The Aquabats! Share "Pajamazon!" Music Video with Famous Friends & PJ-clad Fans from Kooky Spooky... in Stereo! (Fearless Records)

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!

"Let Me Shine for You:" Lindsay Lohan for Playboy (Winter 2011-12 Leak)

Lindsay Lohan essentially embodies exactly "What NOT to Do In Hollywood :" Fame, fortune, success... sex, drugs & Rock "N" Roll . Within a fairly short period of time, Lohan somehow managed to obtain a plentiful helping of POWER @ a very young age. This gradual rise-downfall was captured on film; Between 1998-2010, she portrayed a wide array of roles across the silver screen in movies including: Mean Girls, Bobby , Herbie Fully Loaded , Georgia Rule, Machete , and Freaky Friday . Between rapid-paced film shoots, Lindsay Lohan also found time to record 2 Pop Rock albums for Casablanca , Speak (2004) and A Litter More Personal-Raw (2005). Needless to say, Lindsay Lohan has gotten roped up in a lot of troubles and woes with the law over the last 3-5 years... a vicious cycle of drugs, arrest, court, rehab, "daddy issues," jail time [Repeat]. That's the pure basics of it - But Google that shit for additional info, if necessary. Towards the end of...

[W]reckless, Topless American Youth: Lana del Rey - "Born 2 Die" (Britney Spears Birthday 30)

Lana del Rey [Lizzy Grant] effectively became 2011's "It Girl" with the release of her phenomenal debut single, "Video Games" (Stranger) . Like many struggling singer-songwriters, Grant has been signed, dropped, and significantly changed her public image since bursting onto the scene (2009). With that said, it can be assumed that Lana del Rey has collected just as many "haters" as she has avid supporters. To be perfectly honest, the only other artist I can think of that made this much commotion... garnered so much wide-spread buzz/hate and critical acclaim -- right out of the gates -- with just one track is Britney Spears . And maybe in this post- Mike musical era, that's the true synthesis of Pop Culture: Britney Lynn Spears . After months of repeated teasing and speculation, Lana del Rey 's major label debut, Born 2 Die will [finally] be released this coming Jan. 30-31, 2012. Pitchfork reports that it will feature "Off to The Ra...

Liberty Bell Cracked In 1/2: Ween - "Freedom of '76" (Gene Ween's Final Send-Off)

Chocolate & Cheese (1994) was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. I was in some sort of BMG Music Club , where you'd buy 5 CD's and then get 10 for "FREE." It was all sent through mail order and you picked the titles from some special booklet. I'm almost positive that Chocolate & Cheese's side boob-baring album cover was what initially drew me in... mind you, I was 12-15 and the zany Ween logo/middle finger CD graphic really didn't hurt either. Honestly, I forget how I really felt about it @ the time, but a few years later, my older cousin Josh told me that Ween were this BIG college "jam band." CKY did some sort pf 93.3 radio takeover to promote their new album and played "Freedom of '76" late that night on air. Needless to say, I re-visited Chocolate & Cheese @ about 20-something this go 'round and I fucking loved it! Ween were really weird, yet talented... almost too talented. I can vaguel...

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