Cobra Starship

MEMBERS:

Gabe Saporta, Alex Suarez, Ryland Blackinton, Elisa Schwartz, Nate Navarro

Album:

While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets.

Release Date:

October 10, 2006.

You'll Like 'Em If You Like:

The Academy Is�, Head Automatica, Scissor Sisters, Fall Out Boy, hellogoodbye.

Cobra Starship on Cobra Starship in Five Words or Less:

Sass Attack.

We've heard a lot of weird stories about how bands were formed, but Cobra Starship is by far the weirdest. Legend has it, Gabe Saporta was taking time off from pop-punk group, Midtown, when he took a trip to the Arizona desert to figure out his next move. One night while Gabe was lying down and looking at the stars, a snake came out of nowhere and bit him in the neck! The snake later "spoke" to him, telling him that he came from the future to instruct Gabe to save the world by "teaching hipsters to not take themselves so seriously and by telling emo kids to stop being [babies]." Gabe heeded the snake's advice and formed Cobra Starship on his good friend Pete Wentz's Decaydance label. As luck would have it, there was a movie being made called Snakes on a Plane. Knowing that this was his big chance to jumpstart his new group, Gabe wrote and performed the film's theme song. (The video includes cameos from Pete Wentz, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, William Beckett of The Academy Is..., and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds.) Get bitten by Cobra Starship now!

We've gotta ask: the whole story about the snake -- is that all true?
Absolutely. That's when I had my realization [that I needed to do something new]. I went out there and almost died, and this cobra told me not to take myself so seriously. That just changed my attitude.

Are you afraid of snakes at all?
No, not at all. Snakes are respected and revered, especially cobras.