May 18, 2010: Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version) will be available digitally here

April 19, 2010: Pre-orders for Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version) are now available through our online store . All orders that include Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version) will ship as soon as CDs arrive.

April 1, 2010: No joke! Matthew Ryan will open for John Hiatt on select dates in April and May on his U.S. tour. Visit the tour page for a full list of dates.

March 23, 2010: In between tours, Matthew Ryan and American Fine Arts Photographer Jack Spencer collaborated on a video for his song “The World Is”

March 11, 2010: Checkout the Live performance on NBC 10 in Philadelphia! here

March 9, 2010: Checkout the Live performance on Fox Morning News Boston, here

February 16, 2010: Dear Lover will be available in-stores exclusively through Junketboy/CIMS.

November 19, 2009: Sirius/XM Radio ads several songs from Matthew Ryan's Dear Lover to The Loft and several other stations Once again, Sirius/XM Radio Chn 50 "The Loft" has jumped right on board to support a new Matthew Ryan release. Tune in to catch moments of "Dear Lover" on the radio waves.
Here's what Mike Marrone, host of "The Loft" had to say: “He continues to bring heartfelt emotion to rock and roll, one day soon I hope the rest of the world will wake up to the genius that is Matthew Ryan."
To request songs from Matthew Ryan's Dear Lover go on XM go here:http://www.sirius.com/theloft

October 27, 2009: Dear Lover is now available at all fine digital music stores world-wide: iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, etc...

October 27, 2009: Dear Lover CDs are now available at matthewryanonline.com/store. Mail order CDs will arrive 5-7 days from date of purchase, depending on the speed of the U.S. Postal Service.

Coming February 16, 2010, Dear Lover CDs will be available at independent record stores in the U.S. and abroad through CIMS/Junket Boy. For a list of stores in the U.S., please visit: http://www.cimsmusic.com/stores/index.php

October 26, 2009: Check out an exclusive stream of Dear Lover on Blurt beginning tomorrow!
http://www.blurt-online.com

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The latest buzz on Dear Lover

“The Movies In Matthew Ryan’s Mind” as exposed in VANITY FAIR

"...a great new excuse to discover a writer who pens love songs as tough as Jim Thompson novels... Some rockers must scream when they plumb emotions at this depth. Ryan rarely has to raise his voice above a raspy whisper." read USA Today review

“An insightful artist with an intuitive ability to capture mood and emotion, he writes dirge-like melodies that hang like a shroud, each draped in a dense atmospheric overlay. Dear Lover varies little from that template, a haunting, eerily beautiful dissertation on the intricacies of intimacy. read Blurt review

“This album is a rich, absorbing listen.” read the Newark Star Ledger review"On Dear Lover, Matthew Ryan comes at love from a dramatic angle." read the Nashville Scene feature

American Songwriter “Writer of the Week”
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/01/matthew-ryan/

Jam of the Day “The Wilderness”
http://www.speakersincode.com/2010/01/jam-of-day-matthew-ryan-wilderness.html

WFPK Louisville “Album of the Year”
http://www.wfpk.org/2009/12/31/laura-shines-top-picks-for-albums-of-2009/

“He continues to bring heartfelt emotion to rock and roll, one day soon I hope the rest of the world will wake up to the genius that is Matthew Ryan.”
- Mike Marrone, Program Director Sirius/XM Chn 50 “The Loft”

“Top Ten Albums of 2009” and one of the “25 Essential Songwriters of the Decade” – Jason Gonulsen, Glide Magazine

“With each new album Ryan continues to demonstrate his boundless talent.” - #6 “Album of 2009” Mayer Danzig, Twangville