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 ...

Everyone makes music like Ratatat, except that no one makes music like Ratatat. Their futuristic, cut and pasted, instrumental dance/funk is a genre unto itself, but the recipe is full of familiar ...

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, ...

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.

In 1999, before we started getting used to the idea of French-style house leading hipsters in droves onto dancefloors, Ratatat began whetting certain prescient appetites with gossamer dance tracks ...

RATATAT played the first weekend of Coachella on Saturday (4/11) which was the duo’s first live performance in four years. They played a few new songs, as you might expect, including “Cream on Chrome” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...