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Turning up the volume

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Singer-guitarist Carrie McDonough and her MIT band Fortran battle it out at Tommy Doyle's last week, part of Veritas's college battle of the bands. (Travis Dove for the Boston Globe)

By Jonathan Perry

Globe Correspondent / February 27, 2009

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CAMBRIDGE - Pesticide Red, a thrash-punk band from MIT, is barely into its first song when the college kids crowding the stage start slam-dancing. What's most surprising isn't the instant mosh pit at the front of the room upstairs at Tommy Doyle's, the Harvard Square watering hole at the site of the old Cambridge House of Blues. It's that members ... (Full article: 1107 words)