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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

“This is our last song,” the instrumental group Ratatat’s guitarist Evan Mast repeatedly said before more than half of the songs they played at the Black Cat on Wednesday night. At the time, it threw ...

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, ...

I’ve never been one to get into the whole electronica music scene, especially that shitty techno that just repeats the same lyric over and over again, but I digress. Ratatat, the incredible duo of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The first time I saw Ratatat live, the energy of the music prompted me and my college ...