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"Who Was In My Room Last Night," 1993
Dormant since 2002, the Surfers reunited earlier this year for an East Coast tour and are rumored to be working on a new album. At the band's show last month at New York's Webster Hall, Haynes was escorted off the premesis by police after a disagreement with the sound man but was not, as some reports maintained, arrested. Whatever happened, it was hardly the band's first show to inspire the headline "Butthole Surfers concert ends in near riot," and is surely not the last. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. - Chris Gray
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