What do the following authors have in common: J.D. Salinger, Emily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde? They are famous for writing just one novel.

J.D. Salinger? The Catcher in the Rye. Emily Brontë? Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde? The Picture of Dorian Gray. Home runs. Classics. Enduring favourites. Lasting fame. Millions of copies sold around the planet. But in each case, there were no follow-ups. They were all one and done.

J.D. Salinger became a recluse. Emily Brontë died shortly after the publication of Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde stayed with writing plays. As novelists go, they are all one-hit wonders.

When it comes to music, one-hit wonders are an endless source of amusement. How can someone become internationally famous for decades when they only have one song that anyone cares about?

These are special cases where lightning is captured exactly once. And no matter how many more songs these artists wrote, they would never, ever achieve that extreme level of fame again. A single song overshadows every other effort.

Let’s apply this to the history of alt-rock. What songs and artists qualify?

It took a bunch of research, but I think I managed to crack it using a combination of statistics. And we’re now up to episode four of five in this mission: the 50 all-time biggest alt-rock one-hit wonders.

Songs heard on this show:

• Doctor and the Medics, Spirit in the Sky
• Enigma, Sadeness (Part 1)
• Edwyn Collins, A Girl Like You
• Peter Schilling, Major Tom (Coming Home)
• White Town, Your Woman
• Meredith Brooks, Bitch
• Marcy Playground, Sex and Candy
• The Caesars, Jerk It Out
• Chumbawamba, Tubthumping
• The La’s, There She Goes

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

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Have you ever wondered why heavy metal singers can scream for hours on end, but other singers lose their voices all the time? You’d think it would be the other way around, right? Turns out there’s a weird answer to this medical mystery of music.

Using a special high-speed camera designed to visualize vocal cords, a speech doctor in San Francisco discovered that a heavy metal singer’s screaming is more like a baby’s than an adult’s. When a metal singer sings, they’re not actually straining their vocal cords. Their muscles relax and flap to create sounds, rather than squeezing out the loudness like most adults.

It’s a skill that babies instinctively use to protect their throats while crying and screaming, but is usually forgotten as they grow older. For whatever reason, heavy metal singers are still able to do it, and doctors hope they can teach the technique to patients with throat injuries and vocal issues.

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Music scenes flourish everywhere, even in Antarctica, the last true wilderness on Earth. Home to a few thousand research scientists, Antarctica has a unique historical music scene. In a place where the only sounds are the occasional penguin or cracking glacier, music is often what breaks the silence.

To keep up spirits with a link to civilization, the famous Captain Robert Falcon Scott brought two gramophones on his last expedition to the South Pole at the turn of the 20^th century. There are many reports of sailors singing to penguin colonies. No word on whether this pleased or annoyed the penguins. S

cientists based there today have their own little scene. The Argentinians really like metal, and the American base has a classical aficionado. The Ukrainian station is into folk, and some of its researchers even hold jam sessions. One Ukrainian scientist even built a piano in their lab to pass the long Antarctic winter.

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has played under several interesting band names in his career. There was a metal act in high school called Avant Garde. They later became Zoom, after experimenting with Prong and Power Chicken. When that band broke up, Cuomo joined a group called Sixty Wrong Sausages, which expanded into a four-piece in 1992. They remained nameless while they wrote and rehearsed, but name suggestions included Meathead, Outhouse, Hummingbird, The Big Jones, and This Niblet.

The name Weezer was a fluke. Actor Keanu Reeves and his alt band Dogstar decided to play an impromptu gig in Hollywood one evening and needed an opening act. Cuomo’s unnamed group got lucky and landed the slot, but now needed a name to perform under. Rivers suggested Weezer, the nickname he was teased with as a kid because of his inhaler. And, after a long meeting, Weezer ended up being the name.

Thank you, Keanu Reeves, for forcing the situation.

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Here’s a tale of old-school quality control. Neil Young, the Godfather of Grunge, recorded an album called Comes a Time in 1978. Getting it out was a battle. He kept rearranging track orders, fiddling with masters, swapping out album covers, and so on.

