Guitarist Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast have practically come full circle. Leaving behind the darker, sparse elements of 2010’s LP4, the noodly guitar and synthesiser duo crank up the noise and ...

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 ...

Hearing the eponymous Ratatat debut LP for the first time as a fresh-faced 18 year old is something that will stay with me for all my days. Like nothing I had ever heard before, the shock, the awe, ...

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Last night, Ratatat graced Tucson with a performance at the Rialto Theater. Hot Sugar, a solo band that played electric-guitar-based techno music, opened with a sound that reminded me of old-school ...

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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 ...

Evan Mast, or E*vax, is an electronic music artist. He and his brother E*rock run the Audio Dregs record label. His first album, Parking Lot Music, was released on 04 April 2001. Mast’s music is ...

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 crafting instrumental music, artists have to convey personality and a point of view without falling back on vocals — or, more to the point, expressions of human emotion. The best, like the ...

On June 8, the Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat will release their fourth album, the imaginatively titled LP4, via XL. (The band told Pitchfork a little bit about the new joint here.) And now, thanks ...

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, ...