Chino Moreno

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Chino Moreno is the lead singer of Deftones, the Sacramento band experiencing a resurgence as a new generation discovers their ’90s hits on social media. This year, Deftones have been selling out arenas while putting the finishing touches on their latest album, Private Music.

During the recording sessions, guitarist Stephen [Stef-in] Carpenter’s health took a turn when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Chino stepped in to handle more of the guitar parts, approaching the album with newfound clarity after getting sober.

On today’s episode, Leah Rose talks with Chino about the band’s early days living with their late bassist, Chi Cheng. He reflects on the story behind the Around the Fur album cover and shares his post-show ritual—which often includes winding down with rom-coms in his tour bus bunk.

You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Deftones songs HERE.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Chino Moreno is the lead singer of Deftones, the Sacramento band experiencing resurgence as a new generation discovers their 90s hits on social media.
0:20.0	This year, Deftones have been selling out arenas while putting the finishing touches
0:24.2	on their latest album, Private Music.
0:27.1	During the recording sessions, guitarist Stefan Carpenter's health took a turn when he was diagnosed
0:31.3	with type 2 diabetes.
0:33.2	Chino stepped in to handle more of the guitar parts, approaching the album with newfound clarity after getting sober.
0:39.4	On today's episode, Leah Rose talks with Chino about the band's early days, living with their late bassist, Chi Chang.
0:45.2	He reflects on the story of their Around the Fur album cover and shares his post-show ritual, which often includes winding down with rom-coms and his tour bus bunk.
0:56.4	This is Broken Record.
0:58.5	Real musicians, real conversations.
1:03.6	This is an I-Heart podcast.
1:08.3	Malcolm Gladwell here.
1:09.7	This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of
1:12.7	1988 to a town in northwest Alabama, where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.
1:18.5	The amount of damage this man did is incalculable. It's still damaging all of us.
1:23.5	Listen to Revisionous History, The Alabama Murders, Anywhere You Get Podcasts.
1:27.9	Binge the entire seven-episode series early and ad-free with a Pushkin Plus subscription.
1:33.0	Head to the revisionist history show page on Apple Podcasts or pushkin.fm slash plus to sign up.
1:39.7	Here's Leo Rose with Chino Moreno.
1:42.8	I was just listening to Private Music, and I was curious, like, the album starts so hard, so fast.
1:49.5	It's got, like, that sludgy riff right off the top.
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