The Virgins

The Virgins are a New York City-based post-punk quartet who own more than a few early Elvis Costello and Kinks albums. Their self-titled debut is the soundtrack to wild Saturday nights: making out in the backseat or sweating it out with a couple hundred of your closest friends to your favorite DJ. "Rich Girls" and "She's Expensive" are fun feel-goodies for suitors dropping too much coin on the ladies.

These New York dance rockers are definitely not virgins. Their debut screams
debauchery, with its funk- and disco-spiked odes to oversexed debutantes and every club
kid's favorite meal, "cocaine brunch." Such subject matter has inspired some bad records
over the years, but the Virgins have a knack for songcraft — scrabbling funk verses that
surge into singalong rock choruses — and a charismatic frontman who delivers st... More >