My favorite band from New Zealand, The Ruby Suns, have been keeping busy since releasing their second LP Sea Lion earlier this year. Somehow between touring, resting, and self-discovering, they've managed to pop into the recording studio now and again, churning out at least three gems. NOt only that, but they've decided to give them away for free:[MP3] The Ruby Suns - Birthday (Beatles Cover)...
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Yes, it's coming up at this very moment, as I sit here idle on ichat, sans sleep, and write about a band called: The Ruby Suns.So, they hail from New Zealand. Island-inspired psychedelic rock meets cosmic-inspired chaotic niceness. So good! Especially their second album Sea Lion, and especially Morning Sun, particularly because 3:20 in, the first half of the song leaks into the second half, and...
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There are bands and when you hear them, there are people that come to mind and just thinking about it puts you off of it. “That band sounds so weird, its like they’re trying to be weird” you can hear yourself say the first time you put the record on. It's the kind of record where if you put it on, people are going to roll their eyes and now you are one of those guys, who listens to cooler th
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The Ruby Suns are going to be a hot number at SXSW this year. The Auckland, New Zealand band has been generating a lot of buzz recently and they just released this video for "Tane Mahuta" off their upcoming new LP. Sea Lion will be released on Sub Pop March 4th, just in time for the roadtrip to Austin. The Ruby Suns will also be hot at SXSW because they come from the Southern hemisphere, the...
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Because the weather tomorrow looks like it's gonna be awful, our amazing Saturday CMJ day party which was originally scheduled for The Yard is moving indoors to the Market Hotel. Here is the Lineup again: Fight Bite High Places The Homosexuals Women Bearsuit MBAR Passion Pit The Ruby Suns Crystal Stilts
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I'm writing this from inside our rented motorhome at a KOA in Sandusky, Ohio. It's right near cedar point, an "amusement park" but we're not going to that. we're playing in detroit tonight with these seriously sweet dudes, tilly and the wall.we played at a massive ampitheatre kind of thing outside of pittsburgh. i think the capacity was somewhere around 20k. needless to say, there weren't 20,00...
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We ate wild huckleberries at cranberry lake, funnily enough. they were delicious.This is the album I enjoyed whilst driving through the snow through South Dakota and Idaho earlier this year.
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If Sigur Rós and the Beach Boys ventured out to the desert together, channeled the spirits of an early 20th century mariachi band, and took a magical, musical sleigh-ride through a snowcapped desert, all while Sufjan Stevens and his backing band stood around a Joshua tree, providing sweetly spooky atmospherics, then the result might sound something like The Ruby Suns' Sea Lion. The sophomore al..
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The Ruby Suns have always had a little tropicalia and afro-beat in them, but now they're really letting it shine. Here they are covering the Beatles' "Birthday" with Malawi's Esau Mwamwaya on vocals. It sounds like the Lion King got a real shot in the arm. MP3: The Ruby Suns and Esau Mwamwaya - Birthday (Beatles) I [...]
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Here are three more artists to warm you up and the days get shorter and our planet hurtles away from the sun.The Ruby SunsFor those who like : Yo La Tengo, YeasayerPsychedelic indie pop from New Zealand. The Ruby Suns' MyspaceLand Of TalkFor those who like : Cat Power, Blonde RedheadMontreal just keeps pumping them out. Land Of Talk plays the Sound Academy in Toronto Nov. 27/28 opening from B...
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My favorite band from New Zealand, The Ruby Suns, have been keeping busy since releasing their second LP Sea Lion earlier this year. Somehow between touring, resting, and self-discovering, they've managed to pop into the recording studio now and again, churning out at least three gems. NOt only that, but they've decided to give them away for free:[MP3] The Ruby Suns - Birthday (Beatles Cover)...
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My favorite band from New Zealand, The Ruby Suns, have been keeping busy since releasing their second LP Sea Lion earlier this year. Somehow between touring, resting, and self-discovering, they've managed to pop into the recording studio now and again, churning out at least three gems. NOt only that, but they've decided to give them away for free:[MP3] The Ruby Suns - Birthday (Beatles Cover)...
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Thanks to all-around good guy YANP for the tip on this one. I've probably mentioned eight times by now that the Ruby Suns are collaborating with Esau Mwamwaya on his upcoming LP. What I didn't know is that Esau also joined the band on their gloriously uplifting afro-beat cover of "Birthday," confirming that everything the man touches indeed turns immediately to gold. It's the circle of life, b...
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