Ruby Isle is a band created when Mark Mallman

Mark Mallman

Mark Mallman is a Minnesota musician and composer for film.-Education:Mallman graduated from Waukesha South High School in 1991. He studied jazz piano at The Milwaukee Conservatory of Music then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1991...

 joined with his high school friend Dan Geller (co-founder of Kindercore Records

Kindercore Records

Kindercore Records is an independent record label based in Athens, Georgia, which was founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to document the emerging music scene in Athens, Georgia....

) 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 #1 song on indie music blog aggregator elbo.ws

Elbo.ws

elbo.ws is an online feed aggregator that aggregates music blogs exclusively. It detects links to mp3 files and then extracts the id3 tags from the mp3 files....

. The first pressing of their album Night Shot

Night Shot

Night Shot is a 2008 album by Ruby Isle.- Track listing :# "So Damn High"# "Hey Hey Hey" # "How it Hurts"# "Solsbury Hill" Night Shot is a 2008 album by Ruby Isle.- Track listing :# "So Damn High"# "Hey Hey Hey" (That Kid's Okay)# "How it Hurts"# "Solsbury Hill" Night Shot is a 2008 album by Ruby...

 included all the covers from the first wave of this project:

1. "Shadow Falls" (Hello Blue Roses)
2. "Aly Walk with Me" (Ravonettes)
3. "Tyrant" (Black Mountain
   Black Mountain (band)
   Black Mountain is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band is composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.-Overview:...
   
   )
4. "Foam Hands" (Destroyer
   Destroyer (band)
   Destroyer is a Canadian indie pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar.- Overview :Daniel Bejar is an independent pop singer-songwriter from Vancouver who formed Destroyer in 1995. He self-produced his first album, the lo-fi We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge, which was recorded at his in...
   
   )
5. "Gila" (Beach House
   Beach House
   Beach House is a dream pop duo formed in 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland, consisting of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut, Beach House, released in 2006, was critically acclaimed. This was followed by their second release, Devotion, in 2008...
   
   )
6. "The Planes of Baltimore" (Stephen Malkmus
   Stephen Malkmus
   Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an indie rock musician and icon, and a member of the band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.-Early years:...
   
   /MIA
   M.I.A. (artist)
   Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A. , is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music. M.I.A...
   
   )

• 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
  7. "Sax Rohmer No. 1" (The Mountain Goats
     The Mountain Goats
     The Mountain Goats is an American indie rock band formed in Claremont, CA by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle himself, despite the plural moniker....
     
     )
  8. "Cherry Tulips" (Headlights
     Headlights (band)
     Headlights is an American indie rock band from Champaign, Illinois on Polyvinyl Records. The band was formed following the dissolution of Absinthe Blind, when members Erin Fein, Seth Fein and Brett Sanderson formed a band named Orphans...
     
     )

elbo.ws II

In January 2009, they started the project again, this time also making videos for the covers, which were posted on YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

:

1. "White Winter Hymnal" (Fleet Foxes
   Fleet Foxes
   Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
   
   )
2. "Skinny Love" (Bon Iver
   Bon Iver
   Bon Iver is a Grammy nominated folk band founded in 2007 by American indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. It includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, and Matthew McCaughan. Vernon released Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July 2007. The majority of that album was...
   
   )
3. "The Rake's Song" (The Decemberists
   The Decemberists
   The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk , Jenny Conlee , Nate Query , and John Moen .The band's...
   
   )
4. "My Girls (Animal Collective
   Animal Collective
   Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
   
   )
5. "Short Fuse" (Black Lips
   Black Lips
   Black Lips are a "Flower Punk" band from Atlanta, Georgia.-History:The band formed in 1999 in Dunwoody, Georgia after guitarist Cole Alexander and bassist Jared Swilley left the Renegades, and guitarist Ben Eberbaugh left the Reruns. Alexander and Swilley were known for their crude antics both...
   
   )
6. "Now We Can See" (The Thermals
   The Thermals
   The Thermals are an American indie punk band based in Portland, Oregon. The group was formed in 2002. With influences heavily rooted in both lo-fi punk, as well as more standard rock, the band's songs are also known for their political and religious imagery.- History :The Thermals came together in...
   
   )

Studio Albums

• Night Shot
  Night Shot
  Night Shot is a 2008 album by Ruby Isle.- Track listing :# "So Damn High"# "Hey Hey Hey" # "How it Hurts"# "Solsbury Hill" Night Shot is a 2008 album by Ruby Isle.- Track listing :# "So Damn High"# "Hey Hey Hey" (That Kid's Okay)# "How it Hurts"# "Solsbury Hill" Night Shot is a 2008 album by Ruby...
  
  (2008, Kindercore)
• Appetite for Destruction
  Appetite for Destruction (Ruby Isle album)
  Appetite for Destruction is a 2010 album by Ruby Isle. It is a cover of Guns N' Roses' 1987 album of the same name. It was released through iTunes on December 2, 2010...
  
  (2010, Kindercore)

Singles/EPs

• Into the Black
  Into the Black (Ruby Isle EP)
  Into the Black is an EP by Ruby Isle, a band featuring Mark Mallman, Kindercore founder Dan Geller and drummer Aaron LeMay. It was released on Kindercore April 1, 2007....
  
  EP
  Extended play
  An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
  
   (2007, Kindercore)
• "Someday" (The Strokes
  The Strokes
  The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....
  
   cover) [free mp3 download] (2009, Kindercore)

Contributions and other releases

• Xmas 3 - The War on Christmas! (2007, Kindercore)
  • Song: "Jack's Obsession"
• Rewind (2008, Buffetlibre)
  • Song: "The Final Cut
    The Final Cut (song)
    "The Final Cut" is the title track from Pink Floyd's 1983 album The Final Cut. The video depicts Roger Waters singing to a psychologist and utilizes old film footage of 1930s and 1940s life intertwined...
    
    "

External links

• Ruby Isle's YouTube Channel