Interview: Talking To The Rentals’ Matt Sharp About His Music And Photography

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I remember these streets, I remember these faces, no one here ever ages/angels from machines, crowding the streets/there must be some kind of factory where the angels are made to just be replaced/I’ve written enough, enough for todayGenerally speaking I’m a hip-hop guy, but even I can get behind something like “there must be some [...]
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I spoke to Matt Sharp, founder and frontman of The Rentals, a few weeks back as a result of my weird fascination with film photography. (Incidentally, I have Louis CK, who you can now see on Parks and Recreation every week on NBC, to thank for my initial interest in film.) Current fans of the band know that it's been working on a yearlong project known as Songs About Time. Rather than going through the standard rigamarole of recording an album in a secluded studio, then touring to support it (not to mention dealing with the apparently crazy record labels), Sharp and Co. came up with a different idea: how about, instead of one big album, which is so start-stop, we sprinkle a few EPs throughout the year, and document our days together for our fans in the form of short movies and frequent photographs? Or, in Matt's own words: The project is one year in photography, film, and music that's all coming, in real time, on our Web site. There's not a better word for it than a multimedia project, but we have one element of the site that deals with photography, one part that deals with film, and one part that deals with music. At times they intersect and feed off each other, and have a cyclical, creative rhythm.
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