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Stream of the Week: The Strokes — At the Door
When the Strokes started showing up in New York clubs in the late ‘90s, they were quickly dubbed the saviours of rock ‘n’ roll. That’s a lot of weight on a young band’s shoulders, but the group wound up becoming one of the flag-bearers of the garage-rock movement, thanks to albums such as Room on Fire, First Impressions of Earth and Angles.
The Strokes haven’t recorded since 2013, but the group has been holed up in the studio working on its sixth album, The New Abnormal, which comes out April 10,
At warmup tour dates, Julian Casablancas and crew debuted singles The Adults Are Talking, Bad Decisions and Ode to the Mets. A lot has changed in the last seven years since Comedown Machine was released, meaning an uncertainty that puts the new album under increased scrutiny.
Calorie
Even as we transition into 5G technology, the collection, dissemination and sale of personal data — from apps that track your location to fitness apps that track your diet or workout habits — is already out of control.
Users have become complacent or may not even know their information is being tracked and gathered and sold to third parties.
One of the worst culprits is health-centred apps that claim to track your nutrients. Even a simple calorie-counter app can reveal a lot about the user’s daily patterns, habits and buying preferences. One way to keep track of what you’re eating while protecting yourself from losing control over your data is the app Calorie. It is a decentralized application that uses Blockstack to secure and encrypt your vital data. Only you have access to the data, ensuring it isn’t being resold, profiled or fed into any algorithms.
It may not seem like a big deal now, but privacy, data-based profiling and online security will only increase as society moves to more technological and data-driven solutions. A look at how China has used data during protests in Hong Kong and during the recent COVID-19 outbreak is an indicator of where things could head.
Video of the Week: Pull Up Season 3 Episode 1 — featuring Big Sean
Although the buzz around hip hop-MC-turned-social-media critic Joe Budden continues to grow after Spotify picked up his podcast network, not much has changed in the former Slaughterhouse rapper’s approach to guests, the industry and A-list artists.
Kicking off the third season of his solo talk show, the man known as “the Howard Stern of hip hop” brought in hip hop artist Big Sean to talk about the state of the industry and the changes happening within it.