After sitting down to speak with The Virgins, it was almost easy to see how they played their first show in front of eight friends in Brooklyn and their third show with Patti Smith and Sonic Youth before a crowd of 3,000 in Paris. Dizzyingly precocious with their sweetly silly, helter-skelter banter and unaffected zeal, they have made a meteori...

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You could call the CMJ Music Marathon a New York music journalist’s wet dream. A music festival almost encyclopedic in scope held by the College Music Journal (CMJ), it saturates five days and about 75 venues with some of the best indie, folk, thrash, noise rock, art rock, hip-hop, synth-pop, and the rest of the gamut in between.

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