Q and Not U
Power
Dischord (2004)
Mike Watt famously said that the Minutemen "divided the whole world into two categories: there were flyers and the gig. You're either doing the gig, which is like one hour of your life or everything else to get people to the gig. Interviews were flyers, videos were flyers, even records were flyers. We didn't tour to promote records, we made records to promote the tours, because the gig was where you could make the money." I'm not using this quote to say that Q and Not U's efforts are necessarily motivated by the almighty dollar but much of their work has always sounded confined and stifled on wax. This leads me to believe that Q and Not U's strength and immense popularity lay not in their *ahem* complex, thought-provoking recordings but in their, by all accounts, incendiary live show. Though I haven't actually experienced the group in person, I get the feeling that Q's records, like those of the Minutemen, act also as flyers for their gigs. Power, flyer #3 for the Q, isn't much of a departure for the group, taking the angular guitars of No Kill No Beep Beep, the hipster funk of Different Damage, and combining them … Read more
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