FANS of the Loser’s Lounge might want to see some of the variety show singers doing their own thang. This week there’s ample opportunity.
Owen McCarthy, the Iggy-esque Beck-ensian glam rocker, fronts the Everyothers, a New York band with a new EP, “Blue Sky Down.” They still have the Bowie-touches, but have added a big ’70s rock sound to their hooks.
They’ll swing into action at the Luna Lounge (171 Ludlow St. at Houston, [212] 260-2323) at the end of the month (on Nov. 29), but for now fans can groove with McCarthy, as DJ Owen, as he spins vinyl only at Williamsburgh’s Rain Lounge (216 Bedford Ave. at North Fifth Street, [718] 384-0100) on Wednesdays. McCarthy drops the needle on pop from ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. “I play The Beatles and Stones, but tracks you don’t normally hear,” says McCarthy.
The husky-voiced Joe Hurley fronts Rogue’s March, a Manhattan sextet whose songs drive under the many influences of rock, punk, country, pop, Tex-Mex and drinking songs. At the Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston at Essex Street, [212] 260-4700), Friday.
Singer/songwriter Mary Lee Kortes, also a regular Loser, sings intimate pop songs with her band Mary Lee’s Corvette, which will pull into the Cutting Room (19 W. 24th St. at Fifth Avenue, [212] 691-1900) on Saturday.
Also this week . . .
* TONIGHT: Power-poppin’ rocksters Sloan, a 10-year-old Canadian quartet, have survived the ’90s, grunge and Britney to release a new-century album, “Pretty Together.” Sloan plays its hook-filled rock at the Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St. at Bowery, [212] 533-2111).
* TOMORROW: Indie bands line up to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The Red King, the Churchills and Kitty in the Tree hit the the Mercury Lounge.
* WEDNESDAY: Long Island’s the Scoldees, whose folk-twinged sound rocks pretty, play at the Cutting Room for a Sept. 11-related benefit. These Scoldees don’t need to draw with star power, but they’re bringing in Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling and others for support.
* FRIDAY: You have three nights to catch a sneer and a song from Britain’s Mark E. Smith and the Fall at the Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St. at Church [212] 219-3055), Friday through Sunday.
The Fall rose with the punk rock scene in the late ’70s and hasn’t stopped since, although the lineup has changed.
