You can lose your loving self on Broadway
You can change your shape of face on Broadway
Signs of being alive — forced to fail or thrive…
I’m growing!
If The Drifters’ original “On Broadway” dreamed of neon salvation, Mary Chicken Soup and Rice’s “Growing” stumbles into its flickering aftermath — a cracked disco ball reflecting too many selves to count. The song warps that mid-century myth of “making it” into something stranger, more existential: what happens when the dream itself becomes performance art? The Broadway of 2025 isn’t a boulevard of stars but an algorithmic funhouse where identity shifts with every click, filter, and reinvention. And yet, beneath the irony, there’s still a pulse — the will to keep growing, however misshapen the form.
Dropping ahead of the West Coast tour (November 4–14), “Growing” is the latest transmission from Que Linda, the debut LP due March 14 via Clearly Records. Directed by Alexander Garrido, the video is a feverish collision of performance and parody — the duo jerking and bouncing in manic unison like glam-rock automatons under strobe-light interrogation. Saturated reds and inky shadows flicker as if a Warhol silkscreen came to life, while the chicken-masked guitarist’s solo turns absurdity into alchemy. It’s both spectacle and exorcism, the mirror ball spinning faster until reflection gives way to revelation.
Musically, the track’s fuzz-drenched guitar riff and tom-heavy percussion land somewhere in the vicinity of a lost Love and Rockets track, or with a Bowie outtake — like “Fame” if a garage-band demon possessed it. There’s even a flash of T-Rex swagger in the guitar’s glitter-grit and the sly vocal inflections, the kind of Marc Bolan purr that can turn a sneer into a spell. The beat punctuates the chaos; vocals shimmer with Eno-style layering and mid-’80s alt-rock reverberation. The lyrical nod to On Broadway threads it all together: the line between dreamer and hustler, sincerity and spectacle, keeps collapsing. The song isn’t a cover — it’s a reincarnation, an identity crisis set to rhythm.
Mary Chicken Soup and Rice is the performance vessel of Matthew Dunehoo — actor, filmmaker, and musical alchemist. Through Mary’s cracked lipstick grin and funhouse persona, Dunehoo channels grief, absurdity, and the strange holiness of endurance. Que Linda was made in memory of his mother Linda, an English teacher and watercolorist who painted the album cover before her passing in 2024. Beneath the camp and cacophony, the record is a séance of sincerity — each track a conversation between the living and the loved, the stage and the soul.
Watch the video for “Growing” below:
Que Linda is out now! Order the album here
Catch Mary Chicken Soup and Rice live on their West Coast tour:
TUE 11/4 — Lancaster, CA @ Transplants Brewing w/ Into Action, the Sympathy of All Things + Mysterywacker
WED 11/5 — Albany, CA @ the Ivy Room
THU 11/6 — Cottage Grove, OR @ Axe & Fiddle
FRI 11/7 — Portland, OR @ the Hallowed Halls w/ Gasp., the Vardaman Ensemble + Shadowhouse
SAT 11/8 — Seattle, WA @ Slim’s Last Chance w/ Hot Hail! + Devilwood
SUN 11/9 — Olympia, WA @ The Crypt w/ Quilli Fin + Dead Pets
MON 11/10 — Seattle, WA @ Recreational Psycho Acoustics Lab w/ Quilli Fin & Bridles
TUE 11/11 — Bend, OR @ Silver Moon Brewing
WED 11/12 — Cave Junction, OR @ The Replay
THU 11/13 — Reno, NV @ Midnight Coffee Roasting w/ Azma Hazard + Generic Bad
FRI 11/14 — Las Vegas, NV @ (TBD)
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