This post-Christmas weekend seems light on the concert front, though ska-punk veterans the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (above) rev up House of Blues with their annual Hometown Throwdown on Saturday (with fellow local icons the Neighborhoods and the Upper Crust), Sunday (with the Real Kids and the Queers) and Monday, with the Outlets and Stranglehold. There’s also a Saturday reunion of soul-funk group SuperHoney at Johnny D’s.

However, New Year’s Eve also looms just around the corner on Thursday night with several diverse live-music highlights. Professional party animal Andrew W.K. throws down at the Paradise Rock Club, performing his 2001 debut I Get Wet in its entirety, with top-shelf local openers Tigerman WOAH and Vundabar. Cuisine en Locale’s Once Lounge also hosts a sweeping New Year’s Eve celebration with Eastern European punk-funk ensemble the Somerville Symphony Orkestar plus notable guests Ruby Rose Fox, Cask Mouse and Cactus Attack.

Roots-reggae stalwarts John Brown’s Body stir it up at the Sinclair, or add some accordion to the mix when roots-rockers the Felice Brothers play the Brighton Music Hall. Evocative indie-pop outfit Hallelujah the Hills animates Great Scott with garage-rockers Barbazons, while venerable singer-songwriter Ellis Paul hosts his annual New Year’s Eve stand at folk bastion Club Passim. Out of town, rising jam-rockers Dopapod groove at the Palladium in Worcester, Roomful of Blues keep the blues alive at the Bull Run in Shirley, and the country-rooted Girls, Guns and Glory toast Hank Williams at the Riverwalk Roasters Café up in Nashua, N.H.