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Ruby Isle

About Me

Ruby Isle are a singing trio of brothers — Aaron, Dan, and Mark Isle. In the year 2008, they received a plea to come to the Mexican village of Santo Poco to defend it from a bandit named El Guapo. The villagers gave the band a hero's welcome. After a nearly fatal confrontation with El Guapo, they realized the danger to which they were subject.Ruby Isle made several disastrous attempts to thwart the bandits, including infiltration of El Guapo's birthday party and seeking of mystical aid via a singing bush and an invisible swordsman. They then discovered that the villagers' greatest skill is sewing. Ruby Isle organized the villagers, using their sewing skills to create an army of "Amigos" by replicating their mariachi costumes. The villagers defeat the bandits by appearing clad in the costumes and shooting from all sides, creating the illusion that the Amigos are everywhere. Thereafter, Ruby Isle rode off into the sunset.
No matter the style, Ruby Isle sings tight three-part harmonies that were instantly recognizable; as brothers, their voices blended perfectly, in the same way that The Beach Boys' did. The three brothers co-write most of their hits and enjoy pastimes such as International Espionage, Mallman and I am the World Trade Center; but they say that they feel like they become 'one person' when they are writing
Buy NIGHT SHOT now on
The Rake's Song (The Decemberists Cover)
Skinny Love (Bon Iver Cover)
White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes Cover)
Have You Heard Session (kind of): Ruby Isle from HaveYouHeard on Vimeo .
Ruby Isle - "How It Hurts" from Taylor Coggin on Vimeo .
Teenage Riot

My Interests

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Member Since: 11/30/2006
Band Website: www.kindercore.com
Band Members: Mark Mallman - Vocals, Guitar
Dan Geller - Bass, Vocoder
Aaron Lemay - Drums
Sounds Like: The Party Band of the Apocalypse
Record Label: kindercore
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HOLY NEWS!

Oh yes oh yes!  we're in the midst of Elbo.ws 2.0 people - starting 2009 with a hell of a lot-o-vocoder and pink gorilla - the vids are posted below - Elbo.ws 2.0 has a video accompanying every song. ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:08:00 GMT

HOLY JEWELS!!!

The whole band has been busy lifting weights and bullying school children readying for the West Coast tour.  We also shot 2 videos for "So Damn High" and "How it Hurts" - which we'll post in a co...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:44:00 GMT

why do birds suddenly appear...

Did you ever see the movie TRON?  and there is this thing that flies around and goes YES YES YES, NO NO NO!!!!!  We have caught one of those things and are keeping it in a jar.  In othe...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 04:28:00 GMT

SXSW and LP UPDATE

  Oh boy, the Ruby Isle album is undergoing it's final mixing and mastering, so basically it's all done!  yay!  oh yeah, and just like a new born baby, it has a name: "Night S...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:29:00 GMT

Elbo.ws covers done

Ruby Isle has decided to take a break from the ongoing elbo.ws cover project so we can finally get down to business on our own record. We have been neglecting it because the covers have been so much f...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:23:00 GMT

Ruby Isle vs. Headlights - elbo.ws week 8

As luck would have it, we were in the middle of remixing Headlights' "Put us Back Together Right" for their upcoming remix album and their track "Cherry Tulips" went to 1 on elbo.ws. Needless to ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:58:00 GMT

Ruby Isle vs. Mountain Goats - Sax Rhomer 1

Back in 1994, long before the internet let you hear songs months before they came out I drove up to the first Merge Records Fest in Chapel Hill with my friends Phil Waldorf, Barry Paulson and Andy Bat...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:57:00 GMT

Ruby Isle vs. M.I.A. vs. Steve Malkmus vs. elbo.ws

The holidays totally kicked our ass. I was supposed to go visit my parents in Milwaukee for two days and then spend the rest of the week in Minneapolis working on the Ruby Isle record and our latest e...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:56:00 GMT

Ruby Isle vs. elbo.ws 4 - Destroyer Foam Hands

This week's number one on elbo.ws is Destroyer's "Foam Hands" I don't know what this Dan Bejar character is putting in the bloggers' cereal, but they sure love him!!! The first song we did in this pro...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:47:00 GMT

Week 3 - Tyrants

It has been an interesting week for our elbo.ws project. We saw Black Mountain's "Tyrants" climbing the charts last week and were really excited to get to tackle such a complicated song that is s...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:37:00 GMT