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Rolling Stone Music Now

Spin Doctors Confidential: Chris Barron Looks Back on His Band's Ups and Downs

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Spin Doctors have their first album out in 12 years, Face Full of Cake — and it's quite good. Lead singer Chris Barron joins host Brian Hiatt to go deep on the band's Nineties triumphs and mistakes, why he doesn't envy Phish, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.8

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0:45.1

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0:49.4

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0:51.4

I'm Brian Hyatt.

0:52.7

This is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm here with Chris Barron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors, who have their first album out in 12 years. It's called Faceful of Cake. We'll talk about the new music, but also dive back into the 90s and much more. Thanks for being here. I appreciate it. Brian, thank you. Thank you for having me.

1:11.5

It's just rolling stone, bro. It's no joke. The new album, Faceful of Cake, the best compliment I can

1:17.2

pay to it is if it was some new band that I was not familiar with, and I heard it, I would say,

1:23.7

who's this band? They're really good. And I think that is really all you can strive for at this point in your career. Yeah, that's a really great compliment. That's exactly what we're

1:32.5

going for. Band at this stage in our career to make something that sounds fresh enough to where

1:37.8

the guy from Rolling Stone would say that. It makes me feel great. Thank you for saying that. I mean it.

1:42.1

The first single, Still a Gorilla, really took me by surprise because it's got this fire breathing,

1:47.1

fuzz riff, and it's really got a lot of kind of like testosterone in it.

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