Erin and Jessica still perform acoustic songs together as Steak-Knife.  Erin also plays in Delta Dart and Shotgun Won.

from Music Dish magazine:
The Makeshift Conspiracy is chick rock at its very best-cool minor chords, good punk rock beat, and vocals screamed at the top of the adept singer's voice. Even if you couldn't understand the lyrics (like if you couldn't understand English or something), the tone of these songs carries the meaning across perfectly. This band is just so beautifully kick-ass it's amazing. (Holly Day)

from MOLE magazine #12
"Let's cut right to the chase: MC is a big raw slab of riot grrl genius in the Adickdid/Bikini Kill/early Scrawl skool, complete with dense wall of distorted sound, amazing primal melodic knocks & a piercing shreik that let's you know you've been rocked. SB side's just as good, blowing up beautiful pop stuff like "Raspberrie" with insane screaming interludes & covering broader sonic territory. Both sides: I love these feministo lyrics. 100 Cali boy bands don't have the rock these grrl trio's got. Kill Rock Stars shoulda been all over them. Thank god for records like this"

Willamette Weekly 7/98
Kim Deal was never a riot grrrl ( too rich n creamy for that) but a lot of post-grrrl bands seem to slip some Pixies dust into the standard angry recipie, smoothing out the harsh edges with shiny pop polish. Fit the Makeshift Conspiracy into this growing group of feisty-yet-fun femme rockers. For the most part Sarcastic Bitch coos contentedly, but it's also likely to start shrieking and arch a fuzzy backbone of bass and guitar. ( JG)

Bringing forth two riot girl (sic) acts on one disc, Spazm Records (sic) unleashes an explosive seventeen song disc that slides in under thirty-five minutes. The music is loud, and full of dirt, while the lyrics are pure angst.
First up is The Makeshift Conspiracy, a three-piece, all-girl band from California. Opening up with the first nine tracks, they bring forth a garage sound that is equal parts power chords and screams. Very aggressive, and never showing any signs of pop hooks, their music comes off as left over anger that has sustained after a few relationships gone wrong. But as you listen to it more, the angry residue is still left, but there are some signs of life besides the anger. They mix in a few lines here and there that are observations on life that don't have to deal with broken hearts and liars abroad. By: Alex Steininger

from 100% issue 6
"you know when you get some birthday presents that are truly shit, but some are like the best thing ever? well this cd was one of the good ones. as soon as you put this on, it fukin affects you. 2 girl band from the us on one cd who play you tunes that run through yr body ripping out yr internal organs. i'd never heard of either band but you'll recognize other bands' influences...'library dance' has the urgency of a driving tune with the most caustic vocals in the chorus you'll hear, and the fuked up structures on 'racecar' will make any band of the same genre very jealous! the sarcastic bitch are a bit more melancholy. they skip between the very k sounding tracks like 'raspberrie' and 'getting over it' and the raw, young early riot grrrl-sounding 'sell out & get away'. basically both bands and this cd are fukin excellent, and as paroxysm say, it's the cd that kill rock stars were scared to put out - and rightly too, it's that good."

from Beikoku-Ongaku magazine:
South California-based Teenager bands' comp LP. So tight and energetic. So, I can't understand what they sing in English, but can feel everything perfectly. (Yayoi)

MRR August 2000
The Makeshift Conspiracy/Sourtooth split ep

The Makeshift Conspiracy are a now defunct band in the vein of what can best be described as the new generation of indie rock, post riot grrls. It's kinda mellow.It has punches of anger. It has middle eights of sad. Sort of like GEEK meets the Fontaine songs of VERSUS. Sourtooth might still be together. It's hard to decipher from the packaging. Would it matter? The songs are pretty augmented pop songs with careful layers of guitar lines that become the beams and buttresses supporting the vocals. Sort of like architectural indie rock. Pretty neat record

The Makeshift Conspiracy and Sourtooth are powerful, post-punk rock bands that really blew me away. The sound here is very northwestern, ala Sleater-Kinney and similar grrl-rock bands, but they are both unique in their own rights and suprisingly powerful....The Makeshift Conspiracy contribute three songs, apparently their last as they say that they broke up. "New Water Cycle" is a brilliant, moody rock song, heavy on the bass with some deep and bitter female vocals. The backing vocals are perfect, higher and contrasting nicely. The song moves along with a heavy-hand kind of feel, but it never gets too fast or too out of control. It reminds me of some of the darker Pixies songs a bit. "Fraidycat" is a little bit more upbeat, and the two female singers sing at the same time. This one has a bit of a lo-fi Sleater-Kinney feel, heavy on the crunchy guitar riffs and the vocals. But again, it has something of a dark underlying feel. "Exit Nowhere" is probably the worst of the three, and the production seems to have suffered here a bit, because the singer sounds much more out of tune. But it still has that heavy-handed, slightly crunchy rock feel with darker overtones supplied by some low-end bass lines. Very nice stuff. To read complete review click here