Sounding like a DJ pumping out the snazziest electro-beat club mixes, Ratatat rocks out rap rhythms with two guitars, a keyboard, and a DVD. "It's futuristic hip-hop," says guitarist-programmer Evan ...

Brooklyn’s Ratatat has beat-making down pat with their aptly titled sophomore record, Classics (XL). With more guitar parts than a Lynyrd Skynyrd reunion and enough samples to make Girl Talk blush, ...

Ratatat‘s appropriately titled fourth album, “LP4,” doesn’t fall far from the New York electronic duo’s 2008 set, “LP3.” But the addition of a string section and hand-drums to the group’s… By ...

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 ...

Brooklyn-based musicians Mike Stroud and Evan Mast record under the name Ratatat, and they've just released their second album - Classics. (Soundbite of song, Montanita) BRAND: Music critic John Brady ...

Okay, we get it, Ratatat: You’re way experimental. The New York-based duo has toured with even – cooler – than – they – are bands like Daft Punk, Interpol, CSS, and Mogwai, and their synth-heavy, ...

When you learn about how one of your favourite albums was recorded, it’s hard not to enthuse about it all every time you mention the record. Take Bon Iver for example, rooted to the spot accompanied ...

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 ...

Better than: Momentarily passing out during the third song. Because, yeah, I did. The only place where things were a little calm was on stage. (Nikki Loehr) Ratatat did the expected and sold out the ...

With next weekend's Yardfest approaching quickly, the College Events Board (CEB) seems to be receiving much less criticism than usual for its choice of artists--Sara Bareilles and electronic group ...

Ratatat is two guys in New York City, one who plays guitar, the other a synthesizer-bass-producer polymath. It’s hard to know exactly what to call their stuff. It’s got programmed dance beats like DJ ...

Ratatat recorded "LP3" in a ghost-ridden house in upstate New York called Old Soul Studios, owned by a fedora-wearing music fanatic who goes by the name "The Wolf." "There was definitely a crazy ...