Readers, let us pause together and take a gander at The Ruby Suns’ MySpace profile. You’ll notice under their “Influences” section a picture of Bruce Willis from his role in Die Hard juxtaposed with an image of Thin Mints Girl Scouts cookies. Scroll just a bit further down and under the “Sounds Like” section, you’ll see a picture of an odd-looking burrito instead of a list of bands or genres that The Ruby Suns emulate. Either they really like food, or these New Zealanders have a great sense of humor. It’s probably the latter, though, since their MySpace headline reads: “It’s Only Music!” It’s definitely refreshing to see an up-and-coming band that doesn’t let the blog hype inflate their egos.

On a different note, I’m currently watching some late-night TV as I type this story, and a Microsoft Windows Vista commercial just came on with none other than The Ruby Suns’ “Oh, Mojave” playing in the background. Hmm, it may be “only music” to the Suns, but it’s music that pays the bills for all the jet-setting they’ll be doing the rest of this year.

Oh, Bill Gates:

09.24.08 - Seattle, WA - Mars Bar 10.21.08 - New York, NY - CMJ 10.24.08 - New York, NY - CMJ 10.25.08 - New York, NY - CMJ 10.31.08 - Oxford, UK - Zodiac 11.01.08 - Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy 11.02.08 - Galway, Ireland - Rosin Dubh 11.03.08 - Cork, Ireland - Cyprus Avenue 11.05.08 - London, UK - White Heat 11.06.08 - Sheffield, UK - Fuzz Club @ The Uni 11.07.08 - Bristol, UK - Louisana 11.08.08 - Cardiff, Wales - UWIC (Tommy’s Bar) 11.09.08 - Brighton, UK - The Albert 11.10.08 - Manchester, UK - Ruby’s Lounge 11.12.08 - Tourcoing, France - Grand Mix & 11.14.08 - Paris, France - Point Ephemere & 11.15.08 - Le Havre, France - Cabaret Electric & 11.17.08 - Frankfurt, Germany - Nachtleben & 11.18.08 - Hamburg, Germany - Headcrash & 11.19.08 - Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall & 11.20.08 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen & 11.21.08 - Berlin, Germany - Knaack & 11.22.08 - Prague, Czech Republic - Akropolis & 11.23.08 - Munich, Germany - 59-1 & 11.24.08 - Vienna, Austria - Chelsea & 12.04.08 - Auckland, Australia - King’s Arms 12.05.08 - Sydney, Australia - Spectrum 12.06.08 - Melbourne, Australia - Northcote Social Club 12.12.08 - Meredith, Victoria - Meredith Music Festival 12.29.08 - Gisbourne, New Zealand - Rhythm & Vines Festival eternity

& The Dodos