Aaron Detroit

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Aaron Detroit is a zinester and musician.

Aaron began publishing zines while in his mid-teens. His most notable zine was Swirlies, which first came out in 1992 and featured interviews with bands such as 7 Year Bitch and Babes In Toyland, as well as Aaron's writing. The zine was published in Detroit, Michigan.

Aaron's next contributed to Homocore Detroit, a publication released by the Detroit chapter of the many Homocore groups that existed in the 1990's across the United States.

Aaron has been in a number of bands. Beginning in the mid nineties, his first band, Martha's Dumptruck, released one single; after playing in this and other bands, Aaron relocated to San Francisco in 1997. There, he began singing for the The Little Deaths. The group put out the album Destination: Sexy on Heartcore Records in 1999, but then broke up the next year. In 2002, Aaron was one of the musicians featured in Maximum Rock N Roll's "Queer Punk" issue. The same year, Aaron began singing and playing synthesizer in the band Secret Skin.

After that band ended, Aaron moved to Los Angeles, where he now lives and plays synthesizer in the band Death By Doll with Dame Darcy. The group's first album, Gasoline, was released in 2007.