News in Brief: The Rentals, Ghislain Poirier, Architecture in Helsinki, Phosphorescent, Tunng/Tinariwen

-- 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 that you won't be able to find anywhere else. And once every three months, they'll release a new mini-album, with the first one coming in April. You'll b...

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