Cobra Starship

Cobra Starship, a side project of Midtown's Gabe Saporta, a man bent on chasing the cultural zeitgeist with songs like "Bring It (Snakes On A Plane)" and "Pop-Punk Is Sooooo '05." But just when you think Cobra's a bunch of wafer-thin culture whores, they roll out lovely sing-along pop songs like "The Kids Are All F*cked Up." The music is faux 1980s new wave, very much like that of Head Automatica, which will please listeners of a certain age, and youths for whom this is all new territory.

Cobra Starship scored a hit this summer with "Bring It (Snakes on a Plane)," a fun pop-punk
tribute to a buzzed-about movie no one ended up seeing. Like the movie, Cobra Starship's
debut doesn't have much going for it aside from that tune. Following in the tracks of Panic!
at the Disco and Fall Out Boy, Cobra put out high-energy, techno-fied emo songs with
exhausting song titles such as "Send My Love to the Dance Floor I'll See You in H... More >