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-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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...