If you've ever crossed paths with Men of Porn mastermind Tim Moss, you know he looks like a fucking metal wizard and plays like Lucifer. The towering, long-haired, long-bearded Bay Area resident once described for me the pleasure he took in performing live "D sets" – one song tortured to its last nerve for 40 minutes – and he christened the covers he recorded of Motörhead's "Sister" for Porn's Experiments in Feedback EP "Valium Mix" and "Nod Mix." This is a man skilled in compacting your skull like the trash collector, rattling gray matter with seriously psychedelic sludge and repetitive riffs thick enough to abbreviate your lung capacity. On Wine, Women, and Song ..., Moss teams up with bassist Billy Anderson and Melvins drummer Dale Crover to perform black-lit magic. The mostly instrumental songs throb like phantom limbs, with Moss's droning guitar doom cascading over a sinister rhythm section that could crack concrete. When Moss does deem a track worthy of vocals, he spews a gravelly bile about narcotics, neurosis, and nasty habits. But otherwise it's a dirgy Sabbath-Melvins bath where even the cleanest-sounding song – the 15-minute, five-part "Five Books of the Aeneas" – sounds hatched from Pink Floyd's Meddle-ing acid flashbacks. Men of Porn play Fri/17, Elbo Room, S.F. (415) 552-7788. (Jennifer Maerz)

DJ Adnan and Amit Shoham, Jay Tripwire
Stop War Remixes (Tarantic)

The idea of a tribal-house protest track may seem silly, pretentious, and awkward, but DJ Adnan and Amit Shoham's remix of Adnan's original track "Stop War" is a success. The 12-inch single glides along the boundary between catchy and chill, high-energy and mellow. Soft synth lines and long, dubby effects hover over loops of live percussion and a techy metallic beat. The deep, rolling bass line pulls listeners along. Through a spaced-out echo chamber, a woman's voice requests, "Peace for all mankind," and Mumia Abu-Jamal flatly says, "Stop war." Jay Tripwire's remix is a bouncy acid growler perfect for basement parties at peak hour. Characteristic of the Tripwire sound, bubbling synthesizers, buzzing bass lines, and up-front beats intertwine in steady, undulating groove. Abu-Jamal's voice makes another appearance, rhetorically asking, "You wanna stop war?" Although these sparse vocal snippets are the songs' only political indicators, and they may sound no different from the fluffy, pro-love samples normally used in dance tracks, there's more to the message: all proceeds from sales of Stop War Remixes go to the Middle East Children's Alliance, a nongovernmental organization Palestinian-born Adnan and Israeli Shoham passionately support. (Paul Smith)

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