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2006 Stories by Jean Carey

• Scare Premium

  published July 27, 2006

  On a recent Wednesday, The Bitch checked out an event called the Lo McXimo de la Música concert series preview at Studio A. Why? Because she... More >>

• Graham CRACKer Crust Bust

  published July 13, 2006

  When The Bitch heard that employees of three prominent CocoWalk eateries had been busted for running informal pharmacological operations, she got... More >>

• Ghost Repeater

  published July 6, 2006

  The Bitch was executing a Tokyo Drift-style parking-lot maneuver this past Wednesday night, which caused the Wire album embedded in the... More >>

• Stainless Steel Providers

  published July 6, 2006

  By 1985, New Wave music was on the decline. With the rise of jangle-pop and hair metal, teenagers who once proudly waved the New Romantic flag... More >>

• The Drink-'Em-Up World Cup

  published June 29, 2006

  Not long after noon on June 11 at the Playwright Irish Pub in South Beach, the predominantly pro-American crowd was silent. It had nothing to root... More >>

• Green Velvet

  published June 29, 2006

  The insistent bomp of crunk meets a disco beat and is tempered by techno's distanced cool. Green Velvet shares the anthemic tendencies of label... More >>

• Denying the Day's Demise

  published June 22, 2006

  Lip augmentation, probably the most common cosmetic procedure performed in South Florida, is trickier than the proliferation of Paris pouts here... More >>

• Sissy

  published June 22, 2006

  Though the Knife's forthcoming Silent Shout will soon overtake Sissy's All Under in the... More >>

• Opportunity Cost

  published June 15, 2006

  The words epic and classic — favorite Bitch exclamations for happenings with high and very low extremes of social entertainment... More >>

• Metal Machine Music

  published June 15, 2006

  Like thoroughbred horses, industrial music has only a handful of forebears, so when the Big Three — Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and Front Line... More >>

• An Andalusian Dog

  published June 8, 2006

  The Taste of Andalucia food festival began auspiciously enough this past Monday evening. Guests streaming through the foyer of the... More >>

• Tuxedomoon

  published June 8, 2006

  This intended side project of the legendary instrumentalist-experimentalist collective began as the soundtrack for a real film these hallucinatory... More >>

• Josh Wink

  published June 8, 2006

  This electronic-music pioneer from Philadelphia has remained a strongly blinking blip on the ever-shifting sonar screen of big-room dance-sound... More >>

• Target Demographic

  published June 1, 2006

  The first annual Memorial Fest began as an awesome day of music and fun in the blazing heat. Lady Saw's performance was as wonderfully... More >>

• Plain Meaning of the Line

  published May 25, 2006

  This past Saturday night, while many concerned themselves with extrapolation of The Da Vinci Code, The Bitch immersed herself in another... More >>

• Rabbit Enthusiasm

  published May 18, 2006

  There is little The Bitch loves more than the languid days of summer, when there is nothing but lawn darts, Parcheesi, backgammon, shuffleboard,... More >>

• Da Backwudz

  published May 18, 2006

  On this single, the cousins from Decatur show as much love for Gene Wilder's portrayal of Willie Wonka as they did for Jennifer Holliday's... More >>

• Osunlade

  published May 18, 2006

  As any one of the several hundred insanely lucky converts who were on hand to hear Osunlade spin in Miami Beach this past February will attest,... More >>

• Rihanna

  published May 11, 2006

  Avant-garde New Waver, auteur, and mastermind producer behind (heh heh) Coil's epically experimental Scatology, Marc Almond has likely been... More >>

• Paolo Mojo

  published May 11, 2006

  Assuming the position, following "that cute DJ" Desyn Masiello's turn, as mixmaster for the Balance CD series (it's up to number nine) is... More >>

• The Roots

  published May 11, 2006

  The showcase of hip-hop overachievers seems at first offing to be an effort toward creating one of the most dour concerts of the year, given... More >>

• Luxury Lounge

  published May 4, 2006

  On a recent episode of The Sopranos, coke-snorting Christopher Moltisanti pestered Sir Ben Kingsley. The beleaguered mobster... More >>

• You're the Man Now, Dog

  published April 27, 2006

  Jonathan Riesco, the stalwart of the small Westchester neighborhood (The Bitch always mentally prefaces with so-called) known as the... More >>

• Baby Anne and Jen Lasher

  published April 27, 2006

  Though vintage-conscious trance snobs will forever deride breakbeat as the Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill of the electronic music vineyard, diehard... More >>

• Fish Swastika!

  published April 20, 2006

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