The Aquabats! are a decades-long standing musical institution, who have flirted with Ska, New Wave, Punk Rock, Pop Punk, and Synth-pop stylings across five studio albums, one compilation album, one soundtrack album, two EP's, one live album, and miscellaneous recordings. The Aquabats! are widely know for their comedic personas, in which they're portrayed as crime-fighting superheroes. Their current line-up consists of founding members The MC Bat Commander & Crash McLarson (otherwise, known as Christian Jacobs & Chad Larson,) along with keyboardist/saxophonist Jimmy The Robot AKA James Briggs, drummer Ricky Fitness AKA Richard Falomir, and guitarist Eagle "Bones" Falconhawk AKA Ian Fowles. Jacobs is one of the co-creators of popular live action/puppet educational, musical children's television show, Yo Gabba Gabba!; with The Aquabats! he's produced a number of similarly-minded shows, including The Aquabats! Super Show! and most recently, a crowd-funded web series called The Aquabats! RadVentures! Prior to joining blink-182, drummer Travis Barker was famously a member of The Aquabats! appearing as The Baron von Tito from 1996-98. The MC Bat Commander was recently featured within Taylor Morden's excellent documentary, documentary Pick It Up! Ska In The 90's, wherein he spoke extensively about his decades-long involvement with both The Aquabats! & Yo Gabba Gabba! Earlier this month, The Aquabats! announced the sheer existence of their sixth studio album, Kooky Spooky... in Stereo! their first full-length since 2011's Hi-Five Soup!


So far, The Aquabats! have shared two singles from the as-yet-to-be-released album, "Skeleton Inside!" and "Pajamazon!" Self-described on Bandcamp as an "energetic, eclectic album [that's] prime Aquabats! with all of the variety, quirk, and fist-pumping Rock you can handle!" Coinciding with the current state of the world, amidst this new "normal" that is The COVID-19/Coronavirus Pandenic, The Aquabats! cast The MC Bat Commander Signal out to their stir-crazy fans: "Whoa! Look! It's the #PajamazonChallenge! We're all staying inside in our PJ's, so make the most of it! Post a video of you goofing in your pajamas to our new song, "Pajamazon!" with #PajamazonChallenge and tag @theaquabats and it'll be like we're all hanging out together! Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok... wherever you want! Tell you what, we'll give a SIGNED copy of our new Kooky Spooky vinyl, a Kooky Spooky T-shirt and a Skull Bat patch to our favorite one! PLUS, if you use the hashtag and tag us in your (horizontal) video, you could end up in our upcoming music video! Woo!" Over the weekend, we were treated to the final product, The Aquabats! "Pajamazon!" music video, which features the band, along with a gaggle of PJ-clad fans, and a few familiar faces, including Tony Hawk, Rick Thorne, Drake Bell, Steve Caballero, Steve Jones (Sex Pistols,) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' wailer Dicky Barrett, Paul Frank, Chris Shary, and Lori Herbst. The Aquabats! Kooky Spooky... in Stereo! will become available digitally Saturday, June 20, 2020 on Fearless Records. Plus, The Aquabats! assure, CD, vinyl, and merch bundle pre-orders will ship as soon as this whole mess is over!