Team Ruby

Meet Team Ruby

Ruby's has a team of friendly music fans waiting to help you find the latest from your favorite artists or discover great new (or new to you) music. Meet the members of Team Ruby here below and find out a little more about each of our staff...

Mel

First Record: WAR - Low Rider 7" single

First Concert: The Ventures (my brother snuck me into a nightclub when I was 13)

10 Albums I Love (in alphabetical order):

Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Level 42 - Level Best
ELO - Out of the Blue
ELO - Time
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill
Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce
Steely Dan - Aja
The The - Mind Bomb

3 albums Mel thinks more people should know

Kate Bush - Before The Dawn (2016)

Holy cow, this entire live box set is like a theater play for your ears. Fans will hear their favorites, b sides and tracks from her less commercial work sewn into a nearly three hour auditory experience. Bring a friend.

Lola Young - I'm Only F***ing Myself (2025)

Show me a more passionate soul on the planet. Her raging desperation is portrayed in each songs she belts. Jeepers.

Steely Dan - Greatest Hits (1978)

Timeless, you know every song, and it never gets old.

Rowan

First Record: A 1959 record called Railroad Sounds - Steam and Diesel: The Sounds Of A Vanishing Era, but my first MUSIC record was Mend, Move On by Trophy Eyes

First Concert: Fall Out Boy in 2009 With Cobra Starship, Metro Station, All Time Low, and Hey Monday

10 Albums I Love (in alphabetical order):

Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan
Drug Church - Cheer
Logic - Under Pressure
Murder City Devils - In Name And Blood
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Reverend Horton Heat - The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of
Single Mothers - Negative Qualities
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Trophy Eyes - Chemical Miracle

3 albums Rowan thinks more people should know

bootlicker - lick the boot, lose your teeth - album cover artwork

Bootlicker - Lick the Boot Lose Your Teeth (2022)

Rat Cage - Screams From the Cage (2020)

School Drugs - Funeral Arrangements (2025)

Calder

First Record: Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$

First Concert: Bumbershoot in the mid 2000's

10 Albums I Love (in alphabetical order):

Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Gal Costa - India
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Low - Quorum
N*E*R*D - In Search Of

3 albums Calder thinks more people should know

New Orthodox - Bull Market On Corn (2025)

WA state-raised Nicholas Merz. Solo pedal steel through walls of distortion with a dry voice that feels incredibly direct. Engineered by Steve Albini.

Kassa Overall - Animals (2023)

One of the most innovative records of the 2020's from this Seattle-based unique songwriter and one of the greatest performers I've seen. Features guests incl. Danny Brown, Lil B, and Vijay Iyer.

Lowercase - Kill The Lights (1997)

A 90's gem that lives somewhere in the middle of a post-hardcore, noise rock, and slowcore field and does each of these very well.

Amber

First Record: Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

First Concert: Weezer @ Fingerprints in Long Beach, CA

10 Albums I Love (in alphabetical order):

Bjork - Debut
Caravan Palace - <|o_o|>
Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend
The Cure - Head on the Door
The Dollyrots - The Dollyrots
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Ke$ha - Animal
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Portishead - Dummy

3 albums Amber thinks more people should know

Deee-Lite - Dewdrops in the Garden (1994)

You know these New York icons from “Groove is in the Heart”, but you need to also know this fun, dancey electronic follow-up.

Rizzle Kicks - Roaring 20's (2013)

"Skip To The Good Bit", with this UK-based upbeat hip-hop album to keep you moving and grooving all night long.

Leer - SPRINGBREAKNOPARENTS (2013)

San Jose, CA emo prodigies - scream-y punk with instrumentals that you can feel in your skull. Let your inner teenager release their anger.

Angus

First Record: Rush - Moving Pictures (an original pressing I found up in Canada!)

First Concert: Green Day at White River Amphitheater, WA

10 Albums I Love (in alphabetical order):

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Green Day - Dookie
Green Day - American Idiot
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
The Kinks - Lola vs Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Parliament/Funkadelic - Mothership Connection
Pile - Magic Isn't Real

3 albums Angus thinks more people should know

Murlocs - Calm Ya Farm (2023)

Looking for hard-driving harmonica and questions about where you are in life? Look no further than psychedelic blues rock of The Murlocs.

King Stingray - For The Dreams (2024)

If you have ever listened to a funk song and thought "this needs more didgeridoo?", then King Stingray is the band for you.

Yothu Yindi - Tribal Voice (1991)

The inspiration for many bands rocking the airwaves in the land down under. Check out "treaty" - a song about unity and fighting for change that's needed.