Marcy Playground Biography

Marcy Playground can be called an alternative rock band from the United States currently consisting of lead singer and guitarist John Wozniak, bassist Dylan Keefe, and drummer Shlomi Lavie. Wozniak moved east to New York in order to work with multi-instrumentalist/producer Jared Kotler who Wozniak had known from suburban Philadelphia. Kurt Rosenwinkel a mutual friend introduced bassist Dylan Keefe to John Wozniak and Marcy Playground began performing in NYC. The band was signed to capitol in 1995 and they performed a series of NYC club dates that would be the first incarnation of Marcy Playground as a band. Personal problems between John and Jared reached a peak after a year of playing the New York music scene and drummer Dan Rieser was brought in to replace Jared. Their self-titled album was released in 1997 with the first single Poppies released soon after. Marcy Playground emerged into the mainstream with the success of the single Sex and Candy. The song spent 15 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album went platinum and managed to spawn two other singles Saint Joe on the School Bus and Sherry Fraser.

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