Metro Times | Chris Handyside

Pay As You Choose: Why the eclectic Beehive label mattersnew

Since its founding in 2007 by Steve Nawara, Beehive has digitally released a consistent — and consistently eclectic — selection of sounds, a bona fide representation of Detroit’s fertile music scene, from funk to noisy-electro, country and folk to space rock. And it’s all available for download on a pay-as-you-choose basis.

Metro Times | Chris Handyside | 12-02-2011 | Music

Tags: garage rock, digital music, Steve Narawa, Detroit music scene

Quack! Media Plans on Complete Musical Success in This New Recession Economynew

In an era when the bloated infrastructure of the music industry as we have known it for the last 50 years is imploding, it's refreshing to see a back-to-basics approach succeed, as in the case of the Ann Arbor multimedia company.

Metro Times | Chris Handyside | 11-17-2009 | Music

Tags: Al McWilliams, Quack! Media, music industry

Garage Greats The Gories Returnnew

The unskilled Detroit band helped alter the course of rock 'n' roll ... by accident. So why did they disband too soon?

Metro Times | Chris Handyside | 06-30-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Danny Kroha, Mick Collins, Peggy O'Neil, The Gories, The Dirtbombs, Detroit, garage rock

An Author With a Major New Novel Rises Quietly From the Workaday Motor Citynew

Michael Zadoorian is a writer who has a true love of his hometown (as you'll read) and the kind of 24-7, "why not?" work ethic that has defined Detroit artists from Berry Gordy to Elmore Leonard, Glenn Barr to Eminem.

Metro Times | Chris Handyside | 02-24-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: fiction, Michael Zadoorian, The Leisure Seeker