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As alluded to in my recent piece about Chris Barron, frontman for ’90s jam band the Spin Doctors, the Summer 2026 episode of the ECV Zine will be a collection of art, interviews, and essays looking at the career of the band and timed to the 35th anniversary of Pocket Full of Kryptonite, their first studio album.

There are a number of contributors lined up, and I’ll have more specific information on that fairly soon, but I can promise that Daniel from the Spin Doctors Archive, the most exhaustive Spin Doctors resource on the internet, is involved.

There are some names you’ll probably recognize, too, but I don’t like to tease contributors’ involvement until they’ve actually given me their piece, been paid, or ideally both.

The zine, which looks to be about 120 pages long, will be available to buy digitally and order in paperback in August.

There’s also a way any fan who wants to take part can contribute: I need a title.

Even though this is technically part of the ECVZine lineup of short books, it will (like the other ECVZine projects) have its own title. The debut zine, about James Gunn’s 2025 Superman movie, was called Everyone You’ve Ever Met is Beautiful, a line from the film’s most thematically resonant scene. An upcoming celebration of 25 years of Josie and the Pussycats will be called Punk Rock Prom Queens. And for the Spin Doctors project? Well…nothing yet. I have a few ideas, but nothing that leapt off the page at me.

So, here’s the proposal: you can send an email to spindoctors[at]emeraldcityvideo[dot]com, and tell me what you think the title of the Spin Doctors issue of ECVZine should be. In all likelihood, it should be a quote from one of their songs, but if there’s a better idea (such as a mash-up, allusion, or joke that would be recognizable as a Spin Doctors reference) that would probably work, too. Avoid using actual song or album titles; those have all been considered and discounted, so it’s unlikely you’ll win with that.

If I choose your title, I’ll give you a choice of two prizes: either a Cameo by one of the Spin Doctors (Chris Barron and Aaron Comess are both on that platform) or a full set of Spin Doctors studio albums on CD (that’s seven total albums: Pocket Full of Kryptonite, Turn it Upside Down, You’ve Got to Believe in Something, Here Comes the Bride, Nice Talking to Me, If the River Was Whiskey, and Face Full of Cake). You’ll also get a paperback copy of the zine, which I’ll sign if you want that for some reason.

If more than one person suggests the same title, the “grand prize” will go to the first person to submit it, and every other person who makes the suggestion will get some Spin Doctors-themed prize that I’ll decide based on how many people need a prize.

Updates coming soon. If you want to get yourself a copy of Everyone You’ve Ever Met is Beautiful or other ECV Analog projects, you can use my Ko-Fi or JosieBook.com.