All the Queen's Men, a Boston band that is actually three-quarter female, plays the second show in its monthlong residency at the Lizard Lounge tonight, and there's an interesting wrinkle:  The band is using acoustic guitars and a stripped-down drum kit.  This from a group that plays what it calls “rocktronica" - layered hard rock with an electronic pulse and a whole lotta weird, ethereal sounds floating in, around, and about.  So what happens acoustically?  “It's as stripped down as any band can get, but we don't turn into a folk band," says guitarist Catherine Capozzi.  “We keep our intensity, keeping the elements we bring to rocktronica but transferring them to acoustic format with different arrangements.  The advantage for us as a band is it shows that we're not a one-trick pony."  Each of the four Tuesdays is different.  Tonight, they employ guest keyboardist Carol Namkoong, freeing keyboardist/vocalist Christine Zufferey to roam, and they'll play a slew of favorite covers , from Bjork to Bowie to PJ Harvey.  Next week, it's full-on rocktronica, as it is for the final performance, where they'll be joined by the Curvy Baby Dancers.  Capozzi says a fan described the ATQM-plus-Dancers experience as “kinda like being in a strip club but cooler."  Doors at 9pm.  Tickets $7.  Bourbon Princess and the Shelley Winters Project share the bill.  Jim Sullivan

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