With Le Tigre on hiatus, the DJ JD Samson needed another outlet for her ferocious energy and ambitionthus, MEN, a dance-pop collective of Samson plus a few friends, including fellow Le Tigre member Johanna Fateman. Like Le Tigre, MEN is a band with a mission. Samson infuses wild disco beats with lyrics that serve as calls to actionits bluntly all about anti-war stances, gender equality, and LGBT rights. On MENs debut album, last months Talk About Body, Credit Card Babie$ addresses the trials that gay couples go through to have a child, while Who I Am To Feel So Free laments, On our way stopped and frisked/ Government asks are you a fucking risk/ On the corner we got booked/ Paper says its because of the look. Its dance music with some heavy-hitting points to make. With Lovers, Secret Shoppers. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Mon., March 21, 8 p.m., 2011
