E. RYAN ELLIS


I'm an editor and writer living in Austin, Texas. I've written and edited stories about music, sports, fashion, architecture, history and more. I've settled back in to my home state after eight years in Los Angeles. Previously: editorial director at Malibu Magazine, deputy editor at Flaunt, and editor in chief at AList. In another life, founded a long-gone music blog, a record label, and a radio show.

Recent Projects:
-Writing for Austin Chronicle
-Writing for Austin Monthly
-Writing for Texas Highways
-Writing for Jacques Marie Mage


Writing:
05.23 Jacques Marie Mage, The Man Comes Around : How Folsom Prison Brought Johnny Cash Back From The Brink
05.23 Jacques Marie Mage, Throwing Stones At Stars : The Verve's Place In '90s Alternative Music Is Solidified
05.23 Jacques Marie Mage, The Many Faces Of Johnny Cash : The Man In Black Alternated Between Personas And Collaborators On His Road To Redemption
05.23 Jacques Marie Mage, Life's An Illusion, Love Is The Dream : How Buzzcocks Pushed The Boundaries Of Punk
01.23 Austin Chronicle, Cactus Lee’s New Phase of Folk Realism : With Perfect Middle Hall, Songwriter Kevin Dehan Steps Out Of Honky-Tonk Confines
08.22 Texas Highways, Come In, We're Open : Small Town Shops Are In The Business Of Making Travel Convenient
01.22 Jacques Marie Mage, You Do Not Have Far To Go : Notes On Donovan’s Influences And Enduring Tenderness
12.21 Texas Highways, 21 Texas Albums for 2021
12.21 Jacques Marie Mage, The Counterpoint of Sound and Image : Fumio Hayasaka
10.21 Austin Monthly, The Great Lockhart Exodus
10.21 Austin Chronicle, What We're Listening To Right Now
10.21 Jacques Marie Mage, Striking the Match : Bob Dylan and the Hot White Light of 1965
09.21 Austin Chronicle, Strand of Oaks and the Cadence of Joy
08.21 Jacques Marie Mage, Hubcap Diamond Star Halo : The Powerful Spell of Glam Rock Originator Marc Bolan
08.21 KOOP, Imaginary People by Charlie Martin Is Easy Listening With Real Emotional Depth
07.21 Jacques Marie Mage, The Mystery Inside : 1968 and the Self-Actualization of George Harrison
07.21 Jacques Marie Mage, West Of Normal : Beck's Early 90's Albums And The Significance Of Insignificant Art
03.21 Jacques Marie Mage, LA Union : Jacques Musique
01.21 Jacques Marie Mage, On The Other Side of Midnight : The Enduring Might and Mystery of Scott Walker
12.20 Texas Highways, 20 Texas Albums for 2020
12.20 Jacques Marie Mage, West of Normal : Beck's Early '90s Albums and the Significance of Insignificant Art
07.20 Texas Highways, The Meditative Sounds of New Age Musician J D Emmanuel Will Ease Your Pandemic Anxiety
03.20 Texas Highways, The Alamo Bootleg Delves into Lesser-Known Stories of the Most Famous Battle of the Texas Revolution
07.19 AList, Sprint’s Chief Marketing Officer Roger Solé On 5G, Data Privacy And CMO Visibility
06.19 AList, The Face’s Jason Gonsalves: “I Feel Like Advertising Needs To Earn Its Right To Take People’s Attention”
06.19 AList, Interview With Charlotte Williams, Vice President Of Content At Cannes Lions
05.19 AList, FoxNext CMO: “Our Job As Marketers Used To Stop When We Got Somebody Into The Game, But Now It’s Just Beginning”
05.19 AList, NPR CMO Meg Goldthwaite: “As A Marketer I’m Not Just About Generating Revenue, I Need To Be About Lifting Hearts”
04.19 AList, Visible CMO Minjae Ormes: “One Thing That We Don’t Talk About Enough Is That You Need To Feel Safe To Fail Fast”
03.19 AList, Ericsson’s Helena Norrman: “Trust Is Becoming A More Valuable Currency””
03.19 AList, Michelob Ultra’s ‘Pure Golden Hour’ Brings Calm To SXSW Activations
03.19 AList, Sony Mobile’s VP Don Mesa On The Brand’s Core Messaging And Measuring Brand Effectiveness
01.19 AList, Expert Predictions On The State Of VR And Marketing In 2019
10.18 AList, Advertising Week: CMOs Discuss How To Recover From Failure
06.18 AList, Report: National TV Ad Revenue Up 4 Percent
10.17 Malibu Magazine, Alex Cameron : My Favorite Kinda Fever
10.17 Malibu Magazine, Dave Beran : The Food Speaks
08.17 Malibu Magazine, Porches : All The Way Home
08.17 Malibu Magazine, Anthony Pearson : Creator Destroyer Preserver
06.17 Malibu Magazine, Phoebe Bridgers : Smoke Before Fire
06.17 Malibu Magazine, Kim Jee Woon : See the Trees and the Forests
06.17 Malibu Magazine, Amir Bar-Lev : American Beauties
04.17 Malibu Magazine, Diary of an Oxygen Thief : Interview with an Anonymous Author
04.17 Malibu Magazine, James Gray : Get Lost
04.17 Malibu Magazine, Kadhja Bonet : The Pathos of Things
04.17 Malibu Magazine, Rick Owens : Sitting on the Concrete Throne
02.17 Malibu Magazine, Polly Nooter Roberts : When the Eyes See, the Mouth Remains Quiet
02.17 Malibu Magazine, Charlie Brand : Bigger Splashes
05.16 Flaunt, RiFF RAFF : DONT WORRY ABOUT SOCiETY & RULES THEM THiNGS ARE SPEED BUMPS FOR US HUMAN LAMBORGHiNi’S
05.16 Flaunt, Tim Heidecker : The Magician
03.16 Flaunt, Lucia Ribisi : Sorry, That's Classifed
02.16 Flaunt, Bruce Dern : I Can't Live In Grimness and Then Go Play a Classy Being
09.15 Flaunt, Moses Sumney : Bigger Splashes
04.15 Flaunt, Miles Teller : Cover Story

Editing:
10.17 Malibu Magazine, How We Built This : by Cassandra Nelson
10.17 Malibu Magazine, Mackenzie Davis : by Augustus Britton
10.17 Malibu Magazine, John Maus : by Andrew Stark
08.17 Malibu Magazine, Noomi Rapace : by Felicity Martin
08.17 Malibu Magazine, Jonathan Rado : by Jason Buhrmester
08.17 Malibu Magazine, The War on Drugs' Adam Granduciel : by Andrew Stark
08.17 Malibu Magazine, A Sea of Sunshine : by Hadley Meares
06.17 Malibu Magazine, Edgar Wright : by Valentina Valentini
06.17 Malibu Magazine, Paul Theroux : by Jamie Brisick
06.17 Malibu Magazine, Kevin Morby : by Augustus Britton
04.17 Malibu Magazine, Jake Kean Mayman : by Augustus Britton
04.17 Malibu Magazine, In Conversation : Greg Jackson & Catherine Lacey
04.17 Malibu Magazine, Marc Webb : Interview by Jenny Slate
02.17 Malibu Magazine, Stephen Gaghan : by Jamie Brisick
02.17 Malibu Magazine, By the Shores : by Hadley Meares
08.16 Flaunt, Usher Cover Story : by Dan Piepenbring
02.16 Flaunt, The Cut : by Rem Koolhaas
02.16 Flaunt, Scarlett Johansson Cover Story : by Dayna Evans
11.15 Flaunt, Mia Wasikowska Cover Story : by Luke Goodsell
11.15 Flaunt, Amalia Ulman Cover Story : by William J. Simmons
09.15 Flaunt, Beyoncé Cover Story
09.15 Flaunt, Billboards : by Robert Landau, Michael Jaime-Becerra & Kenny Schachter
02.15 Flaunt, Norman Reedus Cover Story : by Dayna Evans
10.14 Flaunt, You Weren't Invited but Pull Up a Chair : by Ava Duvernay, David Ulin, Maria Bustillos & Lynell George
10.14 Flaunt, Worldview : by Ed Moses
08.14 Flaunt, Mandy Kahn : by Greg McClure
08.14 Flaunt, Aaron Paul Cover Story: by Greg McClure
07.14 Flaunt, I Saw the Number 15 in Gold : by J.D. Daniels
05.14 Flaunt, Jared Leto Cover Story : by Gregg LaGambina
05.14 Flaunt, Entering the Lists : by J.D. Daniels
05.14 Flaunt, The Meteoric Rise of Blue : by Dr. James Fox