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the EVERYOTHERS

'We live and die in Brooklyn'

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BIO
Fact: The Everyothers are one of the greatest rock n roll bands on earth. No shit.
Start from scratch: They played in bands before, but who cares? See, this New York City quartet John Melville, Joel B. Cannon, Ben Toro and Owen McCarthy whose self-titled debut album proved that you can make rock n roll in the grand, street-scamp glam sense of the 70s with mashed-in bits of frothy contemporary pop. But you cant call em back-dated. No way, Chief.
Dig this: Everyothers frontman-guitarist Owen McCarthy is sinewy and oddly graceful, his kohl-eyed lan is topped with gene-perfect locks and runway model cheekbones picture an English country gentlemen caught in some Warholian idea of perfected New York decadence. McCarthy is graced with celebrity skin and he should be a star. What else in life is there for him? Probably not much; so whats bad for McCarthy is good for us because the music is better when its creator has little else (all the greats taught us that one). It lifts straight from the bottom of his swollen little heart and shoots from the top of his huge, many-octave vox. Were talkin star, kids. The kind they dont make anymore, like Brian Ferry, like Ian Hunter; shit, like old David whats-his-name, even. Better, hes literate and his songs are peppered with verse and couplets that are flip and sensitive, so they hit on varying levels, they work the imagination. Dont believe us? Just listen.
Joel B. Cannons appropriate bored indifference on stage and his airy, almost relaxed harmony-fat chording pins him down as a guitar hero. And he is.
John Melville's the best rock n roll drummer in New York City. Everybody knows it. Thats cool, but what we like is that he looks like he just crawled out of some Cork City pub, a tome of Eliot tucked into his armpit, hair nowhere near perfect.
Bassist Ben Toro is quiet, of course. But his counterpoint-and-anchor bass runs and outscissored legs bookend nicely with Cannon and the Rock Star.
Kudos: Old Creem magazine writer Jeffrey Morgan often sites the Everyothers in his current writings as if its a given that the whole world knows who they are. Its a cheeky move, almost elitist, but Morgan knows whats what. He uses the Everyothers as a barometer, the standard by which other rock n roll groups are judged. No band ever comes close. Its good thinking and Morgan should know. And so should you. So whatcha gonna do about it? Huh?
Tunes: Pure hitsville, daddy-O. The new Kill Rocks Stars EP, Pink Sticky Lies, is rife with em. Heres whats weird: The songs couldve worked on an early Cheap Trick record and a mid-period Bowie album! So its easy to see that contemporaries like the Strokes aint got nothin on the Everyothers. In fact, if Too Far and Dive With You dont ping-pong between your ears for days than you might just be dead, because rock n roll aint. Not yet, anyway.
- Brian Smith - Music Journalist
Here are some bands the Everyothers have played with:

Ian Hunter, The Darkness, The Stills, Sahara Hotnights, The Dictators, Kill Hannah

The Legendary Shack Shakers, The Bamboo Kids, Morningwood, The Blue Van

The Heartless Bastards, World Inferno Friendship Society, Ours, The Paybacks

The Proles, The Detroit Cobras, The Low Flying Owls, LP, The Makers, The 22's

The Luxury Pushers, The High Strung, The Carlsonics, The Paper Lions, Knife Skills

Kevin Kinney, The Rubber City Rebels, Film School, The Frogs, Army of Me, The M's

I Am the World Trade Center, Dirty On Purpose, The Smithereens, Pete Droge

Xiu Xiu, Bang! Bang!, Chrome Mali, Two Ton Boa, Electrajet, Mishka, Ness

The Sumerians, The Likelihoods, Bona Roba, Vanity Crash, Longwave, The Singles

The Dirty Americans, Apollo Sunshine, Runner and the Thermodynamics

Bishop Allen, Rock & Roll Soldiers, Nethers, An Albatross, Spitafield, Aerial Love Feed

White Light Motorcade, Billy Talent, Tom Clark and the High Action Boys

The A.K.A.'s, The Gossip, Slumber Party, the Numbers, The Dansettes

SSM, The Scorchers, The Sex Slaves, The Choke, The Genders, Honor Among Thieves, Earl Greyhound


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Member Since: 2/1/2004
Band Website: everyothers.com
Band Members:

