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Featured article: Rock and Roll Part Three

Rock and Roll Part Three is the debut album by Ozma. It was released on January 1, 2000 through Tornado Recordings, then re-issued on August 21, 2001 after Ozma was signed to Kung Fu Records.

During the recording of the album in 1999, bassist Daniel Brummel posted daily progress updates on the band's website, ozmaonline.com. Many songs that later appeared on the album were first recorded and released one year earlier as part of Ozma's demo compilation, Songs of Inaudible Trucks and Cars. This compilation was released for free on MP3.com.

Before a Weezer performance on the Vans Warped Tour, Ozma guitarist Jose Galvez was able to give a CD of the album to Brian Bell, who extended it to Rivers Cuomo. Ozma would later receive word from Justin Fisher that Cuomo loved the album and was "singing along to every word". This led to the band being invited to open for Weezer on the Yahoo! Outloud Tour in 2001 and the Hyper-Extended Midget Tour in 2002. The album's lead track, "Domino Effect", would also be selected by Cuomo in 2005 for his iTunes Celebrity Playlist. He described the song as Ozma "beating me at my own game."

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Featured song: "Iceland"

"Iceland" is a song by Ozma. It is the first track on the 1998 compilation Hear You Me! A Tribute to Mykel and Carli, and the second-to-last on Ozma's demo compilation, Songs of Inaudible Trucks and Cars.

Daniel Brummel summarized the song on Ozma's official website in 2000 as being about a long-distance relationship in which, quote, "...your only communications with them are through a keyboard." Earlier drafts of the song included the lyric "she screams for ice cream" instead of the chorus, "she left for Iceland." The title of the band's debut album, Rock and Roll Part Three, was taken from this song. The phrase initially spawned as a continuation of English musician Gary Glitter's songs "Rock 'n' Roll Part 1" and "Rock 'n' Roll Part 2".

The song was not performed live in full for over 20 years after June 1, 2001 at the No Future Cafe, but an abridged version has been used as an intro to Domino Effect at several concerts since 2007.

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On this day... December 13

1975 - Tom Delonge of blink-182 is born.
1993 - Weezer performs at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles, CA.
1996 - Weezer performs at the 328 Performance Hall in Nashville, TN on the Pinkerton Tour.
2001 - Weezer performs at the Kool Haus in Toronto, ON, Canada on the Extended Midget Tour.
2007 - Pitchfork Media publishes its review of Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.

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Featured quote: Daniel Brummel on arena rock, early 2000.

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When I think about the music that's closest to my heart, however, it's groups that do something undescribable, something beyond technical proficiency... groups like the Beatles and Nirvana had just enough chops to play the music that was running through their heads, and that's all they needed. For a long time my Mom had a magnet on our fridge by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a Craftsman era designer. It said, "There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist." That's something I really believe, that the sould of music is not in perfecting a guitar solo or a really dope pick slide or an amazing drum fill but in being human and attempting to use all of your technical tools to portray honest emotions, whether they're sorrowful, dramatic, cynical, nostalgic, loving, or even joking.

- Daniel Brummel, Furnari.net interview with Ozma - 2000

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