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8 new records that will give Boston rock a charge

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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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