Tue. music pick: Big Data

When M.I.A. connected Google to the U.S. government in the 2010 song "The Message," essentially predicting 2013's NSA surveillance scandal, she was largely dismissed. Now, though, artists regularly warn of the noxious effects of technology — from a recent "Broad City" episode to Charli XCX's "Famous" video. Via his appropriately named project Big Data, Brooklyn producer Alan Wilkis is the latest to attack Internet culture. BD's debut album, "2.0," was released last week and features a range of talented vocalists — such as soul-pop goddess Kimbra and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo — singing about their distrust of society's codependent relationship with technology. Chappo and semi-locals On an On open. Alex Nelson