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Dude OfflineMonkey BabyRamper RecordsGRADE: BWe've been doing You Asked For It for just over a year now and it's about time we had our first repeat customer. Dude Offline got his first record, Nerd Love, reviewed by Niki D'Andrea last year, and now he's waited long enough for his seven song mini-album Monkey Baby to get a turn.Unlike it's more eclectic predecessor, Monkey Baby is pretty much straight up nerdtronica with vocoder vocals, pounding beats and rough-edged synthesizers I'd feel comfort
Benjamin LeathermanA-Trak gets pulses pumping on Monday night at Club Red.
Perspiration was the cologne of choice at last night's A-Trak show at Tempe's Club Red, as the sweltering 100-degree-plus temps inside the nightspot caused many a scenester to baste in their own sweat. Then again, it might've also been the white-hot beats that the A-List turntablist and remix king was blasting out from the 15,000-megawatt sound system.
Despite the fact it was a weekday evening, the gig had a fearsome t
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