Melodic and guitar driven, Super City is known for their hooky pop sound that blends heavy rock elements and danceability, all with band choreography that results in killer live performances. This Baltimore band expertly crafts guitar and synth earworms that thrive on the creative tension between bombastic rock and roll and stylized movements. Their structures and melodies leave no room for a dull track. At times soothing and inviting, at times posturing and timeless, Dan Ryan and Greg Wellham vocally guide this pop band into a new, heavy, and beguiling territory that is both memorable and brash with their new full-length LP ‘In The Midnight Room,’ available everywhere on October 20th via SofaBurn Records.

Super City is Dan Ryan (lead vocals, guitar), Greg Wellham (lead vocals, guitar), Brian Brunsman (bass, vocals), Jon Birkholz (keys, guitar, vocals), and Ian Viera (drums & vocals).

Super City has played with a variety of national acts including Black Pumas, Robert Randolph, Parquet Courts, J Roddy Walston, Bombino, Margaret Glaspy, and many others.

A Baltimore jazz quintet striving for compositionally-creative pieces. Comprised of Dan Ryan, Savino Palumbo (piano), Alex Weber (bass), Derrick Michaels(tenor saxohpone), and Mike Kuhl (drums). The music features tight compositions, adventurous solos, and a very high level of musicianship. The quintet came out with two albums in 2016, entitled 'Superposition' and 'Leonard'. 'Superposition' is an album made up of five compositions their audience is used to hearing live, with composers Dan Ryan, Savino Palumbo, and Alex Weber all contributing to the album. 'Leonard' is a three-movement suite written by Dan Ryan that involves Talking Points as well as additional brass and strings. The group has most recently performed at Baltimore Soundstage opening up for acclaimed metal bands Cynic and Atheist. 

A five-piece guitar ensemble featuring compositions by Dan Ryan. The band played their first concert at An Die Musik in the summer of 2023, which heard an hour and fifteen minutes of original guitar music that employs innovative techniques for guitar ensemble. 

Dan Ryan has been performing with BODEGA since 2018, playing on the 2022 album Broken Equipment and EP Xtra Equipment. Broken Equipment received praise from NME, Pitchfork, Guitar.com, and many others. Since 2018 Ryan has embarked on 3 national tours as well as 2 extensive European tours, opening for bands like Spoon and The Kills. 

From Guitar.com ————

“‘Bodega’s ace is Baltimore-based guitar maestro Daniel Ryan. “Our secret weapon on this record is Dan,” Hozie says. “This is his first time recording with us, although he’s been in the band a long time, doing a bunch of tours with us from 2019. Lately I’ve been driving down to Baltimore to write with him. I bring him finished songs – the words and structure are done, the chords are there but I don’t know how the guitar should go, and I never know what the guitar will do until I work it out with Dan.” “Dan just has a really great melodic sensibility,” says Hozie. “He’s kind of a guitar virtuoso. It’s amazing to play with someone that good.’”

The Lunar Year is a Philly based psych-punk art group led by front-person Katie Hackett.

They have released two albums (Herodias, 2017) (katie bird, 2020) and are finishing a third due out next year.

Hackett has also scored for film, having been featured at the London International Animation Festival, Viet Film Fest, and MAM Festival. Her songs have been featured on podcasts and TV shows including Chris Gethard’s “New Jersey us the World,” and MTV’s Teen Mom/Teen Mom 2

Dan Ryan has been playing with the group for two years, since they performed on Philadelphia's 'Left of the Dial' live in-studio session. They have since gone on to release singles "Don't Kiss Strangers" and "Mist of the Teal Mara", both of which Ryan contributed guitar parts for. In 2023, The Lunar Year played their first Baltimore shows at Metro Baltimore opening for the Adjective Animal album release show, as well as The Crown. 

$100 Girlfriend is the project of Baltimore singer/bassist/songwriter Melody Easton. Easton coined the genre "Gloom Pop", which is fitting for the dark nature of the music and lyrics paired with the traditional pop structure. In 2019 the band released the EP 'Easy to Please' along with a music video directed by Dan Ryan for the first single 'Paper'. The trio is comprised of Easton, Dan Ryan (drums), and Jon Birkholz (guitar). 

Adjective Animal is the solo project of rhythm section player Jon Birkholz. While spending time playing in a handful of bands around Baltimore, MD, Jon realized that he needed an outlet for music he was writing on his own on a regular basis. The format, like the band name, comes from a standard two guitar bass and drums rock group but the music explores the line between digital and analog. Influenced by electronic music on the one hand and the use of effects on the other, the songs usually start out on drum machine and synths and are then the parts are recreated with live instruments.

Dan Ryan has been performing/recording with Adjective Animal since 2015, and is featured heavily on the three full-length albums 'Escape or Erase', 'America's Got Talons', and the 2023 release 'Every Moment (is) a Portrait'. The most recent album features many Baltimore artists including Melody Easton, Nina Gala, Jarrett Gilgore, Caroline Davis, and Walsh Kunkel. 

The brain child of Dan Ryan and Jon Birkholz, this jazz group got its name from its weekly gig at the now closed Bohemian Coffeehouse. The group featured compositions by Ryan and Birkholz and in 2012 recorded the album 'Housewarming' on Reoccuring Dream Records. The most common lineup included tenor saxophonist Derrick Michaels, alto saxophonist Jarrett Gilgore, bassist Brian Brunsman, and drummer Sam Balcom. The group was also known to do live, improvised film-scoring as part of a series at The Crown. 

Dan Ryan has been contributing to multiple Baltimore projects for a decade and can always be found collaborating and contributing to peoples' recordings.