2010 Citybeat Sampler

Once in California, I started to look around the music scene. One of the local magazines, San Diego Citybeat, ran an annual local music review issue, so I decided to make a submission. I selected three songs that had elicited favorable responses in people:

  • Eyeball Skeleton


  • Surface Tension


  • S.O.B.
The March 10, 2010 issue had the following, rather odd review. I think a lot of people find my music overtly serious in its experimental pretensions, but I've always felt I put a lot of humor in there if you know where to look. This guy picked up on that: the disc started with a song written by two school kids and finished with...well, he says it all below.



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Rick Hines
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Some Stan Ridgway, a pinch of Charlie Hunter and a whole lot of shit that I can't tell if it's supposed to be serious or is coming from Weird Al's stoner cousin. But I'm always down with 11-minute, drug-induced, vulgarity-filled, space jam/hate letters to ex-friends. www.ricks-studio.com.

- Scott McDonald

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