Launched in 2007 and active for over a decade, Ryan’s Rock Show chronicled the evolution of modern rock, metal, and hardcore through hundreds of in-depth interviews. Created and produced by Ryan Minic, the series became one of the few continuous audiovisual records of the alternative and heavy-music landscape that spanned the late 2000s and 2010s.
Emerging in the final years of the MySpace era—before smartphones, social media, and podcasting became part of everyday life—Ryan’s Rock Show captured artists in a transitional moment for music culture. It was a time when CDs were vanishing, digital downloads were replacing record stores, and streaming services were only beginning to appear. Musicians such as Korn, The Mars Volta, and Skrillex spoke candidly about creativity, survival, and the changing realities of making a living from music.
The archive bridges the gap between print-zine journalism and today’s algorithmic media, preserving a generation of voices that might otherwise have vanished as magazines folded and early websites disappeared. Though the series concluded in 2018, its complete archive remains online as a permanent resource for music fans, historians, and future documentarians—an enduring snapshot of how heavy music sounded, looked, and spoke in the first decades of the twenty-first century.