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!

Afternoon at Virgin Festival took an exciting turn, as the eighth Circle of Hell heat gave way to a dome of foreboding gray clouds and the constant threat that the sky was about to open up and bury us in a deluge. This would have been a welcome respite from the rest of the weekend's weather, of course.

Spoon frontman Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno are no strangers to the 2007 festival circuit. Having wowed Bonnaroo attendees in June, Spoon are more than ready to take to the stage -- they just issued their sixth album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, last month. Hittin' the road is just part of the deal, yeah?

When Girl Talk's Greg Gillis stopped by the SPIN tent on Sunday (Aug. 5), the black three-piece suit he performed in earlier was aptly replaced by t-shirt, shorts, and, of course, a black Pirates baseball hat.

Brazil's CSS make lousy virgins. I mean, they opened the last leg of Virgin Fest and had the audacity to sex it up so intensely that the North Stage may never recover. Delivering a set of euro trashed electro clash (favorite lyric: "Why must you stand so still?

At around 4 P.M. in Stockholm yesterday, it was a comfortable 73 degrees, but for those gathered at the South Stage to cheer on Swedish three-piece Peter Bjorn and John, sweltering 98 temps raged on -- it's a wonder the three Swedes didn't melt. Appropriately, the Scandinavian vets just seemed cooler than everyone else, rocking under the hot lights with not a hair out of place.

Seminal rockers the Beastie Boys are staying busy on the festival circuit this summer while introducing audiences to the soul-jazz, funk-rooted instrumentals of their seventh album, The Mix-Up.

Vocalist/guitar Joe Sumner, guitarist Seton Daunt, and drummer Pete Wilhoit, the nice guys behind the arena rock riffage of London's Fiction Plane, are currently touring the globe in support of their sophomore studio effort, 2007's Left Side of the Brain.

"Let's pretend it's not noon and jump around like we're fucking idiots," gooftronica auteur Dan Deacon gleefully exclaimed on Sunday (Aug. 5), and the soon-to-be overflowing Dance Tent was happy to comply. Despite the fact that the keyboard that's pretty integral to his brand of electro wasn't working, Deacon thrilled.

As Lollapalooza heats things up in Chi-town for day two, the second annual Virgin Festival is also set to scorch countless fans this weekend. Today (Aug.