Cobra Starship’s video for the shiny “Good Girls Go Bad” takes place in a casino underneath a deli that adds extra lettuce to the sandwiches ordered by those lucky enough to pass through the deli counter dude/doorman. I’m sure there is a venue that operates exactly under this concept somewhere in the lower reaches of Manhattan, although I’m kind of not in the mood to try thousands of bad sandwiches in order to suss out just where it might be. Also I still like this song a lot! (Apologies to the international readers looking at this who aren’t able to can’t see this–the MTV embed is the only available copy of the video just now.) [Friends or Enemies]
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Cobra Starship And Leighton Meester Take A Number And Run With It
Conspiracy Theories
Certainly I’m not the only person who heard the rumors about a sex tape involving Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl and thought, “Well, this will be a fine way to cross-promote that catchy little Cobra Starship song she lends vocals to.” I mean, it’s called “Good Girls Go Bad,” for Pete’s sake. So obvs! [The Awl / YouTube] MORE »
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At This Rate, Every “Gossip Girl” Character Will Have Their Own Musical Project By The End Of The Month
“(I Make) Good Girls Go Bad” is the first single from Hot Mess, the third album by self-aware electropop outfit Cobra Starship–and in a sort of one-upping of yesterday’s news that her co-star Taylor Momsen had signed to Interscope, it has Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester trading off vocals with lead Cobra Gabe Saporta. The track is produced by Kevin “Let It Rock” Rudolf, and it doesn’t quite have the crackle of “Guilty Pleasure” from the band’s last album, but Meester certainly sounds like she has at least a couple more songs of “electro-pop edge” left in her. [YouTube / MySpace] MORE »
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New Jersey Gets Bamboozled By Nostalgia
Saturday’s “surprise guest” at the two-day parking-lot festival known as the Bamboozle was introduced with the three words “Don’t,” “Stop,” and “Believin’,” and from my vantage point in the crowd–which rendered the men muscling through four of Journey’s hits onstage into something resembling very animated Berzerk robots–I thought that I was actually watching the San Francisco band collect a big, yet sorta-strange, paycheck. As it turned out, the band that I was singing along with was actually a really, really convincing tribute band. (Of course, some smart-asses out there will assert that having Arnel Pineda on vocals makes the currently touring incarnation of Journey a cover band of sorts, but we’ll leave that alone for now.) But the surprise and its “gotcha!” aftershock were both appropriate for a festival that, despite being clad in “FUCK SWINE FLU” t-shirts as far as the eye could see, spent a fair chunk of time looking back. MORE »
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The Academy Is… Finally Give In, Become A Tribute-Video Act
The Academy Is… irritate me to no end when I’m forced to add the ellipsis to their name for accuracy, but I’m willing to let it go considering how much I’ve enjoyed their album Fast Times at Barrington High this year. Still, something’s been missing. Something that would tie the occasionally angsty teen-rock lyrics of the band with the popular films that seem to inspire the band; something that would summarize one of those films to spare me the trouble of watching it again. YouTube, you always come through. MORE »
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Cobra Starship Are Everywhere That You Go
In the wake of my continual pondering over… MORE »
Gabe Saporta > Eminem
Not that the serial hoodie wearer/Cobra Starship… MORE »
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Fall Out Boy Have The Ticket
ARTIST: Fall Out Boy et al.
TITLE: Welcome To The New Administration
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 25, 2008 MORE »
