The Witzard

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...

Pick It Up! Ska In The 90's , which is being billed as "the definitive Third Wave "Ska-cumentary'" (AKA a Ska documentary) is now available on DVD, Blu-Ray, digital, etc. Whether they're presently aware of it or not, anyone from about the age of about 28-45 should have either vague or vivid memories of Ska/Punk in the 1990's; most people are familiar with either No Doubt , Less Than Jake, The Mighty Might Bosstones , Reel Big Fish, or Rancid/Operation Ivy . 90's Ska is commonly known as Third Wave Ska, following in the traditions of both First Wave Jamaican and British Two-tone/2 Tone Ska through the 80's. For me, personally, I would say one of my earliest memories of Ska was hearing Goldfinger 's "Superman" on the in-game soundtrack for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (1999) which, also, included selections form Dead Kennedys , Primus, Suicidal Tendencies , The Suicide Machines, and The Vandals . Pick It Up! was directed/produced by ...