LINKS: RATATATERY

Business as usual; a collection of links from the past few days. You'll notice a few links about Ratatat's new record Classics, including an interview with FADER, as well as press regarding the debut LP from SP-friendly Atlanta band Snowden.

» Ratatat - Classics - Review - Stylus Magazine

On paper, Ratatat is a terrible idea...

» American Gothic Types Shoot Pink Bullets, Paint It Black: Snowden's Anti-Anti

Aside from their hometown of Atlanta, there's nothing Southern about Snowden - no songs about driving cars, no twang, and absolutely no drawl.
» bigstereo :: Saam Faramand

There have been quite a few videos from Saam finding their way onto bigstereo - New Young Pony Club, Dead Disco, Klaxons. He definitely seems like the go-to music video director. A collection of Saam's videography...

» workFRIENDLY - Surf safely from work

whoa

» Meet Park Slope Kid Band Care Bears on Fire
Burning Down the House With their parents' full approval. Meet Care Bears on Fire.

» Pitchfork: Bloc Party, Maximo Producer Paul Epworth... RAPS!

Recreating himself as street tuff Epic Man, Epworth's already inter-leaked one self-produced track, "More Is Enough", featuring grime emcee Plan B...

» headfonehaus: SpaceDisco is the new rare groove

from the paws of Matthew Herbman

» White People Love Gnarls Barkley

I haven't had a lot to say about Gnarls Barkley in this space mostly because I haven't yet been able to decide how I feel about the whole endeavor: a once-great Southern-rap pioneer with freaky space-mystic pretensions pairing up with a goofy cartoon-funk...

» Ratatat: Classics: Pitchfork Record Review

Expert programmers Evan Mast and Mike Stroud follow their self-titled debut with a more refined collection of indie electronica.

» Night Ripper - Wikipedia

Night Ripper is Gregg Gillis's third album, released on Illegal Art under the name Girl Talk. Here is an incomplete list of samples (please add/correct) used on the album, in chronological order.

» Hot House Flowers

Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear migrate north and maul a few mint juleps

» Snowden: Anti-Anti: Pitchfork Record Review

Debut from brooding Atlanta four-piece is filled with crisp and efficient songs that mix the personal and political.

» Pitchfork: Black Dice: "Manoman" [Track Review]

Moving past Broken Ear Record's loud, colorful futurism, the band aims mostly for the percussive and primitive.

» Everlasting Bass

After a week of non-stop Ratatatery, we did the right thing and called up our main dude Nico Muhly and got him to interview Team Ratatat, Evan Mast and Mike Stroud.

» American Apparel, LLC - Knowmore

What followed Charney's call was six months in pursuit of the original goal: a profile of American Apparel, and a better understanding of the divisive company's history and ethics.

» Franz Ferdinand reveal hit secrets

Music fans were given a master class by one of Scotland's biggest bands at the Edinburgh Festival.

» Looking for a Way to Keep Rome Burning

A roving, debauched party may become a victim of its success. Nudity and fabulous costumes, it seems, are only edgy for so long.

» Fuckpony - Children of Love

Own thread for talkin' about this. As good as Movements?

I'VE BEEN RAPPING FOR ABOUT 17 YEARS, BUT I'VE ONLY BEEN IN THIS BAND FOR 4 OR 5

The second Ratatat album leaked. It is called Classics, which is classic in and of itself. It is very good. There are acoustic guitars. This does not change the fact that it is very good.



I like this band. I like the guys in this band. In fact, I like everything: the video, the live show, the cover art. Keep on keepin' on, Ratatat. Also, please tour the midwest.

Released on August 22. Standout track right now is "Lex," even though it's not the one with the jaguar sample. Listen to the one with the jaguar sample on MySpace. [I don't like to post mp3s. Go find the album yourself, you lazy Hype Machine bastards. ]