# Ruby Isle

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{{Short description|American band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Ruby Isle
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| years_active        = 2007 - 
| label               = [Kindercore](/source/Kindercore)
| website             = http://kindercore.com/bands/view/ruby-isle
| current_members     = [Mark Mallman](/source/Mark_Mallman)<br>[Dan Geller](/source/Dan_Geller)<br>[Aaron LeMay](/source/Aaron_LeMay)
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'''''Ruby Isle''''' is a band created when [Mark Mallman](/source/Mark_Mallman) joined with his high school friend [Dan Geller](/source/Dan_Geller) (co-founder of [Kindercore Records](/source/Kindercore_Records))  and drummer [Aaron LeMay](/source/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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;1 song on indie music blog aggregator [elbo.ws](/source/elbo.ws).  The first pressing of their album [Night Shot](/source/Night_Shot) included all the covers from the first wave of this project:

#"Shadow Falls" <small>([Hello Blue Roses](/source/Hello_Blue_Roses))</small>
#"Aly Walk with Me" <small>([The Raveonettes](/source/The_Raveonettes))</small>
#"Tyrant" <small>([Black Mountain](/source/Black_Mountain_(band)))</small>
#"Foam Hands" <small>([Destroyer](/source/Destroyer_(band)))</small>
#"Gila" <small>([Beach House](/source/Beach_House))</small>
#"The Planes of Baltimore" <small>([Stephen Malkmus](/source/Stephen_Malkmus)/[MIA](/source/M.I.A._(artist)))</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.&nbsp;1](/source/Sax_Rohmer_1)" <small>([The Mountain Goats](/source/The_Mountain_Goats))</small>
#"Cherry Tulips" <small>([Headlights](/source/Headlights_(band)))</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](/source/YouTube):

#"White Winter Hymnal" <small>([Fleet Foxes](/source/Fleet_Foxes))</small>
#"Skinny Love" <small>([Bon Iver](/source/Bon_Iver))</small>
#"The Rake's Song" <small>([The Decemberists](/source/The_Decemberists))</small>
#"My Girls <small>([Animal Collective](/source/Animal_Collective))</small>
#"Short Fuse" <small>([Black Lips](/source/Black_Lips))</small>
#"Now We Can See" <small>([The Thermals](/source/The_Thermals))</small>

==Discography==

===Studio albums===
* ''[Night Shot](/source/Night_Shot)'' (2008, [Kindercore](/source/Kindercore))
* ''[Appetite for Destruction](/source/Appetite_for_Destruction_(Ruby_Isle_album))'' (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](/source/Extended_play) (2007, Kindercore)
* "Someday" ([The Strokes](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/YouTube) |access-date=2009-04-21 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Contributions and other releases===
*''Xmas 3 - The War on Christmas!'' (2007, [Kindercore](/source/Kindercore))
**Song: "Jack's Obsession"
*''Rewind'' (2008, Buffetlibre)
**Song: "[The Final Cut](/source/The_Final_Cut_(song))"

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/rubyisle Ruby Isle's YouTube Channel]

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