Matt Sharp

Songwriter + Bassist + Bass

Male

Born Sep 22, 1969

Age 43

Hometown Bangkok

Genres Rock music

Instruments Synthesizer + Sin...

Performed With Tegan and Sara + ...

Record Label Maverick Records

Matthew Kelly Sharp is a founding member and former bassist for the band Weezer. In 1994, he started a band called The Rentals and released their debut album shortly after Weezer's first release, their second album in 1999, and an EP in 2007. In addition… Read More

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Maya Rudolph
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News + Updates

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The Diversity That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Practical Ethics - Jun 10, 2012

This is a guest post by Dave Frame. Many thanks to him for contributing! Over the last few years, researchers have pointed out a dimension along which there is an extraordinary lack of diversity in the academic social sciences and humanities.[1] And the response from social scientists has been striking. Usually, statistics like these trigger strident calls to reflect diversity and address systematic bias; in this case – political bias – everyone just smiles and winks. But on what basi...
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Comment On Is Darwinian Medicine Good For Us? By Matt Sharp
Practical Ethics - Apr 28, 2012

I don’t doubt that toxic chemicals can cause cancer. And perhaps refined sugar has contributed to an increase in cancer, though the biggest contributing factor to the increase in cancer is the fact that people are living longer because of reduced mortality to other diseases. But as I said, processes of ‘self-healing’ are severely limited. If they weren’t, there would have been less need for medicine as people would be have been living into their 80s/90s and beyond anyway. But in previous ...
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'Girls'' Lena Dunham Interned At Soft Skull, Not At Melville House
LATimes - Apr 24, 2012

In screenwriting, they call it the "inciting incident." That's the thing that happens that gets the plot rolling, and in the sensational HBO series "Girls," that incident is Hannah (actress and show creator Lena Dunham) getting fired from her internship at an independent publisher. "She was making the story work in a fictional context," said Richard Nash, who was the independent publisher Dunham interned for -- without getting fired. "It was autobiographical in the vaguest way." Bookish ...
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Comment On A Teeny Weeny Baby Puzzle By Matt Sharp
Practical Ethics - Mar 27, 2012

I’ve not looked at any of this research, but I was wondering if anyone else could tell me whether the same is true of (a)couples who adopt and (b)couples who undergo IVF. The thinking being that if parents have gone through years of effort/bureaucracy, they might be more appreciative than those who conceive easily… Also, is anyone aware of cross-cultural comparisons? Perhaps countries with more tightly-knit extended families are happier (e.g. because granny can look after the kids at the ...
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Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Matt Sharp.

CHILDHOOD

1969 Birth Born on September 22, 1969.

TEENAGE

1989 19 Years Old In 1989, Sharp found himself fronting a goth band called the Clique. … Read More

TWENTIES

1991 21 Years Old In the summer of 1991, Sharp moved north to Berkeley to pursue what Karl Koch called, "some sorta symphonic keyboard sequencing music." … Read More

1992 22 Years Old 1 More Event

In January 1992, Sharp reconnected with his former bandmates; Cuomo, Wilson and Cropper, when Wilson showed him material from his and Cuomo's "50 song project." … Read More

1994 24 Years Old 1 More Event

… In 1994, he started a band called The Rentals and released their debut album shortly after Weezer's first release, their second album in 1999, and an EP in 2007. … Read More

1998 28 Years Old He left Weezer in February 1998 two years after the release of the band's second album, Pinkerton. … Read More

THIRTIES

2002 32 Years Old 1 More Event

… Sharp also went on an acoustic tour in the fall of 2002, touring with former Cake guitarist Greg Brown.

2003 33 Years Old Sharp released a solo EP in 2003, a solo full-length in 2004 and continued to tour in 2004-2005 with the band Goldenboy.

2004 34 Years Old In 2004, Sharp recorded synthesizer on So Jealous by Canadian indie pop band Tegan and Sara. … Read More

FORTIES

2010 40 Years Old 1 More Event

In October 2010, Matt Sharp sold most of his equipment from his Weezer and The Rentals days on eBay. … Read More

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