Mario Rubalcaba
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Rubalcaba performing with Hot Snakes in 2011
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mario Rubalcaba |
| Also known as | Ruby Mars |
| Born | July 23, 1972 |
| Origin | San Diego, California, United States |
| Genres | Hardcore Punk, Post-hardcore, indie rock, alternative rock, psychedelic rock |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer, skateboarder |
| Instruments | Drum kit, guitar |
| Labels | Headhunter, Workshed, Nemesis, Slamdek, Conversion, Gravity, Touch and Go, Galaxia, Up, Absolutely Kosher, Vagrant, Flapping Jet, Swami, Tee Pee |
| Associated acts | 411, Chicano-Christ, Metroschifter, Clikatat Ikatowi, Thingy, The Black Heart Procession, Sea of Tombs, Rocket from the Crypt, Battalion of Saints, Mannekin Piss, Hot Snakes, Earthless, Sultans, Pinback, Off! |
Mario Rubalcaba (also known by the pseudonym Ruby Mars) is an American drummer from San Diego, notable as a member of numerous rock bands including Clikatat Ikatowi, Thingy, Rocket from the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Earthless, the Sultans, and Off! He has also played on albums by The Black Heart Procession and Pinback and was formerly a professional skateboarder.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Rubalcaba was a professional skateboarder, skating for Team Alva. Though he no longer skates professionally, he does work at Black Box, a skateboarding distribution company and skate park in San Diego.
Rubalcaba's drumming career began in 1990 with the San Diego post-hardcore band 411. The group released the single Say It in 1990 and the album This Isn't Me in 1991 before disbanding. He next joined the hardcore punk band Chicano-Christ, playing on their eponymous 1991 album. In late 1993 Rubalcaba co-started the post-hardcore San Diego "supergroup" Clikatat Ikatowi (after the demise of Heroin), which included guitarist Scott Bartoloni, performing on Orchestrated & Conducted by Clikatat Ikatowi (1996) and August 29 + 30 1995 (1997) including Clikatat Ikatowi's final release, the EP River of Souls (posthumously released in 1998). In 1994 he became involved with the Louisville, Kentucky-based Metroschifter, a recently launched project of singer/guitarist Scott Ritcher. The four band members each lived in different cities and wrote songs by mailing recorded tracks back and forth to each other. The band's first tour in May 1994 was booked before the members had ever met each other in person, and they practiced together only twice before beginning the tour. Their first album, The Metroschifter Capsule, was recorded two weeks after the band formed. Lacking the funds to mix and release it, they took pre-orders for personalized copies and raised enough money to release it on Ritcher's Slamdek label. Rubalcaba recorded two singles with Metroschifter, For the Love of Basic Cable in December 1994 and Number One for a Second in May 1995, before leaving the group on good terms in December 1996.
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