Music

In every issue

Editor's Letter — Why music?
Dear Bitch
Love It/Shove It
Bitch Reads
Suggested Listening
Where to Bitch
Field Testing — What a frat guy in an airport thinks of Bitch

Plus

||| CosmoGIRL! Redux
||| Grrrls redux
||| Publishing drama
||| GhostWorld's Dan Clowes
||| Summer music-fest roundup

Features

||| The Dewey-Eyed Decimal System —Checking out librarians on film
||| Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific —Queering the story of female jealously
||| Master of Her Domain — An interview with sex edutainer Carol Queen
||| Your Mother's Bitch Magazine —The '80s rock zine that dared to ask, "If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we send Greil Marcus?"
||| For Black Girls Who Have Considered Barry Manilow When Motley Crue is Enuf — A Black Feminist Metalhead Speaks
||| Sir Elton John and the Night Of the Roundtable —A conversation on music with Windy Chien, Alison Faith Levy, Katy St. Clair, and Oliver Wang
||| Q&A&R —A chat with major label exec Cheryl Pawelski
||| Hello Dolly...and K.D., and Loretta... — Feminism and country music: Who knew?
||| Boy Band-O-Rama —A concise, annotated chronological history of this always-fascinating and surprising music-industry phenomenon
||| I'm A Writer, Not A Lover —What do you do when you get an unwelcome backstage pass?
||| They Just Happen to Put Out Really Good Music — A visit to Mr. Lady, everybody's favorite queer/feminist/punk record and video-art distro