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Aaron Detroit, though best known as a musician and all-around rock scenester, first came to be noticed as a zine writer during his mid-teens in 1992.

His transgressive style of prose, a mix of fantasy and reality often touching on themes such as rape, power imbalance, and frequently death, was found in his long-running Swirlies self-publication and later in Homocore Detroit, a publication for one of the many Homocore chapters active in the early to mid-1990s. Swirlies also included many memorable interviews including those with 7 Year Bitch and Babes in Toyland.

His musical career began in the No Wave and Hardcore Punk scenes of the mid-1990s in Michigan and the Northwest. His bands included Martha Dumptruck (named after a character from the 1989 film Heathers) and the spoof-metalcore band Miss Thing.

In 1997, Aaron popped up in San Francisco as a lead vocalist for the dark-punk band The Little Deaths which also featured Mikel Delgado of Cinnamon Imperials and later Whysol Lane, Scott Bradley of Bumblescrump, and, initially, Trixie of Kreviss. His style was informed by feminine sensibilities balanced by a masculine yelp.The Little Deaths became part of the San Francisco Bay-Area's late-90's musical renaissance which spawned bands like Subtonix, The Phantom Limbs, Erase Errata, The Vanishing, and the 7 Year Bitch offshoot, Clone. The Little Deaths toured and played shows with bands such as The Need, Le Tigre, The Haggard and Imperial Teen extensively until 2000. They released one critically-acclaimed album entitled Destination: Sexy on New York-based Queercore label Heartcore Records in 1999. The Little Deaths went through several line-up changes before disbanding in 2000.

Between 2000 and 2002, Aaron performed several performance art pieces in San Francisco with his shortlived and mostly electronic Dark wave musical project, Ghost Hips, and with former Little Deaths guitarist Clay Walsh.

In 2002, he appeared in the Queer Punk issue of infamous punk publication Maximum RocknRoll. Included was an interview with Cookie Tuff of Subtonix and Aaron, as well as his participation in a round-table style discussion between several queer-identified musicians, including Martin Sorrondeguy of Los Crudos and Limp Wrist, and Gary Fembot and Iraya Robles of Sta-Prest.

Between 2002 and 2004, he played synthesizers and sang in Secret Skin, a short-lived Rozz Williams-inspired collaboration with Cookie Tuff.

Now living and working in Los Angeles, CA, Aaron Detroit is currently working with Dame Darcy in the Dark Wave band Death By Doll ( whose CD entitled Gasoline was released by Emperor Penguin Recordings on October 31, 2006 ) and on various upcoming film projects.

"I Feel Like 2001 is 1981, with the super-fast advancement of technology, art damage, people doing lots of coke, all this nihilism. And it scares me, and I want to talk about that and what my identity as a human being is. So much of what was written about The Little Deaths was about our sexualities...I never got asked much beyond that...it got irritating...it was really boring." From the March 2002 issue of MRR.

• Cholesterol (single), with Martha Dumptruck (1997) released by Bitch Kitty Inc.
• Destination: Sexy (album), with The Little Deaths (1999) released by Heartcore Records
• Nostalgia Del Buio (compilation), with Secret Skin (2004) released by Cochon
• Gasoline (album), with Death By Doll (2006) released by Emperor Penguin Recordings

• Death By Doll Home Page
• SFBG Article with Aaron Detroit Interview
• The Little Deaths Home Page