DOWNLOAD: Ruby Isle - White Winter Hymnal (FF cover) (MP3)

Fleet Foxes @ Grand Ballroom in NYC (more by Chris Owyoung)

October 1, 2005 Steve Carell & Kanye West
October 22, 2005 Catherine Zeta-Jones & Franz Ferdinand
January 14, 2006 Scarlett Johansson & Death Cab for Cutie
January 21, 2006 Peter Sarsgaard & The Strokes
March 11, 2006 Matt Dillon & Arctic Monkeys
January 13, 2007 Jake Gyllenhaal & The Shins
February 3, 2007 Drew Barrymore & Lily Allen
February 24, 2007 Rainn Wilson & Arcade Fire
April 21, 2007 Scarlett Johansson & Björk
September 29, 2007 LeBron James & Kanye West
October 6, 2007 Seth Rogen & Spoon
November 3, 2007 Brian Williams & Feist
March 1, 2008 Ellen Page & Wilco
March 8, 2008 Amy Adams & Vampire Weekend
April 12, 2008 Ashton Kutcher & Gnarls Barkley
May 10, 2008 Shia LaBeouf & My Morning Jacket
September 20, 2008 James Franco & Kings of Leon
September 27, 2008 Anna Faris & Duffy
October 18, 2008 Josh Brolin & Adele
December 13, 2008 Hugh Laurie & Kanye West

The above is a list of some of the musical guests Saturday Night Live has had on in the past 3-4 years. It's not super surprising then that next week's musical guest is going to be one of 2008's biggest indie success stories. The Sub Pop-signed Fleet Foxes will join host Rosario Dawson on the NBC TV show on January 17th.

This week (January 10)'s SNL guests are Neil Patrick Harris and Taylor Swift. Watch it with your pants off.

Taylor Swift is actually on an indie label, and if you count Arctic Monkeys (along with Arcade Fire, Spoon, the Shins, and Vampire Weekend), Fleet Foxes will actually be the 7th indie indie-label band ever to play the show (for what it's worth).

Who do you think they'll pick next? Bon Iver? Animal Collective?

Many SNL members regularly play live in shows at NYC's UCB Theatre (the home of indie comedy).

Fred Armisen recently performed with Yo La Tengo, appeared in a Beardo sketch, played some shows with Aimee Mann, and helped raise money for NY Cares at the now-extinct Knitting Factory.

Video of Fleet Foxes performing "White Winter Hymnal" for one of La Blogoteque's Take Away Shows, below...

Continue reading "Fleet Foxes are playing Saturday Night Live next week"

DOWNLOAD: Ruby Isle - Night Shot (featuring Tay Zonday) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Ruby Isle - Hey Hey Hey (That Kid's Okay) (MP3)

Ruby Isle is the band that covers everything and features Dan Geller from I Am The World Trade Center and I it seems, that like Weezer and like Girl Talk and Dan Deacon, they've managed to hookup with internet sensation Tay Zonday (MP3 above). "The LP also features a duet version of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" with IATWTC's Amy Dykes." They're also now in NYC. All dates below...

Continue reading "Ruby Isle - 2008 Tour Dates, a song w/ Tay Zonday, MP3s"

DOWNLOAD: Ruby Isle - Shadow Falls (Hello, Blue Roses) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls (MP3)

Last Friday, Ruby Isle was in the middle of recording our new record and were looking for some inspiration so we decided to take whatever track was number one on elbo.ws and cover it. It turned out it was a song by Hello, Blue Roses called Shadow Falls. Hello, Blue Roses has that guy Dan Bejar in it from Destroyer and The New Pornographers. This is conincdental because Ryan and I had a friend named Rob that had a label called Catsup Plate that put out a Destroyer record. Then our friend Phil Waldorf put out another Destroyer record on Misra. Then things got all out of control and they signed to Merge and became rock stars.

On to the song… It was a pretty easy song to cover because it is very simple. Basically a chorus with some verselike parts that go in and out. Our take on it is VERY different, I hope we don’t offend HBR because we mean no harm. It was just supposed to be a fun send up of a current indie fave. Keep in mind we recorded and mixed it in about 5 hours. So here it is: Ruby Isle - Shadow Falls (Hello, Blue Roses), ENJOY!!! [Kindercore]

This seemed like as good a way as any to finally point out that Dan Geller from I am The World Trade Center is in a new band, and that as far as I know, Amy Dykes is doing okay.