When it came time for final pressing, Neil realized he had overlooked a critical detail: he had accidentally approved a version of the record produced with damaged master tapes. Some of the high frequencies were missing from the album.

By the time he alerted the record company, 200,000 copies of Comes A Time had already been manufactured and shipped around the world. Acknowledging his error, Neil Young paid out of pocket, to the tune of $160,000, to have the album recalled. If you’re wondering, that’s almost 600 grand in 2017 dollars.

And to make sure the recalled records never saw the light of day, Young brought the cases to his ranch and shot them up with a rifle. Who among today’s artists would do the same?

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A Canadian woman was killed in a shooting at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids by a man who later took his own life on Monday, Mexican authorities said.

Mexico’s security cabinet said in a statement on X that several more people were injured in the shooting at the popular tourist and archaeological site outside Mexico City.

“Unfortunately, a woman of Canadian nationality lost her life,” a translation of the Spanish-language statement said.

The Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection said in its own statement that two people were found dead at the scene, including the suspected shooter, and that four others were injured by gunfire.

Two more people were hurt in falls during the shooting, it said, adding all those who were injured were transferred to hospital for treatment.

Global Affairs Canada did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on X that her government was in contact with the Canadian embassy and was investigating the shooting.

“What happened today in Teotihuacan deeply pains us,” she wrote in Spanish. “I express my most sincere solidarity with the affected individuals and their families.”

More to come…

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A B.C. politician is calling for the attorney general to step in after Premier David Eby backed down again on the pausing of key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), scrapping plans to table a suspension bill this legislative session.

“I am at a bit of a loss, and I think all British Colombians are, is that we have a premier that has lost control,” BC Conservative interim leader Trevor Halford told Global News on Monday.

“And I actually can’t even tell you who’s leading this province right now because clearly it’s not him. So for us, you know, we’ll be ready to debate any legislation that comes forward. But you know the problem is he’s going into one room saying one thing, going into another and saying another.”

Halford asked if Attorney General Niki Sharma is prepared to step in at this point.

“We’ve got a premier who said that there’s 20 cases before the courts right now, that decisions can come at any time, extreme legal liabilities, and yet he is he’s running for cover right now,” Halford said.

On Sunday, the premier’s office said in a brief statement that it “can confirm that the government will not be introducing legislation on DRIPA during this session.”

Eby will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. PT.

Initially, legislation to suspend parts of the DRIPA was set to be tabled this week.

It follows an open letter sent to B.C. MLAs by the First Nations Leadership Council, the First Nations Summit, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the BC Assembly of First Nations, laying out pushback had the bill be introduced.

“Any attempt to interfere with the courts’ role, and First Nations’ access to justice, will be met with collective resistance from First Nations and allies across the province,” the letter reads.

DRIPA has been at the heart of several B.C. court rulings on mineral and land rights and Eby has previously said that those decisions have put the province at risk of litigation.

In a statement, the BC Green Party said it presented Sharma last week with a “constructive path forward on its advancement” when it comes to DRIPA.

“The Government has spent months avoiding and delaying good faith negotiations with First Nations. We hope that they have now realized that the only path forward is active reconciliation, as defined in legislation,” BC Green House Leader Rob Botterell, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands said in a statement.

“The problem isn’t DRIPA. The problem is the government’s failure to implement DRIPA. We provided a constructive plan to resolve tension, increase certainty, and advance DRIPA to the government.”

BC Green Leader Emily Lowan said Eby should be taken off the reconciliation file.

“Premier Eby bears full responsibility for the social and economic disruption of attempting to weaken the rights of Indigenous people,” Lowan stated in the release.

“The spineless waffling week by week is not leadership. It has undermined trust in government and weakened the foundation reconciliation requires. The Premier has fomented misinformation and allowed hate to spread. The government has a long road to repair that.”

This story will be updated when Eby speaks about the issue.

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Amazon is set to discontinue multiple of its early Kindle devices as of May 20, 2026, a move that will prevent users from being able to buy or borrow more e-books on the devices.

In an emailed statement to Global News, Amazon confirmed that “customers using Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store.”

