Ruby Isle
Appearance
Ruby Isle | |
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Years active | 2007 - |
Labels | Kindercore |
Members | Mark Mallman Dan Geller Aaron LeMay |
Website | http://kindercore.com/bands/view/ruby-isle |
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[1] 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 week's 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)[2]
Singles/EPs
- Into the Black EP (2007, Kindercore)
- "Someday" (The Strokes cover) [free mp3 download] (2009, Kindercore)[3]
Remix albums
Contributions and other releases
- Xmas 3 - The War on Christmas! (2007, Kindercore)
- Song: "Jack's Obsession"
- Rewind (2008, Buffetlibre)
- Song: "The Final Cut"
References
- ^ Van Buskirk, Eliot (2007-11-29). "Ruby Isle Covers Whatever Song Is No. 1 on Elbo.ws". Listening Post. Wired. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
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(help) - ^ http://kindercorerecords.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-site-new-announcements.html
- ^ a b dan (2009-09-28). "Ruby Isle Night Shot - Remixes! Strokes Cover, New Video, New Remixes". Kindercore Words!. Kindercore. Retrieved 2009-10-04. [dead link]
- ^ Ruby Isle (2009-04-19). Elbo.ws2Megamix (YouTube). Retrieved 2009-04-21.