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Ruby Isle

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Years active
  
2007 -

Active from
  
2007

Record label
  
Kindercore Records

Labels
  
Kindercore

Genre
  
Rock

Members
  
Mark Mallman

Associated acts
  
Mark Mallman I Am the World Trade Center

Website
  
http://kindercore.com/bands/view/ruby-isle

Albums
  
Night Shot, Appetite for Destruction, Night Shot – The Remixes, Into the Black

Similar
  
I Am the World Trade Ce, Tay Zonday, Har Mar Superstar, Ryan Lewis

Sxsw 2007 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.

Contents

Ruby isle at 400 bar 3 12 2007


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" (Hello Blue Roses)
  2. "Aly Walk with Me" (The Raveonettes)
  3. "Tyrant" (Black Mountain)
  4. "Foam Hands" (Destroyer)
  5. "Gila" (Beach House)
  6. "The Planes of Baltimore" (Stephen Malkmus/MIA)
  1. "Sax Rohmer No. 1" (The Mountain Goats)
  2. "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:

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

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"

    • Songs

    Solsbury HillNight Shot · 2008
    My MichelleAppetite for Destruction · 2010
    Paradise CityAppetite for Destruction · 2010

    References

    Ruby Isle Wikipedia
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