Two years ago Matt Sharp begged Elon Musk to send him to outer space… that dream became a reality, as The Rentals launched ‘Q36’ with the single Forgotten Astronaut. The voyage on ‘Q36’ will include 16 individual releases and over seven months to complete, culminating in the release of their double album. Listen to Forgotten Astronaut via YouTube below.
Inspired by the writing of NASA Astronaut Michael Collins, Matt Sharp’s lyrics for The Rentals new single Forgotten Astronaut – which is out now – read like an imaginary, inner-conversation the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11 may have had with himself during the 21 hours Collins spent alone waiting for Aldrin and Armstrong to return safely to their home away from home, the spacecraft Columbia.
Both Matt Sharp & The Rentals have taken one giant leap towards that Utopian World of idealistic creative desires, as they announce a partnership between ‘Q36’ and Joseph Gordon Levitt’s egalitarian online creative platform HITRECORD. HITRECORD is a worldwide community of wildly talented, artistically minded strangers that have come together, because they are united by the idea that we are stronger together than we are apart.
Forgotten Astronaut features Matt Sharp on vocals, bass & Synthesizers, Nick Zinner on guitars, Ronnie Vannucci on drums, and The Gentle Assassins for the choir.
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