Cruisin' with Sponge and Marcy Playground

The hot thing in recent years for '90s bands is to do a cruise... you get a captive audience of your fans that you can play four or five sets to, and you get to go on a free cruise. Better than Ezra did a cruise, Guster have done a cruise, Barenaked Ladies have done a cruise... Sister Hazel and Dexter Freebish have done cruises.

But a cruise with Sponge and Marcy Playground? That's an odd bill. Who out there is a diehard fan of both of these bands? Sponge were basically off the radar by the time Marcy Playground ever had a hit.
Anyway, Sponge have a new album, Galore Galore, out on indie Bellum Records, and are playing sporadic dates in May and June (all east of the Mississippi) prior to the cruise in October. Marcy Playground don't appear to have done much since MP3 in 2004, which had the single "Punk Rock Superstar." That was a pretty good track.



*As an aside, how great is that Marcy Playground album cover? Supposedly it was originally supposed to be a Butthole Surfers album cover, but after it was rejected, Marcy took it.