I am the founder of Superhero Artist Management, representing several bands, including Bleeding Through, Demon Hunter, Throwdown and Tiger Army. I have been a regular contributer to Alternative Press for over ten years. I have worked as an on-air correspondent, writer and producer for MSNBC, E!, MTV, MySpace TV, Current TV and FEARnet. I have also appeared as a commentator on Fuse and VH1. In addition to AP, my writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Premiere.com, OC Weekly, Punk Planet, Metal Maniacs, Circus, Decibel and of course, Buzznet. I have produced DVD content for Lionsgate, Warner Bros., EMI Music and other clients. I am the vocalist for the Misfits tribute band Die Die My Darling and am working on new musical projects. "Ryan Downey has established a history of breaking some good scoops in the last few years, and you could certainly do worse than bookmark [him] to check in on." -- Ain't It Cool READ MY BLOG!

& Jr., A.F.I., Adam & The Ants, Agalloch, Alice In Chains, Anathema, And in no particular order: a-ha, And many more., Anthrax (through Sound Of White Noise), Bad Brains, Badly Drawn Boy, Baroness, Bauhaus, Billy Idol / Generation X, Black Flag, Black Sabbath (esp, Bleeding Through, Blur, Candelmass, Carrie Underwood, Celtic Frost, Chamberlain / Split Lip, Coalesce, Coldplay, Conway Twitty, Counting Crows, Dark Angel, Death, Demon Hunter, Depeche Mode, Followed by: Metallica, George Michael, Guns N' Roses, Hank Williams Sr, Hanoi Rocks, Integrity, Into Another, Iron Maiden / Bruce Dickinson, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Judge, Living Sacrifice, Megadeth, Miranda Lambert, Misfits / Samhain / Danzig, My Dying Bride, Neil Diamond, Nekromantix, Nevermore, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.., Oasis, Paloalto, Paradise Lost, Placebo, Portishead, Pulp, R.E.M., Rain Like The Sound Of Trains, Robbie Williams, Sanctuary, Soul Embraced, St, Stone Temple Pilots, Telecast, The Aggrolites, The Cro-Mags, The Cure, The Doves, The Gates Of Slumber, The Quakes, The Verve, Throwdown, Tiger Army, Type O Negative, Vitus, Voivod, War Of Ages, Waylon Jennings, Zao, w/ Dio)

American History X, Fletch, Gone Baby Gone, Good Will Hunting, Roman Holiday.., Super Troopers, The Crow, Tommy Boy, WAY too many to list!

Angel, Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined version), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Countdown with Keith Olberman, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with John Steward, The Office (US version), The X-Files

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, And plenty more..., Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Free the Animals: The Story of the Animal Liberation Front, Ingrid Newkirk, Interview with a Vampire & The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, Jay Bakker, LOTS of children's books, Lewis, Son of a Preacher Man: My Search for Grace in the Shadows, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, The Bible (NLT), The Hobbit by J.R.R, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Tolkein, Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert