With friends from high school Jonah Bergman and Steve Bonnell, Ryann formed the band Schoolyard Heroes.

[4] Ryann started a similar band, Blood Cells, with Jonah Bergman and two new members in early 2010.

[5][6] After only a few shows together, Ryann left the band and moved to New York, where she started producing pop music through her own label The Lonely Hearts Singles Club.

Ryann played similar pop music with Mark Gajadhar, drummer of The Blood Brothers, as the duo Weekend.

She released an edited version of her Ph.D. thesis called "Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video" in April 2019.