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Salute Your Shorts: The Rentals' Songs About Time

Salute Your Shorts: The Rentals' <i>Songs About Time</i>

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.On the first day of 2009, Matt Sharp and his band The Rentals began Songs About Time, which can be best described as an insanely ambitious multimedia project. The basic premise is simple but quite epic in scope. There are three main prongs to the concept:...  read more

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The Rentals return with Songs About Time

The Rentals return with <em>Songs About Time</em>

Following a hiatus of nearly seven years, The Rentals reunited in 2006 for a tour that culminated in The Last Little Life EP. But that release only left fans hungry for more which, strangely, wasn't forthcoming. One of the group's musicianss, Sara Radle, left and it looked like they might have died off again just as quietly as they'd returned. ...  read more

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Matt Sharp - Matt Sharp

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The story so far: Weezer bassist Matt Sharp gets the boot, forms The Rentals and begins what promises to be a productive second act before that, too, begins unraveling...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Matt Sharp

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The first two albums by the band Weezer are about as close to perfect as pop-rock can get, and I’ll happily fight anyone who wants to challenge this assertion...  read more

Found in: Music, Features