Ruby Isle
American band
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::summary American band ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Ruby Isle |
| background | group_or_band |
| years_active | 2007 - |
| label | Kindercore |
| associated_acts | Mark Mallman |
| I Am the World Trade Center | |
| website | http://kindercore.com/bands/view/ruby-isle |
| current_members | Mark Mallman |
| Dan Geller | |
| Aaron LeMay | |
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| name = Ruby Isle | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = | genre = | years_active = 2007 - | label = Kindercore | associated_acts = Mark Mallman I Am the World Trade Center | website = http://kindercore.com/bands/view/ruby-isle | current_members = Mark Mallman Dan Geller Aaron LeMay | past_members =
Ruby Isle is a band created when Mark Mallman joined with his high school friend Dan Geller (co-founder of Kindercore Records) and drummer Aaron LeMay. They released an EP, Into the Black in 2007 and released their first full-length album Night Shot in 2008.
elbo.ws covers
In late 2007, Ruby Isle started a project in which they covered the No. 1 song on indie music blog aggregator elbo.ws. The first pressing of their album Night Shot included all the covers from the first wave of this project:
- "Shadow Falls" (Hello Blue Roses)
- "Aly Walk with Me" (The Raveonettes)
- "Tyrant" (Black Mountain)
- "Foam Hands" (Destroyer)
- "Gila" (Beach House)
- "The Planes of Baltimore" (Stephen Malkmus/MIA) ::*Ruby Isle missed a week, so they took two weeks' number ones ("Baltimore" by Stephen Malkmus and "Paper Planes" by MIA) and created one "mash-up" cover
- "Sax Rohmer No. 1" (The Mountain Goats)
- "Cherry Tulips" (Headlights)
elbo.ws II
In January 2009, they started the project again, this time also making videos for the covers, which were posted on YouTube:
- "White Winter Hymnal" (Fleet Foxes)
- "Skinny Love" (Bon Iver)
- "The Rake's Song" (The Decemberists)
- "My Girls (Animal Collective)
- "Short Fuse" (Black Lips)
- "Now We Can See" (The Thermals)
Discography
Studio albums
- Night Shot (2008, Kindercore)
- Appetite for Destruction (2010, Kindercore)
Singles/EPs
- Into the Black EP (2007, Kindercore)
- "Someday" (The Strokes cover) [free mp3 download] (2009, Kindercore)
Remix albums
- Night Shot - The Remixes (2010)
Contributions and other releases
- Xmas 3 - The War on Christmas! (2007, Kindercore)
- Song: "Jack's Obsession"
- Rewind (2008, Buffetlibre)
- Song: "The Final Cut"
References
References
- Van Buskirk, Eliot. (2007-11-29). "Ruby Isle Covers Whatever Song Is No. 1 on Elbo.ws". Wired.
- (7 September 2010). "Kindercore: New site, New Announcements".
- dan. (2009-09-28). "Ruby Isle Night Shot - Remixes! Strokes Cover, New Video, New Remixes". [[Kindercore]].
- (2009-04-19). "Elbo.ws2Megamix".
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