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MP3 City on the Make - $1,000,000
5 MP3 Songs in this album (19:18) !
Related styles: ROCK: Rock & Roll, BLUES: Blues-Rock
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"A band that could fit in next weekend''s Best New Bands of 2007 showcase in the First Ave mainroom, City on the Make instead gets its own headlining gig in the Entry this weekend. At least it''ll allow the young quartet enough time to fully unfurl its musical freak flag, as heard on the recent debut album "In the Name of Progress." The disc is full of high-energy punk-rock blues stomps that are somehow danceable, laughable and adorable all at once. Imagine Craig Finn covering Muddy Waters, backed by LCD Soundsystem, or at least something that unconventional."
-Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, January 2008
Ever wonder what a really good blues record would sound like if it were assaulted with a tire iron and had acid splashed in its eyes? Right, not many people ever think about things like that, but City on the Make seemed to be thinking about that question constantly on last year''s debut, In the Name of Progress. Their songs are all blues songs at their core, but they take weird, feedback-infused detours, and though sometimes lead singer Mike Massey''s baby leaves him, it''s for a robot not a new place to dwell. Massey''s dark, descriptive lyrics are full of this kind of off-kilter self-loathing, but the heartbreak is tempered by revenge or exacerbated by self-destruction; he''s not one to suffer betrayal with quiet grace. He speeds aimlessly down I-94 both in search of and trying to escape what is essentially nothing; he plays a two-bit hood named Angelo and sometimes suffers from lycanthropy. City on the Make are celebrating the release of their new EP, $1,000,000, which is full of the same kind of twisted, gritty, inside-out blues riffs and richly detailed stories about fringe dwellers at the edge of their sanity, like a Raymond Chandler novel come to life.
—Pat O''Brien, City Pages, June 2008
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