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 »
Posts Tagged ‘Cobra Starship’
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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 »
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Gabe Saporta: Not Dead
Just in case you were wondering why on earth “gabe saporta dead” was rising up the Google Trends ranks yesterday, apparently some lunatic out there Photoshopped an MTVNews.com page and a death certificate that were both claiming the Cobra Starship singer had died in a bus accident. MORE »
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Cobra Starship Make The “Guilty Pleasure” Headlines Flow Like Water
So, let’s take some inventory for Cobra Starship’s latest video for “Guilty Pleasure,” which replaces the very cute “home movie” one they made as they continue their quest to crack MTV’s 3 a.m. rotation. Zubaz and Zink-covered noses? Check. MORE »
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Pitchfork Writer Too Embarrassed To Say “Cobra Starship Spin-Off”
The first time I heard This Is Ivy League (back when they were known as just Ivy League), I assumed they were from Sweden, where this brand of sophisticated, historically-minded twee pop apparently bubbles up from underground springs. Actually, Stephen M. Deusner, they’re members of Cobra Starship. I was wrong, of course. The duo–Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez–actually hail from Brooklyn, and they recorded their self-titled fell-length debut in their own borough apartments. Which are probably paid for with money made from Cobra Starship. “The Richest Kids”, the album’s opening track, portrays them still cutting their teeth career-wise: “Oh we’ve been working, we’ve been paying our dues,” they sing over dreamy backing vocals, crisp guitar licks, and a distant tambourine. “We’ve got dirt on our hands and holes in our choes.” They’re singing about being in Cobra Starship and I think you mean “shoes.” Yet their tender Chad & Jeremy melodies and polished harmonies sound pretty professional, as if they’ve been at this for years. They have. As members of Cobra Starship. MORE »
Fueled By Ramen Is Ready To Suck You Into Its Revenue Stream
If you want to learn how to market your band/club/burgeoning multimedia empire in the late oughts, make time to read this New York Times profile of Fueled By Ramen, the label that, according to the Times, “has its acts promote one another as well as the company itself.” MORE »
