This New Music Friday performs two tasks: More set-ups for albums coming later this year and another wave of major spring album releases.

Singles

1. Beck, Ride Lonesome (Universal)

It seems like it’s been a while since we’ve heard from Beck. This new single (mixed by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead’s favourite studio guy) evokes all the feels from from Sea Change (2002) and Morning Phase (2015). Indications are that this sort of emotional approach is where Beck is heading with his next album.

2. mgk. Fred Durst, FIX UR FACE (Interscope)

Mgk and the Limp Bizkit’s beret-wearing frontman (which he’s traded for a ball cap and beard) have come up with something that takes us back to the early 2000s (think nu-metal) while also folding in some contemporary alt-rock. The video was filmed in Berlin, Dublin, London, Prague, Munich, Nashville, and Los Angeles while mgk was on tour.

3. Modest Mouse, Picking Dragons’ Pockets (Glacial Pace Recordings)

It’s been almost five since Modest Mouse had a new album (note the name of their label), but that absence has comes to an end with a couple of singles. Look How Far… was released in March, and now we have this track. An Eraser and a Maze, MM’s eighth album and their first as an indie act in more than 20 years, will be here on June 5. Fun fact: This started as an Isaac Brock solo album before he invited the rest of the band in.

4. Show Me the Body, Dance in the USA (Loma Vista/Concord)

Living in the US is not an easy thing right now. Show Me the Body, a post-hardcore band from NYC (est. 2009), understands this very, very well. Pay attention to lyrics like “a doll on a sting.” The album, Alone Together expands on those themes.

Albums

1. Atreyu, The End is Not the End (Spinefarm)

More aggression. Atreyu’s second act, which began in 2014 after a three-year break, and produced the band’s tenth album, which they started teasing with singles last September. The current single features Max Cavalera of Sepultura. The louder you play this, the better. Obviously.

2. Foo Fighters, Your Favourite Toy (Roswell/RCA)

We’re now up to an even dozen Foo Fighters studio albums. Not bad for a band led by the surviving member of Nirvana that no one expected to do anything once the band broke up. Like most of the albums this millennium, this one was record at the Foos’ private 606 Studios in Van Nuys, although tracks were also laid down in Dave’s home studio. Interesting: There’s a new production team here. It was co-produced by the band and engineer Oliver Roman, meaning that it’s the first time Greg Kurstin hasn’t been behind the desk for a Foo Fighters album since Sonic Highways in 2014. Oh, and let’s not forget new drummer, Ilan Rubin, too.

3. Metric, Romanticize the Dive (Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers)

This makes ten studio albums for Emily and James. This one gestated for about two-and-a-half years, which is pretty quick these days. This record, recorded at Electric Lady in New York (Jimi Hendrix’s favourite studio), arrives in time for the summer tour Metric is doing with Broken Social Scene and Stars. Early reviews have been excellent.

4. White Denim, 13 (Bella Union)

White Denim first came out of Austin, Texas, two decades ago, with a sound that mixes psych, blues, punk, and more, blended in songs that aren’t exactly structured in conventional way. As the album title says, this is the band’s thirteenth album.

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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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A feasibility study by the University of Manitoba and the Arctic Research Foundation is examining ways to extend the Port of Churchill’s shipping season and potential routes.

“We know with climate change the shipping season throughout the Hudson Bay has become longer and longer, and this time the port has only been opening for about three and a half months a year and we know it can be extended,” said Fei Wang, the director of the Churchill Marine Observatory and a professor at the University of Manitoba.

“This feasibility study is really based on existing data. (Looking) at to keep the Port of Churchill open all year round, to keep the shipping corridor open all year round, what kind of icebreaking capacity do we need?”

The research is being partially done at the University of Manitoba’s sea ice research facility on-campus, and at the Churchill Marine Observatory in Churchill, Man.

“The facility on campus actually allows us to grow sea ice in our own backyard to allow us to follow the growth and the melting of sea ice,” Wang said.

“At the Churchill Marine Observatory we’re doing something similar, but more under natural conditions.”

The study also assesses potential shipping routes and potential impacts on the environment and on northern communities.

“A big part of the route is making sure that we’re not crossing areas or disrupting ice where communities would be using it,” Arctic Research Foundation CEO Tom Henheffer told Global News.

Climate change is playing a major role in the changing ice conditions and the opportunity for extending the shipping season, Wang says.

“The Hudson Bay is on its trajectory to be essentially ice free by all year round,” he said.

“I think it’s being a cliche for me to say that Manitoba is a Maritime province,” Wang added.

“Often we think of Manitoba as a Prairie province, but as a Maritime province the future of Manitoba is going to be, to a large extent, really looking at the sea, the ocean that we have in the north. We’re on the verge of something big that’s really imposed to us by changing climate.”