OWEN McCARTHY - Vocals, Guitar

JOEL B. CANNON - Guitar

BEN TORO - Bass, Vocals

JOHN MELVILLE - Drums


Influences: tons of stuff, the Who, Supergrass, Bowie, Big Star, the Smiths/Morrissey, the Raspberries, the Kinks, Urge Overkill, Nirvana, Iggy Pop/the Stooges, Lou Reed, T-Rex, the Pretenders, Mott the Hoople, the Clash, the Police, Alice in Chains, the Flaming Lips, Otis Redding, Alice Cooper, Slade, The Creation, Patti Smith Group, Psychedellic Furs, the Jam, Pixies, Jeff Buckley, the Zombies, Hendrix, Jellyfish, the Cure, the Buzzcocks, Elliot Smith, the Small Faces, Tom Petty, New York Dolls, the Damned, Cheap Trick, the Chills, the Stones, ELO, Todd Rundgren, the Beatles, thee Headcoats, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan.............
Sounds Like: VILLAGE VOICE - Christgau - Pink Sticky Lies, Kill Rock Stars - Exactly what rock star did they kill to get their lungs on that adaptable swagger - Michael Hutchence?

AP - **** 4 of 5 - "A hard-rockin mix between Mick Ronson-era David Bowie and Van Halen I"

THE NEW YORKER The New York music scene is dominated by monochromatic post-punk sounds, but The Everyothers entertain a different sort of nostalgiafor glam-rock fabulousness.

WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS NYU "They're called the Everyothers and they come from Brooklyn. They play big, melodic, flamboyant rock 'n' roll music that's more infectious than strep throat."

DETROIT METRO TIMES "....and heres something lost on nearly every new band on the planet theres a swanky, rock-star country-gentleman quality to the Everyothers and their songs, that elegantly wasted, bordering-the-foppish élan so pervasive on old Faces and Mott the Hoople records."

CMJ "what you might hope Bowie would sound like today, just plain old rafter-shaking arena blues rock with a flair for drama."

Sundance covering Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing"

Video for - "Ticket Home"

Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Guitar, Bowie, Sundance.........

So as many of you may already know, the Everyothers have been on hiatus for a while. But we've recently gotten together to record a cover version of David Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing" for the movie...
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:28:00 PST

Melville's side project

Our drummer John is branching out while we're taking a hiatus. He's playing with a band called The Child Ballads: http://www.myspace.com/childballad Check their space for upcoming gigs.
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:41:00 PST

Everyothers on Film!!!!

We just did a film directed by Amy Redford (Robert's daughter) starring Saffron Burrows and written by Amos Poe called The Guitar. Not only did we play live on stage with Saffron, we had to act with h...
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST

Everyothers Holiday song on KRS compilation

If you want to listen to the last recording we did together, go to itunes and search the Everyothers and you'll see a version of 2000 Miles (the Pretenders) for the KRS Winter Holiday album. Buy it an...
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:11:00 PST

Interview for Cut Throat Books

The four wise asses answer some questions: http://www.cutthroatbooks.com/theManifestIX.htm..everyothers
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:18:00 PST

Owen Interview and Live band footage - Banned TV from the UK

So when we played the Barfly in Birmingham England, some lovely people came down and interviewed Owen and filmed the show. Go to this link to check it out: http://www.banned-produxionstv.net/Everyothe...
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:37:00 PST

Video on Myspace

we uploaded the Ticket Home video to myspace (as per Sherry's recomendation) and it looks so much better than the youtube clip. I hope you people that were really into the pixelization of that one sti...
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:45:00 PST

Ticket Home Video on Youtube!

Check out our video we did for 'Ticket Home' on youtube.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRyTpSOwb4It was directed by Alex Kane.
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:56:00 PST

New live photos!

Our friend Gina took these pics of us at some of our recent shows in NY: http://ginadee.smugmug.com/.Thanks Gina!!
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:52:00 PST

Owen models for Zoo Magazine editorial

Our man Owen poses for German magazine Zoo. They dedicate a whole issue to the film 'The Hunger'. Owen is photographed with actress Chloe Sevigny in some outrageous victorian mansion in Manhattan. The...
Posted by the EVERYOTHERS on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:13:00 PST