In Brief

* * * Swans, “White Light From the Mouth of Infinity,” Young God. There are guests galore (drummer Anton Fier and others from the New York art-rock scene), and the painful pounding of Swans’ mid-’80s beginnings is long gone. But it’s still Michael Gira’s obsessive show, as his search for heaven and hell--in both mind and body--continues on its fascinating, sometimes harrowing way.

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