Marcy Playground
Rock
The next Marcy Playground concert is scheduled for Saturday, July 19, 2025 at The Yardbird in McAlester, OK, United States. See all 4 upcoming concerts
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About Marcy Playground
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Formed
1994
Genre
Rock
Marcy Playground frontman John Wozniak named the alt-rock trio after the yard at Marcy Open Elementary School, which he attended while growing up in Minneapolis.
∙ Released in 1997, the group’s self-titled debut album was certified Platinum.
∙ “Sex & Candy,” their downbeat smash hit, set a record when it spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1997.
∙ The video for “St. Joe On the School Bus,” from their debut album, was directed by Hammer & Tongs, the creative team behind the 2005 film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
∙ All of the tracks on the 2010 collection Indaba Remixes From Wonderland were crowdsourced and licensed from Marcy Playground fans around the world.
Members of Marcy Playground include, or have included, John Wozniak and Dan Rieser.
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