When the sun sets in New York City these days, and the constant flow of perspiration stops just momentarily, what resembles a cool breeze just might roll through hinting at the season ahead.

Not even stolen gear could stop fiery punk luminaries the Stooges from rocking out at this past weekend's Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore. Below, check out video clips of the group, led by the irrepressibly wild Iggy Pop, rocking out to classics "1969" and "Loose."

As we noted in our live review from earlier this week, Bloc Party seems reenergized by their new material, like new single "Mercury." And while that was truly a set highlight during their afternoon romp on Virgin Mobile Festival's South Stage, Silent Alarm favorites carried the day, particularly a rousing version of

As we discovered last weekend at Lollapalooza, the Dell Summer Rocks Dome, part of Dell's face-melting, show-stopping road trip to all the biggest music festivals, is the ideal locale to chill out between shows.

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.