Panic! At the Disco emerged from their Las Vegas studio to play Virgin Fest, and, of course, to roll through Spin‘s tent backstage at Baltimore’s Virgin Festival (Aug. 5) for a chat with Spin‘s Steve Kandell following their midday performance. Uncharacteristically dressed down in t-shirts, flip-flops, and jeans, the boys of Panic! divulged details about writing their much-anticipated follow up to 2005’s debut A Fever Your Can’t Sweat Out, their newfound musical influences — “the classics,” including the Beatles and the Band, the latter of whom they covered in their set — and their performance of two new tunes.
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