“These models have been supported for at least 14 years — some as long as 18 years — but technology has come a long way in that time, and these devices will no longer be supported moving forward,” an Amazon spokesperson wrote.

The impacted devices are listed as:

• Kindle: Kindle 1st Generation (2007), Kindle 2nd Generation (2009), Kindle DX and DX Graphite (2009 and 2010), Kindle Keyboard (2010), Kindle 4 (2011), Kindle Touch (2011), Kindle 5 (2012), and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation (2012).

• Kindle Fire Tablets: Kindle Fire 1st Gen (2011), Kindle Fire 2nd Gen (2012), Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012), Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (2012).

Amazon said that the company is “notifying those still actively using them and offering promotions to help with the transition to newer devices,” also adding that “their accounts and Kindle Library also remain fully accessible through the free Kindle app and Kindle for Web.”

Are you a Canadian Kindle user impacted by the discontinuation? Reach out using the form below or email us at shareyourstory@globalnews.ca to let us know what the move means for you, and we may be in touch for future articles.

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Data released on Monday by the Bank of Canada says that “the share of firms planning or budgeting for a recession in Canada over the next 12 months” dropped in February, before the Iran war began.

The data showed the sentiment declined from 22 per cent to nine per cent, marking the lowest level since the series began in 2023 and coming at a time when “concerns around trade tensions and tariffs were at a peak.”

The survey was conducted from Feb. 5 to 25 — before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28 in a war that has sent shockwaves through global supply chains.

“Expectations at all horizons remain below the peak reached during the height of the trade conflict in early 2025,” the survey reads.

The survey is based on interviews with about 100 firms across the country, stating that “trade tensions are weighing less on firms’ outlooks.”

“Compared with recent quarters, fewer businesses reported impacts on their expected sales or costs,” the survey reads. “As a result, firms began the first quarter of 2026 better positioned than they were in late 2025 to face the economic shock associated with the war in the Middle East.”

Despite these improvements, “outlooks remain subdued among firms in, or serving, industries that are facing export tariffs or that are indirectly impacted by U.S. trade policies.”

Fewer businesses also reported that they faced obstacles to growing their export sales due to uncertainty around U.S. and Canada’s trade relationship.

“For example, fewer firms indicated that they are hesitant to enter the U.S. market or that U.S. customers are hesitant to use Canadian suppliers,” the survey reads, with just a “small share” of exporting firms reporting increased sales to non-U.S. customers.

“Most businesses had revised up their expectations for input prices, mentioning specifically fuel, freight, fertilizers and exchange rates.”

According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business’ March report, higher overall costs for businesses were one of the main reasons for a drop in optimism.

Fuel costs, specifically, saw the largest monthly jump among the options survey respondents could select for what was contributing to their overall cost pressures at 50 per cent, which was up by 14 percentage points.

Canada had produced 32.8 per cent — around 76.1 million tonnes — of the world’s total potash, a key mineral in fertilizers, in 2024, remaining the world’s largest potash producer, according to Natural Resources Canada.

The war in Iran has also had experts saying that Canadians are “unlikely to see a notable change in food, fuel or oil prices in the near future” earlier this month.

The Bank of Canada is set to announce the latest interest rates on April 29.

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Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after two people were seriously injured following a police pursuit in Lindsay, Ont., early Sunday.

According to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the incident began just before 3:30 a.m. when a Kawartha Lakes Police Service officer first responded to a 911 call for “unknown trouble.”

The officer located a parked BMW vehicle of interest and attempted to park behind it at Victoria Avenue and Regent Street.

The SIU reports the vehicle fled and a pursuit ensued.

Investigators say a “short time later,” the BMW first crashed into a parked vehicle along Victoria Avenue South before eventually landing on top of another parked car at Victoria Avenue and Glenelg Street West.

A-21-year-old man driving the car was taken to Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, while a 32-year-old woman was transported to a Toronto hospital.

The SIU is an independent agency that investigates incidents involving police that have resulted in civilian death, serious injury or alleged sexual assault.

Due to the injuries involved, the SIU invoked its mandate.

The SIU is requesting anyone who witnessed the pursuit to contact them.

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