SISTER SF in the Press: 2002

Womanrock.com: April 2002
Collective Conscience
by Deena Prichep

As the music industry has become more and more homogenized and less geared toward artist development in recent years, music collectives have been on the rise. Collectives function as support groups, loose guilds, or DIY labels (or any combination of the three), helping musicians develop their craft and navigate the difficulties in building a career. By working together, members provide feedback, share advice, resources, connections, and divvy up grunt work.

http://www.womanrock.com/features/collective_conscience.html

Muzik.com: April 2002
Chick DJs Put A Spin on the Music Industry
by Emily Le Coz

When I was a little girl, I had one of those iron-on T-shirts that said “Anything Boys Can Do, Girls Can Do Better”. I wore it proudly, and I wore it often (mostly just to piss off my brother), and I felt it necessary even at that young age to announce my newfound slogan to the world.

But, alas, that was in the late 1970s, early 1980s when a girl had to go out of her way to prove herself and be accepted as an equal. Now, comfortably easing our ways into 2000s, women have no trouble sliding into what was once considered a man’s job. We don’t need silly slogans or backbreaking efforts to prove ourselves in a male-dominated world, right?...

http://www.muzik.com/level_one/ChickDJFrame.htm

TechnoPunkMusic.com: February 2002
The Stunning Funk and Dirty Breaks of ELZ
by Bill Whiting-Mahoney

It is often an unwritten policy around here to avoid bringing up gender as the centerpiece of the reviews. Within the Electronic community (as within many popular institutions of the day) females are still considered the minority. In our own subtle way, by not highlighting the fact that a DJ is a female (one of those “Damn, she’s good for a girl” statements), it seems more respectful to the artist involved and, hopefully, sets an example, perhaps by implying, hey guys, this DJ is a girl, an equal, and has the potential to whip your ass!

http://www.technopunkmusic.com/article1153.html

The San Francisco Examiner: February 2002
The Mix
by Bill Picture

Also tonight, SF's only all-female DJ collective, Sister SF, is teaming up with d:Code at the DNA Lounge for a Valentine's Day event they're calling We Like Boys III: It's A Love/Hate Thing. Sister SF has been trying since it was formed in 1997 to lose the aggro-feminist label slapped on it by people who didn't quite seem to get what they were trying to do - provide a positive, non-competitive support system for women DJ's. They're not anti-guy, they're just pro-girl. There's a huge difference.

So in a unique show of DJ solidarity with their male peers, the girls of Sister SF -- Polywog, Forest Green, XJS and Seraphim -- and their guests, Disco D (GTI Recordings, Detroit), Push (True Intent), 8 Ball (Space Cowboys) and Dr. Lung (Lung International), are trading places and genders for the night. Catch crazy drag tag-team turntable action featuring girlish boys and boyish girls on the techno, breaks, ghetto tech and D&B tips. If you've never caught one of Disco D's sets, tonight's your chance. This lanky white kid from the Motor City tears up the decks with a by-the-seat-of-his-pants -- or, rather, dress -- mix of old school electro, Detroit techno and Miami Bass. The man is chock full of jaw-dropping turntable tricks. Don't miss it!

OC Weekly.com: February 2002
The Power of the Selector
by Andrew Asch

Clay Young’s revolutionary goal is gender equality, and his medium is music—several women spinning deep house, punk and even avant-classical music at Night of the All-Girl DJ-2, a monthly club at Costa Mesa’s Detroit Bar.

If deejaying doesn’t sound as influential as owning a major corporation or sitting in Congress, Young, a veteran KUCI DJ, won’t argue. He just wants to give a group of outsiders a chance to shape pop culture.

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/02/23/music-asch.shtml