''Ruby Isle'' is a band created when
Mark Mallman
Mark Mallman (born July 20, 1973) is a Minnesota musician, film composer, and memoirist. Since 1998, he has released nine full-length studio albums, ''Happiness'' (2021) being his most recent.
Education
Mallman graduated from Waukesha South Hi ...
joined with his high school friend
Dan Geller (co-founder of
Kindercore Records
Kindercore Vinyl was a vinyl record pressing plant based in Athens, Georgia. It began as an independent record label, founded in 1996 in music, 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to help create a unified Music of Athens, Georgia, music scene of ...
) 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
The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. Their music is characterized by close two-part vocal harmonies inspired by The Everly B ...
)
#"Tyrant"
( Black Mountain)
#"Foam Hands"
(Destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived i ...
)
#"Gila"
(Beach House
Beach House is an American indie music, indie band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore in 2004 by current members Victoria Legrand (vocals, keyboards) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboard, backing vocals, drum programming). Their work is char ...
)
#"The Planes of Baltimore"
(Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus ( ; born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the primary songwriter, lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Pavement, The ...
/MIA
Mia, Mía, MIA, or M.I.A. may refer to:
Music Artists
* M.I.A. (rapper) (born 1975), English rapper and singer
* M.I.A. (American band), 1980s punk rock band from Orange County, California
* MIA. (German band), a German rock/pop band formed i ...
)
::*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
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" Sax Rohmer No. 1" (The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats are a United States band formed in Claremont, California, Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina. For many years, the sole me ...
)
#"Cherry Tulips" (Headlights
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)
elbo.ws II
In January 2009, they started the project again, this time also making videos for the covers, which were posted on YouTube
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:
#"White Winter Hymnal" (Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. The band currently consists of Robin Pecknold (vocals, guitar), Skyler Skjelset (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), Casey Wescott (keyboards, mandolin, backin ...
)
#"Skinny Love" (Bon Iver
Bon Iver ( ) is an American indie folk band founded in 2006 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Vernon had originally formed Bon Iver as a solo project, but it eventually became a band consisting of Vernon (vocals, guit ...
)
#"The Rake's Song" (The Decemberists
The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000. The band consists of Colin Meloy (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Funk (guitar, multi-instrumentalist), Jenny Conlee (piano, keyboards, accordion, backing vocals ...
)
#"My Girls (Animal Collective
Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore County, Maryland. Its members consist of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Deakin (Josh Dibb). The band's work is cha ...
)
#"Short Fuse" (Black Lips
Black Lips is an American garage rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999.
History
The band formed in Dunwoody, Georgia, after guitarist Cole Alexander and bassist Jared Swilley left the Renegades, and guitarist Ben Eberbaugh left the ...
)
#"Now We Can See" (The Thermals
The Thermals were an American indie rock band based in Portland, Oregon, United States. The group was formed in 2002. With influences heavily rooted in both lofi, as well as standard rock, the band's songs were also known for their political a ...
)
Discography
Studio albums
* '' Night Shot'' (2008, Kindercore
Kindercore Vinyl was a vinyl record pressing plant based in Athens, Georgia. It began as an independent record label, founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to help create a unified music scene of Athens. After the dissolution of the re ...
)
* ''Appetite for Destruction
''Appetite for Destruction'' is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records. It initially received little mainstream attention, and it was not until the following year that ''App ...
'' (2010, Kindercore)
Singles/EPs
* ''Into the Black'' EP (2007, Kindercore)
* "Someday" (The Strokes
The Strokes are an American Rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1998. The band is composed of lead singer and primary songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, Jr., Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikola ...
cover) ree mp3 download(2009, Kindercore)
Remix albums
* '' Night Shot - The Remixes'' (2010)
Contributions and other releases
*''Xmas 3 - The War on Christmas!'' (2007, Kindercore
Kindercore Vinyl was a vinyl record pressing plant based in Athens, Georgia. It began as an independent record label, founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to help create a unified music scene of Athens. After the dissolution of the re ...
)
**Song: "Jack's Obsession"
*''Rewind'' (2008, Buffetlibre)
**Song: " The Final Cut"
References
External links
Ruby Isle's YouTube Channel
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American indie pop groups