Jessica unearthed plenty of info about the Rentals' year-long multi-media project Songs About Time in her Progress Report: Stream the Joey Santiago-guesting mini album number one The Story Of A Thousand Seasons Past at www.therentals.com.

NAME:The RentalsPROGRESS REPORT: Writing/recording/filming Songs About Time in Los Angeles, CA.The Rentals released their last LP Seven More Minutes a decade ago. Since then Rentals founder Matt Sharp's output has been sporadic at best: a couple EPs under the Rentals' name and his own, a song here and there. In 2008, the Rentals -- including ret...

-- They returned from nowhere to release an EP last year, and now 90s alt-pop survivors the Rentals have a big year-long project going on through their website. It's called "Songs About Time". Once a day, Matt Sharp's post-Weezer project put up a new photo. Once a week, they'll post a new black-and-white short film with an original soundtrack ...

Recently reunited alternative/punk/new wave outfit, The Rentals have released their new EP a little early in digital formats. Originally due on August 14th the new EP is available now through iTunes. It is titled The Last Little Life.