Records and was playing shows with Ida, Mary Lou Lord, Juliana Hatfield, Lois, and Elliott Smith, piewackit fell apart, and O'Neil moved to New York City in 1997.
Marykate O'Neil was included on CMJ's "Best of 2002" list, and three songs from the album were covered by Japanese film and television star Tomoyo Harada.
Her independently self-released followup album, 1-800-Bankrupt, was soon picked up by the Nettwerk music group in North America and by MVS Records in France.
Also in 2006, her song "Mundane Dream" was featured in the Sundance award-winning film Stephanie Daley starring Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, and Timothy Hutton.
Among them: Matthew Caws (of Nada Surf), Jim Boggia, Lianne Smith, Ken Maiuri (of Pedro the Lion and The Soft Drugs), Brad Jones (a bassist and producer working with Josh Rouse, Marshall Crenshaw and many others);[5] and the album's co-producers: Roger Moutenot (who's worked with Yo La Tengo and Sleater-Kinney) and Jill Sobule, who co-wrote (and performed on) several songs on the album.