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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

If the mark of an effective music video is its ability to get people talking (or, you know, posting anonymous comments on message boards), then the one for Ratatat's song “Drugs” can be considered an ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ahead of Magnifique, Ratatat's fifth studio album set for release on July 17, the experimental duo released a video for "Abrasive." The clip becomes more impressive when you learn the animation ...

Ratatat has always seethed and pulsed and coolly strutted along while the angular, spastic dance-punk of their mid-aughts contemporaries desperately tried to out-sass and out-disco-beat itself. The ...

In a recent interview on this very website, Kid Cudi told us he hoped to work with Ratatat, Band of Horses, and the Postal Service on his debut LP. Well, one out of three is better than none out of ...

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 ...