar and sings in the Laurie Berkner Band, along with pianist Susie Lampert, bassist Adam Bernstein, and drummer Bobby Golden...
and Dan Zanes
Dan Zanes
Dan Zanes was a member of the popular 1980s band The Del Fuegos and is currently the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends.-History:...
, rockers who have also crossed over into the children's music field.
In 2004, Loeb signed to the more experienced and established independent label Zoe/Rounder Records, home of Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winners Robert Plant
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...
and Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
. The Way It Really Is
The Way It Really Is
The Way It Really Is is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 2004 by Zoe/Rounder.The album title got its title from a previous song by Loeb, The Way It Really Is....
was released August 2004 as Loeb's fifth studio-recorded album.
The year 2008 proved a productive year for Loeb, as she released the long-awaited Purple Tape
Purple Tape
Purple Tape is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 1992 on audio cassette only. It was re-issued on 2-disc CD January 22, 2008.-Track listing:All songs written by Lisa Loeb.#"Snow Day"#"Train Songs"#"Hurricane"#"Come Back Home"#"It's Over"#"This"...
album remixed and remastered on a double CD, with an in-depth interview by Andy Denemark, highlighting the creative process for each song to accompany extensive liner notes and photos documenting Lisa’s early history in NYC through Lisa’s own Furious Rose Productions, sixteen years after her self-release of the cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
version in 1994.
Her most recent release was Camp Lisa
Camp Lisa
Camp Lisa is a children's album by Lisa Loeb. The album features 19 children's camp songs, such as "Home on the Range", "Peanut Butter & Jelly", and "The Cookie Jar Chant". It was recorded and released in June 2008...
, also released by Loeb’s own Furious Rose Productions with distribution through Redeye, and produced by Loeb with Michelle Lewis and Dan Petty. The disc includes a mix of 21 original and classic camp songs and some very special guest performers including Kay Hanley
Kay Hanley
Kathleen Marie Hanley is an American alternative rock musician. She is best known as the vocalist for the band Letters to Cleo.-Life and career:...
, Dave Gibbs
Dave Gibbs
Dave Gibbs, born August 22, 1965, is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work in the Boston-based power-pop band, Gigolo Aunts....
, Nina Gordon
Nina Gordon
Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon is an American rock singer, and is the co-founder of the band Veruca Salt, having written the songs "Seether" and "Volcano Girls"...
, Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless...
, Lee Sklar, Maia Sharp
Maia Sharp
Maia Sharp is an American singer and songwriter. In addition to her solo career, she has written songs for and collaborated with several country and pop musicians including Cher, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Edwin McCain, and Art Garfunkel.-Early life:...
and funnyman/banjo player Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer....
. As Loeb spent many summers of her childhood at summer camp, Camp Lisa is largely inspired by her own cherished camp memories as well as '70s-style rock and pop. Camp Lisa has garnered a great deal of award recognition including NAPPA Honors, 2008 Parents' Choice and NPR's year-end Top 10 list of the best kids music for 2008. In conjunction with the release of Camp Lisa, Loeb launched her own non-profit organization, The Camp Lisa Foundation, which helps raise funds to send underprivileged kids to camp through its partnership with SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Provide an Edge, Inc.), a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide children in need the edge to succeed in life through the summer camp experience. In 2009, The Camp Lisa Foundation will provide funding for several "camperships," enabling economically disadvantaged children to attend ACA accredited camps.
2010s
Loeb tours with and without her band, recently touring with Daru Oda and Adam Levy. Other band members include: Mark Spencer, Matt Beck, Ronny Crawford, Joe Quigley, Joe Travers, Mark Meadows, Michael Eisenstein, Dave Gibbs, and Leland Sklar..Loeb was a judge for the 1st and 8th annual Independent Music Awards
The Independent Music Awards
The Independent Music Awards is an international program that honors top-ranked independent artists and releases in more than 50 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories....
to support independent artists.
In November 2010, Loeb launched the Lisa Loeb Eyewear Collection, which features her eyewear designs.
Acting and television appearances
On January 16, 2004, Loeb's reality show Dweezil & LisaDweezil & Lisa
Dweezil & Lisa was a 2004 Food Network television series presented by rock musicians and erstwhile couple Dweezil Zappa and Lisa Loeb. The duo traveled around America, sampling local music and cuisine....
first aired on Food Network
Food Network
Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....
, in which she shared title billing with then-boyfriend, Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...
. The series showed the two musicians touring the country together and sampling unique and diverse dishes. In the opening for each episode Loeb announced she was a vegetarian who enjoyed eating an occasional piece of bacon
Bacon
Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon . Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in cold air, boiled, or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon must be cooked before eating...
. In the fall and winter of 2005, Loeb taped a reality show, Number 1 Single, premiering in January 2006 on the E!
E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
Channel in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The show focused on her quest for love, success, career, and family.
Loeb has made several guest appearances on television shows such as The Nanny
The Nanny (TV series)
The Nanny is an American television sitcom co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc., and Fran Drescher in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network...
in 1997, and Cupid
Cupid (TV series)
Cupid is a 1998–1999 American comedy-drama series created by Rob Thomas, which featured Paula Marshall as Dr. Claire Allen, a Chicago psychologist who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale . Hale believes he is Cupid, sent down from Mt...
