Ruby Isle
Ruby Isle  | |
|---|---|
| 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 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)[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 (November 29, 2007). "Ruby Isle Covers Whatever Song Is No. 1 on Elbo.ws". Listening Post. Wired. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
 - ^ "Kindercore: New site, New Announcements". September 7, 2010.
 - ^ a b dan (September 28, 2009). "Ruby Isle Night Shot - Remixes! Strokes Cover, New Video, New Remixes". Kindercore Words!. Kindercore. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2009.
 - ^ Ruby Isle (April 19, 2009). Elbo.ws2Megamix (YouTube). Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 21, 2009.