Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Checkered Past

Oi! Don’t call them Fourth Wave. Like any genre, ska music has experienced noticeable ebbs and flows in popularity. But just because it’s waned doesn’t mean it’s gone. Exhibit A: Husbands AKA. The quintet has roots in each of ska’s supposed three waves. From Jamaican rock-steady to Two Tone to the more recent punk-infused incarnations, Burlington’s reigning rude boys deliver a high-octane offbeat assault as authentic as it is audacious. Pick it up this Saturday as the band stomps through Winooski’s Monkey House with local pop-punk darlings In Memory of Pluto, Boston’s Clash-acolytes Have Nots and Jersey indie-popsters Little Lungs.