The follow-up to Marcy Playground [ tickets ]'s self-titled 1997 album is set to hit the stores on Nov. 2, and the band will embark on a club tour on the same day. In the meantime, the alternative rockers have lined up some radio station festival shows.

The new album, titled ''Shapeshifter'' (Capitol), features 12 tracks, many of which have long been in the band's live set. The first single is ''It's Saturday.''

Fans who pre-order the album through a participating Internet record store will be able to download two tracks from the album per week until the official Nov. 2 release date. The first two tracks were made available on Saturday (9/25). Further details are available at the Capitol Records website.

Marcy Playground's path to success hit a roadblock in mid-1997 when EMI, the label that released the band's debut album, closed its doors. The accompanying uncertainty caused the band to call off some tour dates, and the band's single ''Sex And Candy'' initially failed to take off.

But the band later signed with Capitol Records, which re-released ''Sex And Candy'' as the first single from the ''Hurricane Streets'' soundtrack. A re-release of the entire debut album on Capitol Records followed.

The single began to take of on alternative radio at the very end of 1997, and wound up spending record 15 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The follow-up single, ''Saint Joe On The School Bus,'' failed to garner the same success, but did receive significant airplay on alternative and rock radio stations.

At the end of 1998, the band took a break from two years of near-constant touring to record the new album.