Brooklyn duo will give away a digital copy of 'LP4' to everyone who buys a ticket

-- The Quine Tapes is a six-LP live box set that documents the Velvet Underground onstage in 1969. VU super-fan and future Lou Reed guitarist Robert Quine recorded the shows, and the set includes posters, handbills, and rare photos. It's coming soon from Sundazed.

-- Brian Eno has picked Iceland-based producer Ben Frost as the winner of the music portion of the 2010-2011 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, which means Frost will get to collaborate with Eno for a year. As previously reported, DJ /rupture was also up for the honor.

-- Garage rock survivors the Hives have a new covers EP called Tarred and Feathered coming as a digital download on July 2 and as a 7" single on July 9. Right now, you can sign up for a free download of one of the EP's three tracks at the Hives' website. The band tackles songs by the Zero Boys, Flash and the Pan, and Joy Ryder & Avis Davis.

-- P.S.1, the Museum of Modern Art's Queens outpost, has announced the lineup for its super fun annual series Warm Up, which goes down every Saturday from July 3 to...

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The last time electro duo Ratatat came around these parts with a video from the just-released LP4, it was a clip for "Party with Children" featuring just a bird... and that's pretty much it. While the label told us that the clip was just a teaser for the official video, the final cut still hasn't made the rounds yet.

Nonetheless, Ratatat are back with more visual accompaniment, this time for LP4's "Mahalo". Like its predecessor, nothing much happens in this video, which was directed by band member Evan Mast and premiered on Spinner today. We're treated to footage of a boat ride through Southeast Asia. Check out the video below.

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Music Weekly springs into action with the dulcet tones of the National's Matt Berninger. He tells Rosie Swash about the method behind his songwriting and why the National's music is much more fun than you might think.

Singles Club sees Rosie joined by Alex Needham and the Guide's Will Dean to discuss Kano's Get Wild, Ratatat's Party With Children, and the comeback single from Scissor Sisters, Fire With Fire.

And there's live music from Californian quartet Princeton, who are influenced by the Bloomsbury group and are not, repeat, not named after the university.

That's your lot this week, come and find us on Facebook or Twitter. Until next time, happy listening.

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 to NPR Music, you can hear the entire album before it hits stores. LP4 is streaming over at the NPR website right up until its release date, and you can click here to hear it.

The New York duo return with a new album and a whole lot of birds...



After whirlwind touring and recording, Ratatat are set to be breaking new barriers with their fourth album on XL Recordings this June. Playing with new unexpected experimental sounds, Evan Mast and Mike Stroud made 'LP4' straight after their prolific recording sessions in rural upstate New York for their third album. 'LP4' however, has been described as a 'weirder' listen than 'LP3', with a new approach to the structures of the tracks.

Incorporating never-used-before sounds and instruments into the mix and working with a full string section, the album also features a number of spoken word interludes, one taken from Werner Herzog's 197... article continues »


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UPDATE: According to Beggars, this is a teaser for the real video for this song, which is coming soon.

The cover of Ratatat's upcoming LP4-- out June 8 via XL-- features an expertly arranged flock of white birds, as you can see above. And, solidifying any doubts about the band's allegiance to white birds, the video for new track "Party With Children" stars a white bird in front of a green screen. That is all. Not much happens, but staring at that thing for a few minutes did make me realize how truly fucked up birds are-- just look at their eyes, man! Pure evil.

Watch it below (via Drowned in Sound):

Brooklyn duo will release LP4 on June 7

MP3/Stream:> Ratatat: "Party With Children"

Front page photo by Neil Krug

The Brooklyn-based instrumental electro-rock duo Ratatat is back. On June 8, XL will release the group's follow-up to 2008's LP3, the appropriately titled LP4. (That's the cover, and the track "Party With Children", above.) The new album features the same bold guitar leads and precise drums these guys are known for, along with some more worldly influences and a sample from the Terrence Malick film Days of Heaven.

Since we last checked in with Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, they graduated from remixing rap tracks in their own image to working with a real-life MC on Kid Cudi's debut album last year. In a recent chat, we talked to them about that collaboration, remixing Bjoerk, and whether their music would work better in a Doritos or Combos commercial.

Read the Q&A and check out the LP4 tracklist below:

Pitchfork: How was working with Kid Cudi on his album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day?

Evan Mast: Usually we go off somewhere super isolated and record for a month. But with Kid Cudi we went to a pro studio in Manhattan and there were lots of people there-- people from label, his cousins. But we created the song from the ground up together and it was really fun. Kid Cudi would just get really giddy about things. He originally got in touch with our A&R years ago, before...

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