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''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
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) 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) #"Tyrant" ( Black Mountain) #"Foam Hands" (
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) #"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 #
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    )     #"Cherry Tulips" ( Headlights)


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    In January 2009, they started the project again, this time also making videos for the covers, which were posted on YouTube: #"White Winter Hymnal" (
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    )     #"Skinny Love" ( Bon Iver) #"The Rake's Song" ( The Decemberists) #"My Girls (
    Animal Collective Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, 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 characterized ...
    )     #"Short Fuse" ( Black Lips) #"Now We Can See" ( The Thermals)


    Discography


    Studio albums

    * '' Night Shot'' (2008, Kindercore) * '' Appetite for Destruction'' (2010, Kindercore)


    Singles/EPs

    * ''Into the Black'' EP (2007, Kindercore) * "Someday" ( The Strokes 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) **Song: "Jack's Obsession" *''Rewind'' (2008, Buffetlibre) **Song: " The Final Cut"


    References


    External links


    Ruby Isle's YouTube Channel
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