With its ambitious cross-cultural rhythmic palate and the strongest melodies to date, Ratatat’s LP3 is practically begging for MCs to jack and loop a beat in order to complete the cycle. In addition ...

Nearly every time he’s interviewed, Ratatat guitarist Mike Stroud gets asked his least favorite question: When are you guys going to start singing? “We’re an instrumental group,” he says. “We don’t ...

So much of Ratatat's appeal lies in what it doesn't do: On the band's fifth album, Brooklynites Mike Stroud and Evan Mast built sleek, propulsive instrumentals using a spare palette of guitars, ...

When your music has no lyrics but your audience includes the dance-averse, a live show poses a challenge. It becomes even more of one when the show is sold-out, as with Ratatat’s Saturday-night ...

Ratatat have been continuing to support this year’s Magnifique (on XL) on tour. They’re about to hit places like Mexico City, Hong Kong and Australia, and then play San Francisco on New Year’s Eve.

When I walked into my first Ratatat concert in 2010 at Boston’s House of Blues, I knew the duo only from their recordings. So, I went in with the expectation of an entrancing, but quasi-ambient, ...

Ratatat have shared the video for "Abrasive", from their forthcoming Magnifique LP. Featuring 4000+ drawings by Ratatat's Evan Mast (as E.VAX) and produced by Perfect Branch, the video is a ...

Last fall, while you were still debating whether LCD Soundsystem or Battles was the best electro-rock band of 2007, Ratatat— Brooklyn’s other white meat—were upstate in Catskill, holed up at an old ...

With Brooklyn addresses, plaid shirts and a whole lot of hair, you could be fn for thinking Ratatat's Evan Mast and Mike Stroud are the latest outfit coming off New York's production line of hip. But ...

Hearing the eponymous Ratatat debut LP for the first time as a fresh-faced 18 year old is something that will stay with me for all my days. Like nothing I had ever heard before, the shock, the awe, ...

Guitarist Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast have practically come full circle. Leaving behind the darker, sparse elements of 2010’s LP4, the noodly guitar and synthesiser duo crank up the noise and ...

When does an electronic rock concert make a person feel like Danny Glover’s irritable geezer cop in Lethal Weapon? The answer: When the concert in question is Saturday’s all-ages Ratatat show at the ...