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By WILL SPITZ | February 22, 2006

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Spring break
Spring rules
Snapple + WFNX = commercial-free
If you were listening to WFNX this past weekend — and, really, why the hell wouldn’t you be? — you probably heard something interesting.
Fruity loops
It used to be, come the first week of the month, you could count on a new Certified Bananas MP3 mixtape showing up on-line, clocking hits of the day (reggaeton, rap, dancehall) alongside the Providence DJ duo’s inimitable blends and remixes.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The dark, sprawling Bones reveals that they have bigger plans for their music than volume and speed.
What “Wallet Girl” did on her summer vacation
When Keaton Kustler-Klein goes back to Arlington High School next Tuesday, the twiggy 14-year-old sophomore will have plenty to say about her summer vacation.
Modest Mouse, buzzing bees
“I think this festival is sponsored by large, stinging insects . . . made by Volkswagen,” quipped Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell.
Techno files
By the time the four-man disco band take the stage at Great Scott, the crowd is so jammed into the Allston venue, you’d swear it was a Saturday night.
Going on sale: July 25, 2008
Ratatat, Jamie Lidell, Street Dogs, Cut Copy and more.
Nights on the town
In last year’s “Circuits” year-end wrap-up, we heralded the reach of Boston out to the world at large. This year, things got pretty radical inside the Hub. We Are Cassette, "Angels We Have Heard on High" (mp3)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Maybe it was the heavy-breathing fog machine conjuring up a pre-smoking-ban NYC, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Orpheum last Friday night made me nostalgic for when the triple-Ys came of age in the early double-0s — before yindies and yupsters and Grups and all that other Park Slopian malarky.
Girls gone wild
Maybe it was a good thing after all that Jeremiah Freed packed up and moved to Los Angeles. Sure, the band broke up, but in the process bassist Matt Cosby met Pete Donovan and managed to drag him back here to Maine.
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