Dan Rico

Hailing from Chicago, the son of a Mexican-American Elvis-obsessed father and flower-child mother, Rico made a name for himself playing in and producing myriad local rock and punk bands over the years, including EGO. In 2015 EGO released a 13 album concept project entitled “The Search for Ophiuchus” based on the signs of the zodiac. That year Rico also released his first solo album, “Endless Love,” and was picked by Shit in Can Records, a boutique french label. In 2018 Rico moved to New York City and earnestly began blending more electronic elements into his power-pop rock songs. A zealous and explosive performer on stage, and a wily but ingenious craftsman in the studio, Dan Rico continues to subvert expectation, experiment, and entertain. BULL MOON is the title of Rico's upcoming fifth album. With a fondness for the boybands of his youth, but spurning the ultra-polish of glitzy billboard slop, Dan Rico has conducted a sensual sonic ooze to pour into your ears and tickle the crevices of your brain. Littered with nuanced warbles of time-defying delay, insistent vintage drum machines, campfire acoustic guitars, and majestic fuzzy electric ear worms- and not to mention silvery vocals that split the difference between Prince and Marc Bolan- “Bull Moon” at once feels nostalgic, familiar, and rebelliously futuristic. Dan also plays cowrites and performs in musical puppet band Maximum Love Timeline, surf rock band High Waisted and plays guitar in psychedelic dance band Ista.