Mike Chick of the Asbury Park two-piece Yawn Mower has released a solo double single, “Sleep Walking” and “Call Up the Doctor,” on North Jersey-based Mint 400 Records. PHOTO BY RICHIE BROWN
Jersey Shore indie music scene veteran Mike Chick records for North Jersey-based Mint 400 Records as both a member of the eccentrically edgy Asbury Park two-piece Yawn Mower and as a solo artist. The latter act has been particularly busy of late releasing the “Beach Wolff” double single this summer backed by his pals in Asbury’s GayGuyStraightGuy and Wet Brain. Mike now follows that with another double single, “Call Up the Doctor” and “Sleep Walking,” which is the Makin Waves Song of the Week and can be enjoyed here:
As the Makin Waves Song of the Week, "Sleep Walking" can be heard 5 and 11 a.m., 5 p.m. and midnight through Thursday at ThePenguinRocks.com, as well as 6:45 p.m. on its “Radio Jersey” show.
Both new tunes are raw, garagey, yet ambient tracks inspired and stitched together by dreams and home recorded on a four-track cassette using drum machines,acetone organ, and hollow-body fuzz bass, Mike said. Additional recording was handled by William Bourke and mixing completed by Patrick Noon at eightsixteen studios.
The results will make you want to both dance and pull the covers over your head.
Mike said he plans to release more Mint 400 solo music in 2021. In the meantime, here’s “Call Up the Doctor,” the video for the “Beach Wolff” tune “Where Did You Go?,” tracks from his 2019 Mint EP, “More Sh*t To End Up In A Landfill II”, and some yummy Yawn Mower clips:
Bob Makin is a reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK and the former managing editor of The Aquarian Weekly, which launched this column in 1988. Contact him via email and like Makin Waves on Facebook.
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Jason Robert Brown is a four-time Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World, 13, The Bridges of Madison County, Honeymoon In Vegas and The Connector, has performed as a soloist or with his band in venues around the world, including sold-out shows at the London Palladium and Carnegie Hall. His albums as a singer-songwriter include Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes and How We React and How We Recover on Ghostlight, and Coming From Inside the House and Live In Concert with Stephen Sondheim on Concord.
With Special Guest Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe. Tony Award-nominated actress Betsy Wolfe is currently starring as Audrey in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, following her recent Broadway run as Madeline Ashton in the hit musical Death Becomes Her. She previously originated the title role in Joy, the new musical inspired by inventor Joy Mangano, and earned a 2023 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her celebrated performance as Anne Hathaway in & Juliet. Other Broadway credits include starring as Jenna in Waitress, Cordelia in the acclaimed revival of Falsettos, Bullets Over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Everyday Rapture, and 110 in the Shade, as well as her critically acclaimed performance as Cathy in the Off-Broadway revival of The Last Five Years. Wolfe made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Fledermaus and has appeared as a guest artist with more than 65 symphony, pops, and philharmonic orchestras worldwide, including the New York Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestra, with performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her screen credits include First One In, Estella Scrooge, CBS’s Instinct, and the film adaptation of The Last Five Years. Wolfe is also the co-founder of BroadwayEvolved, the acclaimed musical theatre training program she launched in 2018 to train and mentor the next generation of theatre artists.
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