New Self Titled Album - "Husbands AKA"

THE TOASTERS @ Metronome!

We're totally psyched to be playing with the legendary ska killers The Toasters on their 30th anniversary tour at Metronome, Sunday 16th, Burlington VT!!

Get your tix HERE !!!!

Music Video & Sweet Moves!

Baby time!

TONIGHT!!

We're playing @ Radio Bean tonight...

The show starts sometime after 9:30 and it'll be better than awesome.

See you there!

New Album Preview!

The masters just came in yesterday.  Here's a preview!

HUSBANDS AKA @ RADIO BEAN FRIDAY 4/1/11 W/ ROUGH FRANCES!!

I wish my job was tilling earth, sowing seeds, and growing veggies on some farm somewhere far away. In the meantime, everybody should come out on Friday to see us play with Rough Frances at Radio Bean. It'll probably begin around 10, but by all means come early. Major fun. This will be our last show for a little while, and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm even putting some new strings on my guitar.

Behold:
Friday 3/18 @ Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington 9pm

Show Friday!

This weekend I bought a sixer of Simpler Times Lager from Trader Joes for $3.99
Totally badass and not a bad tasting (6.2%) lager.


Apparently we're playing this Friday 3/18 at Manhattan Pizza in Burlington. Come on down for some ska & pizza!
-Sean

Exclusive sneak peak at new album art:

alternate title: Baby Devil & tha Flamin' Doggpound Gang

J/K! Seriously though, the new record is going to be great. We're in the mastering stage right now and we have a record release show on APRIL 1st @ The Radio Bean in Burlington VT. We're playing with Rhanaldo Blackman and the Smooth Talkers, and it will be 110% fun.

- Sean

Happy Valentines Day, or whateves.

Ska nostalgia/ regionalism

Greetings internet, Sean here;

We're in the arduous process of getting our next record mixed and mastered. Dr. Christopher Valyou PhD (Dr. V!) is hard at work on the artwork. Come back soon for crucial updates on a what will be very important record for Twenty-Eleven. While you're here don't forget to check out the free music downloads! In the meantime, I've been listening to a lot of my old Ska records:

I found Ska music (or maybe Ska music found me) in 1995 with two kick-butt Boston bands, Steady Earnest and The Mighty Mighty BossTones.

First off, is Steady Earnest's outstanding record Out of Line. This band featured Dan from Bim Skala Bim on vocals and some of the guys from the Allstonians and played up-tempo soulful horn-ey Ska. They sound a bit like Bim, just not as cheesy and lack Vinny's trombone (this is a good thing). Here's a great video from '94 (so many goatees...) with the 1st track off that record, "Off and Running":

They put out a solid ep (Take it, Take it, TAKE IT feat. the awesome songs "Skin it Up"- ("and pass it 'long the way..."- this one's for you, Chris) and "Take you to the Ball") and another full-legth (Dr. Earnest's Nerve Steadying Spirits), both great, but neither as great as Out of Line.

Next up, the BossTones's 1st record Devil's Night Out. What can I say, a major, major influence for my guitar style; Seriously awesome, totally original mash up of American hardcore, heavy metal, punk rock, Jamaican reggae, and 2-Tone Ska- all plaid suits, Doc Marten's, tight goatees, chubby dudes (except Johnny Vegas!), and noise noise noise! Here's a totally cruddy '91 show video featuring one of my favorite songs, "Cowboy Coffee" from their 2nd record More Noise & Other Disturbances:

Obviously these guys from Boston hit it big in the later 90's. These days they're still making records (Guitarist Nate Albert left a coupla records ago), and there is some really great music there. For my money, you can't beat the early stuff so I'd start there if you want to get your mind fucking exploded.

So Cold

Sean here...so our furnace stopped working last night. NPR just told me it is 27 below outside this morning. Nature is so stupid sometimes. We're getting the new record together quickly so keep checking back here. Also, don't forget to check out the completely and totally free downloads while you're here! In the meantime, here is another fun video!

Husbands AKA Recording!!

Sean here...So we've been recording this weekend- couldn't have asked for a better recording experience and am so happy with how it sounds. I'm super psyched to share it with the world!!

Here's some sweet videos:


AND...



As Keith Richards has said about recording in Jamaica in the 80's;

"The idea of separation is the antithesis of rock n roll, which is a bunch of guys in a room making a sound a capturing it. It's the sound they make together, not separated...recording the room... the enthusiasm...the soul. There's no you and me, there's just I and I. So you've broken down the difference between who you are and who I am...We are one. Beautiful."


Great friends, beautiful sounds, totally soulful....
HUSBANDS!!

Daddy's Little Girl from Higher Ground 1/7/11

Thanks to anybody who came to Higher Ground last night to see us and Badfish.  We had a blasty (even though Will McManus came too late) and hope you did too.  Dave from the Smittens took this before they twee'd out in the other room.  

Welcome Internet Surfers!

Happy New Year.  We hope you come see us live in concert this year.  We have practiced many times and we're ready to get rude on your collective faces.  2011 will bring many a things and times including, but not limited to - shows, new albums, people, more shows, Will McManus', and less shows.  Let's kick it off at Higher Ground with Badfish on January 7th.  Boo-yaka-shaw.

<3 Alex and Tyson

Awesome Poster by Chris!