{{Short description|American band}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Ruby Isle | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = | genre = | years_active = 2007 - | label = Kindercore | website = http://kindercore.com/bands/view/ruby-isle | current_members = Mark Mallman<br>Dan Geller<br>Aaron LeMay | past_members = }}
'''''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<ref>{{cite web | last=Van Buskirk | first=Eliot | title=Ruby Isle Covers Whatever Song Is No. 1 on Elbo.ws | url=https://www.wired.com/listening_post/2007/11/ruby-isle-cover/ | date=2007-11-29 | work=Listening Post | publisher=Wired | access-date=2009-05-25 }}</ref> 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" <small>(Hello Blue Roses)</small> #"Aly Walk with Me" <small>(The Raveonettes)</small> #"Tyrant" <small>(Black Mountain)</small> #"Foam Hands" <small>(Destroyer)</small> #"Gila" <small>(Beach House)</small> #"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 #<li value=7>"Sax Rohmer No. 1" <small>(The Mountain Goats)</small> #"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:
#"White Winter Hymnal" <small>(Fleet Foxes)</small> #"Skinny Love" <small>(Bon Iver)</small> #"The Rake's Song" <small>(The Decemberists)</small> #"My Girls <small>(Animal Collective)</small> #"Short Fuse" <small>(Black Lips)</small> #"Now We Can See" <small>(The Thermals)</small>
==Discography==
===Studio albums=== * ''Night Shot'' (2008, Kindercore) * ''Appetite for Destruction'' (2010, Kindercore)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kindercorerecords.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-site-new-announcements.html|title = Kindercore: New site, New Announcements|date = 7 September 2010}}</ref>
===Singles/EPs=== * ''Into the Black'' EP (2007, Kindercore) * "Someday" (The Strokes cover) [free mp3 download] (2009, Kindercore)<ref name="Kindercore92809">{{cite web |author=dan |title=Ruby Isle Night Shot - Remixes! Strokes Cover, New Video, New Remixes |url=http://kindercore.com/words/2009/09/28/rubyislestrokescover/ |work=Kindercore Words! |publisher=Kindercore |date=2009-09-28 |access-date=2009-10-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712150450/http://kindercore.com/words/2009/09/28/rubyislestrokescover/ |archive-date=2012-07-12 }}</ref>
===Remix albums=== * ''Night Shot - The Remixes'' (2010)<ref name="Kindercore92809" /><ref>{{cite video |people=Ruby Isle |date=2009-04-19 |title=Elbo.ws2Megamix |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiC7rTf0VuU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/HiC7rTf0VuU |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|format=YouTube |access-date=2009-04-21 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
===Contributions and other releases=== *''Xmas 3 - The War on Christmas!'' (2007, Kindercore) **Song: "Jack's Obsession" *''Rewind'' (2008, Buffetlibre) **Song: "The Final Cut"
==References== <references />
==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/user/rubyisle Ruby Isle's YouTube Channel]
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Category:American indie pop groups