Dan Sullivan (musician)
American musician
Dan Sullivan is an American indie rock musician based in Chicago, Illinois. He started his musical career with self-titled (albeit mirrored) folk rock band Nad Navillus, (also styled NadNavillus), releasing three albums from March 1999 to November 2002, then reviving the project again in 2021. He was also a member of the short-lived post-rock project A-Z Consolidated, releasing one EP.
Sullivan was also known as a guitarist in Jason Molina's band Songs: Ohia from 2000 to 2003 and plays on the seminal "Magnolia Electric Company" LP. He founded metal band Arriver in 2005 but left the group in 2025.
He is a designer and woodworker and his company Navillus Woodworks was selected to provide chairs, stools and tables for the restaurant at the center of The Bear.
01Personal life
He is married to Puerto Rican artist Edra Soto, and the two are frequent creative collaborators.
02Discography
- NadNavillus, "Here All Long/First Light" (released February 2026)
- NadNavillus, "Upper Constant" (released April 2025)
- NadNavillus, "Forgotten Portraits" (released June 2023)
- Arriver, "Azimuth" (released May 2023)
- Arriver, "Emeritus" (released May 2016)
- Arriver, "TSUSHIMA" Bloodlust 170 (released February 2012)
- Rabid Rabbit "Czarny Sen" Bloodlust 169 (released January 2012)
- Arriver, "Center Down" Nodak 006 split 7-inch (released June 2011)
- Arriver, "Simon Mann EP" BecRec (released February 2010)
- Arriver, "Vanlandingham and Zone" Proshop (released 2006)
- The American Pringles "1968-1970" Proshop (released June 2006)
- The American Pringles "The Pringles Are Coming!" ProShop 015 (released June 2005)
- The Butchershop Quartet "The Rite of Spring" G4CD7701 (released April 2004)
- Nad Navillus "Iron Night" Jag51 (released November 2002)
- Nad Navillus "Show Your Face" Jagjaguwar (released November 2001)
- A-Z Consolidated s/t ProShop 008 (released October 1999)
- Nad Navillus s/t ProShop 005 (released March 1999)
- Cockpokalypse "C'est Cockpokalypse" (cassette release 1996)
- Cockpokalypse "Big Gun Party Fun" (cassette release 1995)
- Yakamashi "Shot Out Your Asshole" (cassette release 1995)
- Cockpokalypse "Answer Lies" (cassette release 1993)
- Wrektomb s/t (cassette release 1993)
- Nad Navillus "On the Ground" (cassette release 1993)
On other releases
- Songs: Ohia "Live: Vanquishers" SC454 (released October 2024)
- Dylan Posa and Three Cheers For One Dead Man "Executive Shirts '79/The Nairu Report" 7-inch Northern Varieties NV03 (2006)
- Dave LaCrone and the Mistletones "The New Old-Fashioned Way" (December 2003)
- Songs: Ohia "The Magnolia Electric Company" SC76 (released February 2003)
- Parker Paul "Wingfoot" Jag28 (released October 2001)
- Songs: Ohia “Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma” Paper Cup/White and Black (released September 2001)
- Joan of Arse "Distant Hearts A Little Closer" slab4 (released September 2001)
- Steve Fanagan "There is Hope" mango010 (released July 2001)
- Songs: Ohia/Glen Hansard split 7-inch RR7-006 (released December 2000)
- Skeeter Pete & the Sullivan Mountain Boys s/t Bert 012 (released April 2000)
Compilations
- An International Compilation "Performance #1" ITC 8 (released July 2002)
- Tract Records "Eye of the Beholder II" TR002 (released October 2002)
Sources and credits
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