History
Marcy Playground publicity photo. Known as for the formative location inside lead singer John Wozniak's childhood, a Marcy Open grammar school around Minneapolis, Marcy Playground emerged in the late 1990s with a uncontaminating & subdued alt-rock healthy.

Woz's number 1 effort, Zog BogBean - From either a Marcy Playground was basically a solo operate, recorded within chamber studios at the turn of the decade. A guide rock revolution was flowering, & he was attending college at its center within Olympia, sharing warehouse space by having elastic like Nirvana and Blue Moon and Company (lead singer Jason Frost shared a college residence hall using Woz).

Fallowing college, Woz moved east to New York, where Marcy Playground began to coalesce around a songs that would get a self-titled album. Bassist Dylan Keefe & drummer Dan Rieser filled out a band's healthy, & complemented Woz's songwriting. A self-titled album was freed inside 1997, & Marcy Playground emerged into a mainstream by owning a profits of the individual "Sex and Candy." Marcy Playground keep mum & minimalist around tone, however filled by owning emotion & childhood mental imagery. Woz's songs process within numerous different styles: a few come modern folk music; many keep around undertones redolent of kids's songs; a blurred healthy of psychedelia makes appearances; and then there are a songs in which Woz clearly defines himself as a rock man. Much of it's commercial message draw was wash to a profits of the Seattle & the grunge-infuenced healthy.

Marcy Playground's next outing was 1999's Shapeshifter, within several ways the supplementary complex album than Marcy Playground, despite non existence when much of a profits commercially as the self-titled album. A songs come yearn & harder-edged than people on the self-titled album, & have a other superimposed healthy. Whereas virtually all of Marcy Playground has the sense of a quiet, unplugged live show, Shapeshifter is clearly amp-caused rock, & perhaps potentially less grime inspired.

The minor tilt come to weak in Marcy Playground's BBS when it was revealed that the handle art for Shapeshifter got originally been conceptualized per Butthole Surfers for another album, so pitched to Marcy Playground by Capitol Records as original work from either their art department. There is no protective feelings ensued between a elastic, however neither act for Capitol any longer. Marcy Playground is at present sign by using Reality Amusement.

Fallowing Shapeshifter, drummer Dan Rieser left a band to pursue more interests. the positiwithin was yet filled on his recommendation by Gonz, a friend world health organization experienced as well played in elastic that opened for Marcy Playground.

Marcy Playground's third album, MP3, was freed around 2004 by having an potentially little commercial profits. MP3 healthy a pattern of evolution from either Shapeshifter, by owning the extra electrical healthy & less of an acoustic sense. A few of the songs in MP3 likewise featured further open messages just about Woz's feelings on the music industry & politics. This processed MP3 arguably further topical than last Marcy Playground albums, a songs of which seemed to have a additional usually dateless quality.

To this day Marcy Playground has done little whenever any traveling for the MP3 ablum & own however to match a profits of their only "Sex and Candy". It is as well usually considered the of these-hit question.

Personnel
Todays: John "Woz" Wozniak, lead vocals, guitar, songwriter, producer Dylan Keefe, bass, backing vocals Gonzalo "Gonz" Martinez De La Cotera, drums, backing vocals Past: Dan Rieser, drums, backing vocals

Discography

Albums
Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground (1990 in music) Marcy Playground (1997 in music) Shapeshifter (1999 in music) MP3 (2004 in music)

Soundtracks Featuring Marcy Playground
Hurricane Streets Cruel Intentions Simply Irresistible Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back