Music
Fuzzy Slippers
Anxiety-Punk band Fuzzy Slippers released it’s first full-length album, “let’s get nervous”, in early 2025. The band’s music mixes humor and political activism with high-energy, shoutable songs and an eclectic approach to genre. Ryan is the band’s guitarist and trombonist, and one of it’s songwriters, and served as a recording engineer and mixer on the album.
Birding
Birding is a 5-piece rock band that draws from 90’s Alternative, Emo, and American Folk to create music that is dynamic, exciting, and and earnest. Ryan Shello is the primary songwriter and bandleader and served as producer and recording engineer for the recording of their debut EP, “january'“.
This Kills Me
Ryan is the bassist for This Kills Me (https://thiskillsme.net/), a Punkish Alt-Rock project with Matt Riggle, former member of 41 Gorgeous Blocks. Their Debut album, mixed by Bill Stevenson of the Descendents, was released in March 2019. Since then, This Kills Me has toured up and down the east coast, and played regularly in the Philadelphia area.
Cortez Cortez
Cortez Cortez is Ryan’s now-defunct experimental/art rock band. Cortez Cortez, named after Neil Young Song Cortez the Killer, was a 3-piece rock group with a penchant for experimentation, whether it be with noise and unusual recording technique, or playful deconstructions of the pop song structure.
Hidden Machines
Hidden Machines is Ryan’s solo Chiptune project, written on two gameboys with the program LSDJ. Hidden Machines’ second EP was released in 2015.
Scoring/Soundtrack/Sound Design
Marina on Mars - Outpost4
Ryan has been working with multimedia Design Studio Outpost4 on their upcoming project Marina on Mars. Two tracks have been released thus far.
Game Jams
What Guns are What Do? is a small, informal game development group that has been making games as a group since Ludum Dare 30, back in August 2014. Ryan has worked in several of the group’s Game Jam projects: