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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 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:

  1. "Shadow Falls" <small>(Hello Blue Roses)</small>
  2. "Aly Walk with Me" <small>(The Raveonettes)</small>
  3. "Tyrant" <small>(Black Mountain)</small>
  4. "Foam Hands" <small>(Destroyer)</small>
  5. "Gila" <small>(Beach House)</small>
  6. "The Planes of Baltimore" <small>(Stephen Malkmus/MIA)</small>
:*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
  1. <li value=7>"Sax Rohmer No.&nbsp;1" <small>(The Mountain Goats)</small>
  2. "Cherry Tulips" <small>(Headlights)</small>

elbo.ws II

In January 2009, they started the project again, this time also making videos for the covers, which were posted on YouTube:

  1. "White Winter Hymnal" <small>(Fleet Foxes)</small>
  2. "Skinny Love" <small>(Bon Iver)</small>
  3. "The Rake's Song" <small>(The Decemberists)</small>
  4. "My Girls <small>(Animal Collective)</small>
  5. "Short Fuse" <small>(Black Lips)</small>
  6. "Now We Can See" <small>(The Thermals)</small>

Discography

Studio albums

Singles/EPs

  • Into the Black EP (2007, Kindercore)
  • "Someday" (The Strokes cover) [free mp3 download] (2009, Kindercore)

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

External links