Although yesterday was technically his birthday, today is Dre Day in Milwaukee. Make sure you celebrate appropriately, as many people will be doing at The Hotel Foster tonight. The event will feature a Miltown Beatdown-esque Dr. Dre Battle, the $20 Sack Pyramid game show, Hip Hop Karaoke and more. In celebration of all things Dre, I decided to rank the
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The 2015 Grammys are this weekend, and naturally it’s a who’s who of pop culture in 2015. While Eminem may not give a damn about a Grammy, it’s a huge honor (and record sale booster) if you’re lucky enough to win one. In some ways, predicting the Grammys is kind of a tough call, because it’s not always about picking
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! If you’re a fan of Christmas, but hate the music, you’re getting an extra present this year. I’ve put together my top 10 Favorite Christmas songs. I painstakingly went through the light work of ranking ten songs, on Christmas Eve, just for you. There’s a lot of songs that I could have added, including probably
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It’s the time of year where everybody gets all sentimental about the past twelve months, and I figured I would throw in my two cents, as well. And I’ll say something that’s going to seem bold to some and will cause others to groan, but it’s truly how I feel about the Milwaukee music scene right now… Something is really
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Earlier this week, FaltyDL released an album titled ///|\||\\\\ , and that got me thinking. There are a a lot of titles and band names out there, generally associated with indie artists, going by names that are either impossible to pronounce or not actual words at all. Not even restricting yourself to the structure of language?! That’s some next level
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I really don’t get to do the WHAT?! segment of the blog as much as I should, but this seems like a good one, with two ridiculous things that really happened over the last few days. Lil B Gave A Lecture at MIT You didn’t misread that one. And it’s not a community college whose initials happen to be MIT,
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Somehow, some way, I’ve managed to make it through all 11 nights of the world’s largest music festival for the first time in my life. Now, granted, I usually go multiple nights every year, but this was my first full pull for Summerfest. After taking a day off to rest, and also fully process everything that I’ve seen in the
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So here’s the deal. Last night, I intended on reviewing Girl Talk’s set at Summerfest, but from where I was standing in the massive crowd, it was almost impossible to hear him. It didn’t help that the sound at the Miller Oasis was turned down so much that I could hear the Harley-Davidson Roadhouse from the Oasis crowd. So, instead
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I am thrilled to announce that Breaking And Entering has been acquired by Facebook, and will now be part of a new hyper-local project called Facebook Sound. As of today, I will no longer be affiliated with the site, other than receiving an occasional paycheck. Mark Zuckerberg initially reached out to me about Sound when his attempt to acquire Snapchat
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So… All good things come to an end. In this case, SXSW 2014 went out with a bang for me. Just when I thought that I had experienced a lot of what Austin had to offer for free venues, I went with Uni-Fi Records, Higher Education Records, Klassik, MC Mikal and Fresh Cut Collective to “An Open Affair”, a backyard
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Before leaving the Milwaukee house for the day on Friday, a friend informed me that Fridays are usually the best days to be there. He was definitely not wrong; I think it was my favorite day so far. I went with the Uni-Fi Records crew to the Thirsty Nickel, where Dana Coppa and Klassik performed. Dana did a solo set
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Thursday at SXSW was, for me, predominately about hip hop. I started off way earlier than Wednesday, with my first stop being Crisp on 6th Street for a showcase. I saw a lot of new faces, including Alaskan rapper Baked Alaska, who rapped about climbing mountains and the trap… Grizzly Bear trap, that is. While I couldn’t necessarily relate, at
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Okay, so I’ll admit it… Sometimes I forget to do things. One of the things I never have time for is washing my car. So I let it slide (a lot.) In fact, Foursquare informed me that I hadn’t taken my 96 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera to the car wash since December 2012 (whoops). However, today it was really nice out,
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Hey everybody, It’s been a while since last time I filled you in about the current Breaking and Entering happenings, so here goes nothing. First off, a huge thank you to anyone that frequently visits the blog for new music. January 2014 was far and away the busiest month for the site traffic-wise, tripling December 2013 and doubling our busiest
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Fresh off the announcement of a re-released Mobb Deep album on the way, Prodigy and Alchemist released a new video for “IMDKV”, off of their collaboration album “Albert Einstein”. Prodigy hasn’t lost anything in all of his years of spitting, and he’s not lacking in toughness, either. Check out the video below.
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Hey everybody, I’ve been drafting this letter to you, the readers, in my head since about September, so it feels nice to finally put this all down on a page for you to read. I want to explain the current changes that are being made to BreakingAndEntering.net, and what you can expect from Breaking And Entering in the near future:
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What up world?! It’s been a minute or two since I’ve updated my blog. Sorry, apparently I had this whole school thing to finish up. Let me bring you up to speed again on where things are going… First off, I’m going to have a lot of content in the near future for you to check out. As I write
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‘Ello kiddies, It’s been a minute, but I finally have a chance to fill you guys all in on what’s been going on with Breaking And Entering, and me, and whatever else I can think of, really. First off, I cannot say thank you enough to everyone that’s been following us or liking us on Facebook and Twitter. It’s kind
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What’s up, everyone. Long time, no talk. So, let me fill you in on what’s going on. If you follow us on any of the social media sites that we have, you’ve seen that our new shirts finally came in. I’m so relieved. To be honest, I thought for awhile that I got scammed by our distributor in India, or
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Well… I’d be lying to you guys if I said that I wasn’t a little burnt out right now, because I am. I’ve just finished a semester, with one left to go until I graduate, and I guess that whole having a full time job and a life thing is the next step. Sounds lovely. In actuality, you guys have
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Yes. I used to have a blog on my website (AllenHalas.com). At first, it was supposed to be about what I was into at the moment. Then, it kind of spiraled from there. I’m not going to say that I didn’t like the music that was I was posting, because I genuinely did like whatever I posted. However, it got
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It has been entirely way too long since I presented another edition of #Snapped, where I bring you the best tweets about a particular topic or event. In “how-the-hell-did-they-do-that?” news, Tupac joined Snoop Dogg onstage last night at Coachella. If you haven’t seen it, I’m sorry that you forgot your Facebook/Twitter password. Here it is, anyway: Well, naturally, Twitter was
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Here’s the deal, guys. My wisdom teeth were removed yesterday, so I’ve been sitting around doing a whole lot of nothing. In the last day and a half or so my crowning achievements are putting together a wedding DVD for a friend’s sister, and starting to watch Mad Men. That being said, I went to Twitter to find another edition
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At the moment, this is the top trending topic on Twitter. Since I can’t retweet all of these, take a look at a few of my favorite awesomely bad supergroup names that people came up with: @MrsStephenFry (Mrs Stephen Fry): Earth, Wind and Arcade Fire @Jonh_Ingham (Jonh Ingham): 30 Seconds To Bruno Mars @SamGoldfield (Sam Goldfield): 45 Cents (50 Cent
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Welcome to the first edition of SNAPPED, a look at some of the funniest insults on a particular topic that I could find. Personally, I felt that the Black Eyed Peas / Usher / Slash (natural fit) had a terrible performance during the Super Bowl. While that business was happening on TV, I was much happier to look at Twitter.
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