Nervous Cabaret are opening for Amanda Palmer on this tour. They're also her backing band. Byran just caught the show in Maine...

When you learn about how one of your favourite albums was recorded, it’s hard not to enthuse about it all every time you mention the record. Take Bon Iver for example, rooted to the spot accompanied by the "cabin talk"...

The record, which went under Mysteries of the Old Soul as a working title, was recorded during the summer of 2007 in the Catskill Mountains, in a "house inhabited by spirits"...

Whereas most acts get berated for churning out material with the same formula, Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat’s return with LP3 and the same hurdy-gurdy waltz they’ve always had avoids such a pitfall, as their material proves as intoxicating as ever...

When Ratatat blew into the music scene a few years back, many (including myself) were simply in awe of their dynamic synth guitar arena club power beats.  Classics was an instant classic...

As Ratatat, Evan Mast and Mike Stroud have spent the last five years tearing down the wall between guitar-driven indie-rock and glitchy, ultramodern laptop electronica. Their simultaneously beat-driven and atmospheric efforts have made them both underground-venue...

Ratatat stormed onto the scene in 2004 with their debut single 'Seventeen Years', which launched their idiosyncratic mix of rock, electronica and hip hop to an unsuspecting world...

Last fall, while you were still debating whether LCD Soundsystem or Battles was the best electro-rock band of 2007, Ratatat— Brooklyn's other white meat—were upstate in Catskill, holed up at an old mansion where former president Martin Van Buren got married...

RATATAT'S music is a little unconventional. There is no singing, no verse-chorus-verse structures and the duo's sound seems based around a clash between machine-made beats, baroque-inflected classical music and the joys of hair-metal guitar...

Ratatat have been slowly causing a fuss in the musical expertee community. Third-record, aptly titled 'LP3' is on the brink of finding itself in all good record stores and all good people's end of year lists...

Super-hip New York duo Ratatat left the confines of Gotham's minimalist electro glam for the wilds of the Catskills on their third album LP3. It emerged as a neo-colonial traipse, coloured by tribal rhythms and quaint harpsichord...

LP3 is the third studio album from Ratatat, the follow-up to 2006's Classics and 2004's self-titled debut. Since the release of Classics, Ratatat have toured relentlessly, headlining shows around the world...

I wonder if anyone else has secretly taken a RATATAT song and recorded their own vocal track over it. I did. In 2004 I had just returned from a literal mind-blowing journey in Peru and I was oddly placed in the basement of my ex-neighbors house in the suburbs of Nowhere, Kansas...

Everybody's favorite NYC electrorock duo, Ratatat, is about to get less rock/guitar-oriented than ever for their third album, the imaginatively titled LP3, due July 8 on XL. Perhaps in an effort to keep themselves out of future editions of Guitar Hero...

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...

Curioser and curioser. Opening out like a celestial telescope and retracting into spaces of cavernous privacy and pecking glossolalia, Larkin Grimm isn't your typical girly singer-songwriter. The child of hippies...

For those of you who thought the freak-folk movement was missing a dollop or two of genuine freakiness, Larkin Grimm is your girl. On Parplar, her Young God debut, Grimm, the product of Appalachian hippie cult parents and a Yale education...

Some CDs beg to be played over and over again. This is one of those times when the disc absolutely refuses to go back into its case and demands to go back in the player. Normally I cannot listen to an album more than once a day but Larkin Grimm's third album makes for a rare exception...

This untamed, moon-worshiping, blood-and-guts Appalachian gypsy is a peculiar folkie. Larkin Grimm's 15-song debut for Michael Gira's Young God label is informed by sex magic, the Holy Ghost, and lizards...

Just recounting the brief synopsis of Larkin Grimm!s life—that she grew up in a cult until the age of six, then spent the rest of her childhood in the Appalachians, frequently sleeps outdoors, has no permanent address...

Boston band Apollo Sunshine first appeared on the radar in 2003, when it released promising debut Katonah. Two years later, in 2005, the band stepped it up with an impressive self-titled sophomore album...