Marcy Playground continues its stranglehold on the top of the "Billboard" Modern Rock Chart as the band's "Sex And Candy" is now enjoying its 13th week in the number one spot... not bad for a band that found itself without a record label last year.

The New York trio was on EMI when that label dissolved last year, leaving the band to wonder what their collective future held.

"It was a shock," Marcy Playground frontman John Wozniak told MTV News of the label's demise. Fortunately, the band had "Sex And Candy" to keep them afloat.

"There were some radio stations that just kept banging the record. They just kept playing it," Wozniak said of the song. "I'm sure somebody asked them to stop, like, 'Hey, put this on the QT for a second' because there's all that promotional stuff that goes on in the radio business. They didn't. They were like, 'You know what? People are requesting this song. We're gonna' keep playing it.' [1MB QuickTime] So I think Capitol Records (the label the band is now signed to) was just curious about that, and they decided to pick up the contract that was left in the wake of the EMI catastrophe."

In addition to helping the band land on its feet, the "Sex And Candy" track has also helped the band's self-titled album achieve gold sales status, which may be a more important victory.

"A single in a way is sort of like a commercial for your record," drummer Dylan Keefe told MTV News. "I mean, it's one song that the industry picks to put out so that people get interested in the whole record, but we put the energy into the entire record. We try to make every song great, so someone else sort of decides that and we allow them to because our business is not the business... that's their business."

"Our business is the music," Wozniak added. "So if we're happy with the record, then anything they pick is gonna' be fine with us."

"They know more about marketing than we do," [850k QuickTime] Keefe noted.

Marcy Playground is currently flaunting its lack of business savvy and its knowledge of music on the road. After their own tour wraps up, you can catch them on the road with Everclear this summer.

Here's where they will be before that:

  • 3/17 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
  • 3/18 - Toronto, ONT @ Lee's Place
  • 3/20 - Syracuse, NY @ Styleen's
  • 3/23 - New York, NY @ Tramps