, the following year. In September 1999, she made an appearance on the comedy show "MADtv," singing the theme song for a WB drama send-up called "Pretty White Kids with Problems." In 2007, Lisa appeared on an episode of Jack's Big Music Show
Jack's Big Music Show
Jack's Big Music Show is a children's television program currently airing on the Nick Jr. television network. The show premiered on the same network on September 12, 2005...
singing the song "Jenny Jenkins." In 2008, she made a guest appearance on Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl (TV series)
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007...
, followed by a cameo on an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program
The Sarah Silverman Program
The Sarah Silverman Program is an American television series that starred comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, who created the series with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab...
—where the cast formed a mock band called the “Loeb Trotters.”.
In addition to television shows, Loeb has also appeared in the horror films House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill (1999 film)
House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror film, directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Jeffrey Combs. It also includes a cameo appearance by Peter Graves...
(1999) in a bit-part, Serial Killing 101 (2004), and Fright Night
Fright Night (2011 film)
Fright Night is a 2011 3D comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie. It is a remake of the 1985 Tom Holland film of the same name. The film had its premiere at The O2 in London on August 14, 2011, and was widely released on August 19 in Real D 3D & IMAX 3D.-Plot:The film opens with a vampire ...
(2011). She has done voice work including the voice of Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane Watson, often shortened to MJ, is a fictional supporting character appearing, originally, in Marvel comic books and, later, in multiple spin-offs and dramatizations of the Spider-Man titles as the best friend, love interest, and one-time wife of Peter Parker, the alter ego of Spider-Man...
for the animated show Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series is an animated series featuring the Marvel comic book superhero Spider-Man, which ran for one season, 13 episodes, starting on July 11, 2003...
, broadcast on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
. Loeb also voiced the character of Lutina in the video game Grandia Xtreme
Grandia Xtreme
is a console role-playing game developed by Game Arts and published by Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Released in both Japan and North America in 2002, the game is a side story in the Grandia series.-Gameplay:...
and characters for The Rugrats Movie
The Rugrats Movie
The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 American animated film, produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and first released in theaters in the United States on November 20, 1998....
and Shorty McShorts' Shorts
Shorty McShorts' Shorts
Shorty McShorts' Shorts is a Disney Channel animated anthology series, which consists of 5-minute shorts. The first episode aired on July 28, 2006. In Latin America, it is broadcast on Jetix.- Summary :...
.
Style
In 2008, Loeb was one of the contributors to Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's book Cherry Bomb; she gave advice on how to be the perfect hostess. In 2010, she launched her own branded line of eyewear.Personal life
Loeb married Roey Hershkovitz, the music coordinator for Late Night with Conan O'BrienLate Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
, now Conan, on January 31, 2009. On September 2, 2009, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child. Loeb gave birth to a baby girl, Lyla Rose Loeb Hershkovitz, on November 29, 2009. Loeb identifies as Jewish.
In conjunction with Camp Lisa
Camp Lisa
Camp Lisa is a children's album by Lisa Loeb. The album features 19 children's camp songs, such as "Home on the Range", "Peanut Butter & Jelly", and "The Cookie Jar Chant". It was recorded and released in June 2008...
, she launched her own non-profit, The Camp Lisa Foundation, designed to help underprivileged kids attend summer camp through its partnership with SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Provide an Edge, Inc.).
Discography
Studio albums- 1992: Purple TapePurple TapePurple Tape is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 1992 on audio cassette only. It was re-issued on 2-disc CD January 22, 2008.-Track listing:All songs written by Lisa Loeb.#"Snow Day"#"Train Songs"#"Hurricane"#"Come Back Home"#"It's Over"#"This"...
(re-released in 2008) - 1995: TailsTails (Lisa Loeb album)Tails is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 1995 by Geffen Records.The album was well received by the public, as it was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 1, 1995...
- 1997: Firecracker
- 2002: Cake and PieCake and PieCake and Pie is an album by Lisa Loeb. It was released in 2002 through A&M Records. The first single "The Way It Really Is" was a moderate hit among college radio. "We Could Still Belong Together" was also included on the soundtrack to Legally Blonde. It was a commercial failure, having reached 199...
- 2002: Hello LisaHello LisaHello Lisa is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 2002 by Artemis Records. Hello Lisa has a similar track listing to Cake and Pie, although it is a re-release of the same album....
- 2003: Catch the MoonCatch the MoonCatch the Moon is an album by Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell released in 2003 by Artemis Records. The album is a collection of children's music played in a folk music style. It comes in the form of a child's cardboard storybook written by Erin Courtney and illustrated by Bonnie Brook Mitchell...
- 2004: The Way It Really IsThe Way It Really IsThe Way It Really Is is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 2004 by Zoe/Rounder.The album title got its title from a previous song by Loeb, The Way It Really Is....
- 2008: Camp LisaCamp LisaCamp Lisa is a children's album by Lisa Loeb. The album features 19 children's camp songs, such as "Home on the Range", "Peanut Butter & Jelly", and "The Cookie Jar Chant". It was recorded and released in June 2008...