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By MICHAEL MAROTTA | February 28, 2012

MOUNT PERU | Middle East Upstairs | March 31 | With Mount Peru in mind, it was blog-bandits Boston Band Crush who coined the genre "Cosmic Americana." Last year's layered debut My Sweetheart the Destroyer toyed with intimacy and grandeur, taking dusty-trail folk on a comet ride through the galaxy. | 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge | $10 | mideastclub.com

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A toothsome classical concert season
This past winter, gossip seems to have risen to the surface of our musical life like the foam on chicken soup.
The blockbusters bloom early in 2012
In keeping with the winter that never was, summer comes early this year — on movie screens, at least, if not meteorologically — with the big blockbusters that usually wait until Memorial Day now appearing in March.
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New discs, new shows
This season is chock full of jazz goodies.
A toothsome classical concert season
This past winter, gossip seems to have risen to the surface of our musical life like the foam on chicken soup.
The blockbusters bloom early in 2012
In keeping with the winter that never was, summer comes early this year — on movie screens, at least, if not meteorologically — with the big blockbusters that usually wait until Memorial Day now appearing in March.
Portraiture dominates Boston gallery exhibits this spring
"I figured," Alex Katz said of his paintings of his wife Ada in 1969, "well, if I get Ada right, if you only get one person right— if you get a woman or a man right — it's universal."
Spring theater offerings
Boston Playwrights' Theatre closes out its winter season with DEPORTED / A DREAM PLAY (March 8–April 1; bu.edu/bpt).
Authors strut their stuff
Literary gossip columnists, political poets, cranky lefties, and singing novelists are just some of the characters traipsing through Boston this spring to promote their new books.
Deflecting feedback with the Dirty Dishes
As we're all well aware by now, the window of musical-temporal referencing has sped up at an alarming rate.
Photos: Stephie Coplan and The Pedestrians at The Lizard Lounge
Stephie Coplan and The Pedestrians played The Lizard Lounge on Saturday, February 18, 2012.
Deciphering beauty in the Life and Times
You're standing at the edge of a vast canyon.
The Big Hurt: This week in image problems
Poor Biebs. He just wants to be the wholesome kid next door, but with his 18th birthday creeping up, America's youth-stealing culture just can't wait to liquor him up and lay him.
Teddy Thompson becomes his own man
Sometimes a writer winces at the thought of having to ask the obvious but necessary question. So I'm grateful to Teddy Thompson for answering before I can even ask.
Photos: Boston Symphony Orchestra & Claremont Trio
The Claremont Trio inaugurated the Gardner Museum’s new Calderwood Hall, and John Harbison's Symphony No. 6 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of David Zinman.
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Live performance has remained fairly consistent since music became a thing: the performer is the focal point, and the audience is amassed around or in front of the person or group responsible for creating the sounds.

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Boston's going through an identity crisis; never has the city's music scene been so diverse, its sonic landscape so eclectic.

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When Stephie Coplan was 14 years old, the empty pages in her first songwriting book were as much an escape as they were a creative outlet.

OUT: THE EMERGENCE OF ANIMAL TALK | February 01, 2012
Last Thursday night in Cambridge, the common act of covering Joy Division suddenly went from timeless to timely.

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