2008 was a pretty fine year. we made a record with our main man Ben Carey and put it out all by ourselves with the wonderful mastering help of Sir Jesse Marks. We played a lot of shows. Met lots of wonderful people. Copped a Thin Lizzy Audio Cassette Tape in Winona, Minnesoata. Learned that its pronounced winona not Whynona. Saw a lot of really great music at the Dakota, saw some of the best music Ive ever seen at teh Deep Blues Festival in july. learned a lot of stuff. forgot about a lot of stuff. Ate alright. drank real nice. danced a little and down the line some people seen fit to write stuff about us. Heres some recent stuff that people have said:

CITY ON THE MAKE, 1,000,000

The new EP by City on the Make accomplishes more than most local full-length albums released this year do, combining the grit and swagger of a blues band with the ferocity of lead singer Mike Massey's frenetic growl and the flippant punk energy of his backup gang/band. And on top of it all, they know how to construct a solid pop hook: A revisitation of their single "Chicks on Bikes" immediately floods the brain with memories of summer, melting away the doldrums of these cold winter days with the shimmer of a sunny guitar riff and the chorus, "This has been a hot, hot summer in my life/Chicks on, chicks on, chicks on bikes." —Andrea Swensson (CITY PAGES)

from http://www.citypages.com/2008-12-17/news/top-10-local-albums-of-the-year/1

7. City on the Make - "$1,000,000"
Poetic, raw outsider rock from a blues band who's lead singer and songwriter combines Springsteen's passion with Joe Cocker's convulsive stage presence.
-Chris Roberts, Host of the Local Show 89.3 the Current

from http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/features/specials/top89/stafftopten.shtml

9.City On the Make - $1,000,000 EP
"Chicks on, chicks on, chicks on bikes" was my anthem for the summer as my girlfriends and I sang it repeatedly biking around the city. Lead poet Mike Massey is as fun to watch as he is to listen to, and with new bionic knees to keep him bouncing, I can't wait for the new material that's promised to come soon. -Staciann
from cakein15.com

A feature from Chris R at Star Tribune.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/35145614.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnOiP3UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU

And theres more too, which completely blows our collective mind.

Thank you to everybody who has come out to shows, and supported us along the way in any manner. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We hope to see you all very soon. Have a bangin new year.

-City on the Make

Also, you can listen to a number of our shows on Archive.org. its free, but be careful, there some pretty drunken sloppy stuff on there. Heres the most recent:
http://www.archive.org/details/cotm2008-11-29.mbho.flac16

Thank you to Chris Riemenschneider for the nice write up this weekend in Strib and Vita.mn. Take a look here.
Star Tribune Article.

Also, I wanted to point out that we posed on purpose to resemble a portrait of one of our favorite rag tag groups, not that we condone making light of the POW experience or anything, but just that Hogan's Heroes has really got us through thick and thin in the past. It was a conceptual effort, to really pay homage to our influences.

Some of our shows are available for listen/ download on archive.org.

Here is a link the most recent show we played in Minneapolis. Shit was fun. Thank you to John, the Solid Dude Under the Mic Stand.

Look out for Spiderman, he will hurt you.

www.archive.org/details/cotm2008-09-12.mbho.flac16

Lissssssssssssssssssten

Thank you Andrea for the support and the review. Thank you to everyone at the Varsity last week and especially to Stacy for putting things together like a boss.

Below is a link to a very positive and appreciated concert review, as well as a link to some bit torrent downloads of the Varsity show, as well as a couple of other ones from this rehabilitating spring of 2008.

Concert Review by Andrea Myers on the City Pages Culture to Go Blog:

http://blogs. citypages. com/ctg/2008/05/howling_wolves. phpmore

Bit Torrent Downloads of the Varsity Show (as well as some others) and be sure to check out all of his other taped shows. These are fair game free music, approved of and encouraged for downloading by the artists. Thanks John, we appreciate it:

http://www. emptystapes. blogspot. com/

And remember, we are all gonna lose our shit on June 7th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_Longshore_Strike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_%28American_businessman%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried-brain_sandwich

Well. Now you know.