title: Ruby Isle
text: # Ruby Isle
  
  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 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" (Destroyer)
  * "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
  * "Sax Rohmer No. 1" (The Mountain Goats)
  * "Cherry Tulips" (Headlights)
  
  ### 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" (Fleet Foxes)
  * "Skinny Love" (Bon Iver)
  * "The Rake's Song" (The Decemberists)
  * "My Girls (Animal Collective)
  * "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) [free 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"
  