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Mint 400 Records

North Jersey Indie Rock Record Label, Est. 2007 Visit our webpage for a full list of bands

01/05/2026

This Friday drop their first EP (give them a follow on IG)

01/04/2026

Our first monthly show of the year kicks off on 1/22/23 with 8pm Free

01/03/2026

Read more about and their tribute to drummer Andy Applegate () on . A fundraiser for to raise money to put instruments in the hands of students in Andy’s memory.

01/03/2026

AVAILABLE 1/3/2026 ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION IN MEMORY OF ANDY APPLEGATE.

Andy Applegate was my friend and drummer of my band Fairmont from 2003 until he had health problems later in his life. Today would have been Andy’s 44th birthday. Andy played hundreds of shows with Fairmont all over the United States and although he was dealing with many serious issues related to his kidney the whole time, he never let it slow him down. Andy loved Guided By Voices, buying records and playing drums more than any person I’ve ever met. We wrote this song as we celebrate the life of our dear friend Andy and as well are offering merchandise with this simple mantra “Buy More Records”. All funds raised will be donated to the Asbury Park Music Foundation to put instruments in the hands of students. Andy Applegate was a very special man that touched the lives of everyone that knew him and we hope in some small way this honors his memory for years to come.

For the song, we are asking a donation of $2 or more on Bandcamp and for the merchandise the prices are listed on Everpress . The merchandise will be on sale for a limited time, 30 days only and it will ship at the end of the 30 days.

Merchandise
https://everpress.com/apmf-fundraiser

Bandcamp
https://mint400records.bandcamp.com/album/buy-more-records

12/29/2025

Thanks for naming “Slow Motion Night” and “American Dream” top music of 2025!

12/26/2025

Available today

12/22/2025

This Friday a post Xmas gift from

12/20/2025

12/19/2025

Available today new LP

12/15/2025

This week drop a live album featuring alternate live versions of their debut album!

12/15/2025

This week drops a brand new release “Merry Cherry Cola”

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Who is Mint 400 Records?

Well if you got the time and really want to know: http://www.jerseybeat.com/mint400.html , The shorter story is below:

Hi, my name is Neil Sabatino and I started this record label out of my apartment back in 2007. I had been in bands for many years and dealt with all sizes and kinds of record labels. I started the label at first because my own band needed a label to release all of our material under. At the time Fairmont (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_(band)) had about 7 releases that were all released under various labels and none of which existed anymore. So we were able to get ourselves a digital distro deal and were considered a label because we had so many releases under our belts.

I had always wanted to start a label but in the times before everything went digital there was too much money that had to be invested to get physical products out to a store. As well the model for physical record distribution was not made for small bands and labels to succeed. I had learned in previous years that you could sell a thousand CD's or more and have your distributor turn around and say we have no money for you. The model I wanted to set up was for bands to be able to be as prolific as possible but not have to pay close to anything to get their records out. That was how my first signings happened. I was new to producing at the time but was able to help a local band called Theodore Grimm record some of their first EP's for under a few hundred dollars and get them out to the world.

I had been around the block and knew that most bands spend more and more on record after record. I myself had gone from humble recordings that cost me 100-700$ for a full length album to then spending well over 5,000$ a record and knew that if I wished to make records for years to come that this was not sustainable. What I did next was slowly over the course of the next few years was build my own studio specifically for the purpose of recording records for the bands on my record label.

My philosphy on records is that good songwriters make good records and little else matters. I didn't want to make my label revolve around anything but music and I wanted to provide a way for the artists I signed to record as much as possible and basically say screw all of the other bu****it that has become the music industry. This label is about music. Through keeping overhead costs down we are able to make a ton of records with a ton of bands and get them out to radio and out for licensing and that is what we are about. What we do have are amazing bands that write amazing records.

Mint 400 is about songwriters and great musicians making records in their bedrooms or a basement, records with meaning. Records that are made most of the time for free or at very little cost, records that have taken months to make. The only thing we pursue for our labels music are things that get our records heard such as radio, licensing and digital distro. Mint 400 is about the cool creative endeavors. We exist outside the norm of the music industry and we hope that our business model becomes the norm of the future. Where labels concern themselves only with putting out good music that is accessible, cheap and for the fans.

Mint 400 has grown since 2007 from a label that was my band Fairmont and my cousins band Theodore Grimm, to become a label that houses a roster of close to 100 artists and over 300 releases. With each artist we try to become for them whatever they need us to be. Whether they need a record produced, engineered, mixed and mastered, album artwork, digital distro, PR, a website, or tour help. We try to do it all without any cost to the artist. Mint 400 is record label that is built for creative bands concerned with putting out many records for years to come and really honing their craft.

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