Project timelines

Last week, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Prime Minister Mark Carney put a tight timeline on the project.

“He shared that he wanted to see LNG shipping out of there by 2030, which is a very, very aggressive timeline. And I took that as a challenge, basically,” Kinew told reporters during an unrelated press conference on Friday.

“That’s the prime minister’s timeline. If we want the Port of Churchill plus project to move forward, it has to move forward it in the next four years.”

It’s an ambitious, but not impossible timeline, according to Barry Prentice, the director of the Transport Institute at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business.

“If you put yourself on a war footing, it is (possible). You can get things done really fast if you want to,” Prentice told Global News. “I mean, we’ve seen these things drag out five, 10 years.”

“But I think if we really want to do it, I don’t think it should take that long,” he added.

Prentice says the Port of Churchill could have major economic benefits for Canada.

“If you look at western Canada, we’re a long way from European markets,” he said.

“At Churchill, you’re already as close to Europe as you are to Montreal. So in terms of distance, and distance matters in trade and costs, so a closer route would be less expensive so that means we get higher prices and maybe more profit.”

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A 74-year-old man was arrested for a homicide at a St. Anne’s Road apartment complex, according to the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS).

It happened just before 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday. When officers arrived at the scene in the Dakota Crossing neighbourhood they found an 80-year-old woman with fatal injuries, according to a news release from the police.

Investigators believe the accused knew his victim, it added.

The man was charged with second degree murder after being arrested by police at the apartment complex in the 1200 block of St. Anne’s Road, according to the WPS.

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Manitoba’s plan to charge cryptocurrency operations higher electricity rates and curtail power at peak times will drive businesses under, officials with two companies told a legislature committee.

“If this goes through, our business goes bankrupt and a lot of families will be impacted,” Guildo Theriault, co-founder and chief executive officer of Gator Mining, told a committee hearing Wednesday night.

The government has introduced two bills in the legislature that are aimed at controlling the growing demand on Crown-owned Manitoba Hydro’s electrical grid.

One bill would charge cryptocurrency operations and data centres up to 100 per cent higher rates for electricity. The other would allow Manitoba Hydro to temporarily reduce power to cryptocurrency operators at peak times in order to ensure stability of the grid.

Finance Minister Adrien Sala has said the changes are needed as Manitoba is a few years away from approaching its current capacity at peak times.

Sala has called cryptocurrency operations “low-value” economic drivers. They require a lot of computer power to register transactions in digital currency — a process called cryptocurrency mining. They also provide very few jobs in relation to their power usage, he said.

“We need to address the pressures that are being placed on the grid,” Sala told the committee.

“One of the challenges we are responding to is the growth of activities that require very large amounts of electricity on a continuous basis, such as cryptocurrency mining, often during periods when our system is under the greatest strain.”

Other provinces have taken similar steps. Hydro-Québec has applied to its provincial regulator to charge data centres and cryptocurrency operations roughly double the price it charges other large consumers.

British Columbia has banned new hydro connections to the electricity grid for cryptocurrency mining, saying unchecked growth in the sector was making it harder and more expensive to provide electricity to homes and other businesses.

Theriault and Gator Mining co-founder Alicia Rocke told the Manitoba legislature committee hearing their company operates in several locations around the province. They suggested changes to the bill including a grandfathering clause, which would protect businesses such as theirs that set up shop under the existing rules.

Brett Kristjanson, who is part of a numbered company that runs a crypto operation near Arborg, Man., said his business would likely go bankrupt as well, if the bills become law without changes.

“It’s going to just … be a wash of devastation of lost jobs and creditors chasing people,” he said.

Kristjanson said his company has a general manager, two technicians and a part-time bookkeeper. It has paid out more than $600,000 in wages over the last three years, he said, and pays $32,000 a year in property taxes.

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Willow, a black lab, was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog. However, the three-year-old canine didn’t care for the harness that comes with that job, sending her down a different path.

“Repurposed her into doing a career helping kids,” Sgt. Kerrie Webb with the Winnipeg Police Service’s internet child exploitation (ICE) unit said.

Willow is now a member of the ICE, working alongside Webb, her handler.

“Every single day, she comes to work. She hangs out in our office when we are not on the road. She does search warrants with us. She’s done search warrants with other units in our service,” Webb said.

Willow is an electronic storage detection K9 and has been on the job since last June.

“She’s trained specifically to find a chemical that’s used on all electronics that contain, or have the ability to contain, data. It’s a spray that’s used to prevent them from overheating,” Webb said.

The dog can find items such as hard drives, SD cards, AirTags and more. Willow sits next to the device once she finds it.

