The Ruby Suns
Fight Softly

The Ruby Suns’ third record Fight Softly-the first on acclaimed indie-backer Sub Pop-is a lot of things: happy, evocative, curious, and experimental....

In 1986, Paul Simon didn?t know that a child had recently been born who would one day play music as the Ruby Suns, but he already knew what Hell was l...

Ryan McPhun of the Ruby Suns is a bit of an anomaly in the music environment he inhabits. Where the far off sounds of exotic locales and the trend-hop...

Ryan McPhun, once a Californian and now a citizen of New Zealand, holds the reins and controls the stick shift on this band. A studio and gear geek, M...

Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3The Ruby SunsFight SoftlyMemphis Industries2010Like a best-of 2009 mixtape, New Zealand's the Ruby Suns combine d...

The magnificent third album from the New Zealand-based Californian expat Ryan McPhun explodes with the sunny delight that accompanies boundary-free ex...

On Fight Softly, The Ruby Suns leader Ryan McPhun goes it alone, writing, performing and producing these 10 songs virtually solo. Sadly, along with hi...

After 2007’s ‘Sea Lion’, the New Zealand experimental poppers return with their third album. In the interim, it seems Ryan McPhun and his chums have d...

I think of The Ruby Suns and I think of sunshine and good times. I think of how I used to feel slightly in awe as a teenager on the rare occasions whe...

Pop music success requires good timing-- no local or unsigned band will debate this-- and the Ruby Suns have shitty timing. Their breakthrough album, ...