Photo: Rae Votta
Sometimes bands give you so many reasons to love them it's impossible to just walk away and act like one week (waaaay back in 2007) where you babbled about them all the time is really going to be enough. And by "you" I mean me, and by "band" I mean Cobra Starship.
I caught the New York stop of their Really Really Ridiculously Good
Looking Tour (you don't actually have to ask if that's a joke, do you?)
and then a couple more shows when they were out here on the west coast. There were way more than a few wide-eyed, glowing boys among the teenage girls in the audience, and if there's one thing about this band that's not a joke, it's their missionary zeal to make you shed your ironic cool and shake your ass. And by "you" in this case, I mean you. Check their site to hear the album if you haven't yet.
So in lieu of my monthly tithe to the church of hot addiction, and for Out's other Jason, who keeps bugging me about when I'm going to finish this post, here are a few more and updated reasons to just say yes:
> While other groups are doing their best to dodge the gossip writers constantly dogging them at after-parties and club openings. Cobra Starship hired their own loose-lipped blogger to do the dirty work for them.
> The band wants you to remix their new single, "The City is at War," into an even more stompalicious, Gossip Girl montage-worthy jam. Download the vocal and instrumental tracks (and listen up for Fall Out Boy's singer and Cobra producer Patrick Stump, who can be heard in the background clips), re-cut the song and upload to your MySpace. Or, as the band says: "You can even just download the instrumental version and record your own vocals instead of my crappy ones. Cobra Karaoke!"
> If somehow you missed them on Viva La Cobra, MTV's Real World-style mockery of a genre that is soooo in need of being mocked to perfection, you can still watch all the webisodes over at Overdrive.
> After his Out.com interview last year, I got more than a few curious e-mails and IMs from readers who apparently felt I hadn't directly enough quizzed Saporta on his actual, fact-checkable sexuality. (The photo above was taken shortly before he started making out with an on-stage cut-out of Zoolander given to him by a fan.) I offered Gabe the opportunity to start some rumors about himself right here at Popnography, but apparently he was having a (very) rare serious moment. Or, well, as serious as he gets: "I'm flattered they think I'm gay -- I must have even better style than I thought! But despite the fact that I'm one sassy bitch, I'm unfortunately one straight sassy bitch."
Console yourself with some nice shots from assorted shows after the jump...
All photos by Rae Votta. Click any to enlarge!
Bassist Alex Suarez
Keytar player Vicky T
Previously > Guilty Pleasure > Bringing sassy back
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