On election day, the Rentals -- former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp's longstanding pop-rock project -- announced a new double album called Q36. Upon sharing lead single "Spaceship," Sharp said he'd release a new song from the album every two weeks leading up to its June 2020 release date. Exactly two weeks have passed since then,…

Last year, the ’90s alt-pop survivor and former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp convened a new lineup of his old project the Rentals, putting together the new album Lost In Alphaville. The band’s new video for the precise, mechanical album track “It’s Time To Come Home” casts Sharp in some sort of mad-...

Last month, the Rentals announced that they were releasing their first album in a decade and a half and shared the new song “Thought Of Sound.” The group is still primarily the project of ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp but he’s joined by an all-new lineup and “1000 Seasons” makes good use of them, ...

In December, we learned that the Rentals, which started out as a Weezer side project back when bassist Matt Sharp was still in the band, were readying their first album in a decade and a half. Other than Sharp, the new lineup of the Rentals is completely different, and it includes Black Keys drummer Patrick [...]

We last heard from ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp’s Rentals in 2009, when the multimedia project Songs About Time generated a series of four new EPs of soundtrack music including a collaboration with Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago, all of which were later compiled into the 2011 Japanese tsunami relief benefit Resilience. Despite that iso...