<div style="font-size: 12.8px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;"><div>HAVE YOU HEARD? is super happy to announce our next gig with RATATAT. </div>Date:&nbsp;Monday 9 May 2016 </div>Venue: Live RCA <div style="font-size: 12.8px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;"> Released its fifth full-length album, Magnifique, on XL Recordings in July 2015 - a solid five years after Mike Stroud and&nbsp;Evan Mast’s last release, LP4 from 2010. Following up on the experimental sounds of LP3 and LP4, Ratatat return&nbsp;to their core guitar-driven sound on Magnifique. “I feel like it’s our strongest record,” Evan says. “We did it in spurts.&nbsp;We made a few trips to different locations where we’d set up a studio and work.” Mike and Evan spent time in Port&nbsp;Antonio, Jamaica, upstate New York (at the same studio whereLP3 and LP4 were recorded), Long Island, New York&nbsp;and at their own studio in Brooklyn.&nbsp; Combining the bedrock beats and primordial riffs from their first two albums&nbsp;with the sonic experimentation and production prowess of LP3 and LP4, Mike and Evan arrived at a new plateau&nbsp;with Magnifique. Formerly known as Cherry, New York's rock-meets-electronica duo Ratatat feature multi-instrumentalist/programmer&nbsp;Evan Mast and guitarist Mike Stroud. Mast was also the brains behind the pretty laptop pop of E*vax, and with his&nbsp;brother E*Rock he ran the indie electronic label Audio Dregs. Stroud also played, in the studio and on tour, with&nbsp;artists including Ben Kweller and Dashboard Confessional. Between these duties (and Mast's job as a graphic&nbsp;designer), the duo found time to work on their collaboration. In his bedroom studio, Mast worked on beats and song&nbsp;ideas that he gave to Stroud to develop while the guitarist was on the road. Though Mast and Stroud began working&nbsp;together in 2001, things really began to come together for the pair in 2003: in May, while they were still called&nbsp;Cherry, they played their first gig; by September they changed their name to Ratatat; and that November they&nbsp;issued their first single, which had a limited run of 1,100 copies, on Audio Dregs. Dates with Franz Ferdinand,&nbsp;Interpol, and Battles followed, and Ratatat signed to XL Records. The duo's self-titled debut album arrived in spring&nbsp;2004, coinciding with another round of dates with bands including !!!, Electrelane, and Tortoise. Classics appeared&nbsp;in 2006, followed by a self-released remix album. Ratatat then took a different approach to their third full-length&nbsp;effort, emphasizing live percussion and keyboards while toning down their familiar mix of programmed beats and&nbsp;guitars. Recorded in several short weeks, LP3 was released in July 2008, followed by the more experimental LP4,&nbsp;released just shy of&nbsp;two years later&nbsp;in 2010.&nbsp;</div>