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Move over, APTBS. The title of “loudest band in New York” is yours no more. The newgazers don’t deserve to hold John Zorn and Lou Reed’s cochlear implants, especially since the downtown legends’ll be needing after Tuesday night’s aural carpet-bombing of (Le) Poisson Rouge. Shit, I might need a pair: the former VU front man and the present dean of the New York experimental music scene put concert-goers through a punishing hour of… well, what exactly did they put concertgoers through a punishing hour of? I’m at a bit of a loss here.

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