Nick Valensi doesn't like to do a lot of press. "I think this is the first interview that I've done in maybe seven years," he says. "I just got really sick of doing it." But he's decided to get on the phone to discuss his new band CRX (also including keyboardist Richie James Follin, drummer Ralph Alexander, bassist Jon Safley and guitarist Darian Zahedi), who
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