“Having Willow definitely makes search warrants more efficient,” Webb said. “She can pinpoint where we should be looking and now on several different warrants, she has found devices we wouldn’t have found if it wasn’t for her.”

Willow comes from Our Rescue, a United States-based non-profit that works to end human trafficking and child exploitation.

“Offenders will go to great lengths to hide or disguise electronic storage devices,” Chaz Balogh, Our Rescue electronic storage detection K9 relationship manager, said.

OUR Rescue provides police agencies around the world with electronic storage detection dogs, like Willow. The organization funds the dog and covers ongoing costs while the K9s are working.

“We literally try to do everything we can to make sure that agency is going to be successful,” Balogh said.

Willow is the only electronic storage detection dog in Manitoba. Maintaining her skills is a 24/7 commitment.

“Our dogs are all food-driven, which means the handler has to feed this dog twice a day by hand to give them their daily food allowance. If they’re not on a search warrant, that’s how they have to feed their dogs,” Balogh said.

On top of having an incredible nose, Willow is also trained as a service dog. She provides a helping paw when needed.

“She sits in with victims when they’re giving statements,” Webb said. “Just as importantly, she’s just with us in the office. My team has a difficult job — it’s a dark job. Just having her around lightens the mood and just brings comfort and wellness to all of us.”

As Willow wraps up her rookie year on the force, Webb is in awe of the amazing efforts from her furry partner.

“I can’t say enough good things about having her.”

A dog with a job and a big heart.

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An Alberta man is in a pickle after police say he called 911 to report that drive-thru staff were refusing to give him a burger.

RCMP say the man called shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday to say staff at a fast-food restaurant in downtown Red Deer were demanding he leave even though he did nothing wrong — adding he drove 35 minutes to get a burger.

Mounties say the man admitted to being intoxicated and said he was waiting for police to arrive as he still wanted a burger.

Officers spoke with staff who said they had explained to the man that their systems were down, and they weren’t able to serve him.

RCMP say officers determined the man was the driver of the car and he allegedly refused to provide a breath sample.

The 38-year-old man from Sylvan Lake received an immediate roadside sanction and his vehicle was seized.

“Red Deer RCMP remind all drivers to plan ahead and arrange a designated driver if you have consumed alcohol or other intoxicating substances,” police said in a news release Thursday.

“There is no room on our roads for impaired drivers.”

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A B.C. MLA is calling for groups that received funding following the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy to return any unused funds to the victims and their families.

Mable Elmore, who is the MLA for Vancouver-Kensington, where the incident happened, has written a letter to United Way BC.

“Following the tragedy, communities across Vancouver, the province, and the whole country came together to donate to help those were impacted,” Elmore wrote in the letter.

“For your part, United Way BC launched Kapwa Strong Fund, which raised more than $2 million. A large portion of the fund or more than $1.5 million went towards nearly 40 organizations, and the balance representing the largest share of almost $500,000 was allotted to the festival organizer.”

Four days following the tragedy, in which 11 people were killed and dozens more were injured, United Way BC announced the fund, saying 100 per cent of donations will directly support those affected by the tragic events.

United Way BC ended up handing out 45 grants to organizations that applied.

The committee that decides is made up of eight people — four from United Way BC and four external members.

Full breakdown of the Lapu Lapu tragedy donations and where the money went

Global News has heard from victims of the Lapu Lapu tragedy that they are not getting the financial support or help they expected.

Elmore said she wants United Way BC to ask recipients of the Kapwa Strong Fund to return any leftover or unspent funds so that United Way can disburse that money directly to survivors and families of victims.

“We know after the terrible tragedy, there was just an incredible outpouring of support and care and donations flooded in to help support victims and survivors,” Elmore told reporters on Thursday.

“I’ve met with them and heard that they still continue to struggle, and so really my message is to provide that support and for the donations that came in, if there are remaining funds that organizations have in light of how victims and families and survivors say they continue to need support to return that to ensure that it can be dispersed directly to them to support them.”

Elmore added that she has heard from many victims and families that they are only now feeling the strength to come together and share their stories.

“It breaks my heart but my message is that we have to support them in their grief, they will, you know have that unimaginable loss of their loved ones who’ve been killed and many who’ve been injured and so it’s listening to their stories in hearing their difficulties and struggles that they still continue to need help, that we have to continue to help and support them,” she said.

“I appreciate the outpouring of support and the Filipino community and the broad community continues to stand with victims and survivors and there’s more help that we can offer.”

Global News has reached out to United Way BC for comment on the request.

April 26 marks the one-year anniversary of the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy.

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A crew member aboard the fire truck that crashed into an Air Canada Jazz aircraft landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in March told investigators he did not realize a radio transmission of “stop stop stop” was meant for them until they had entered the runway, investigators said Thursday.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report said the driver of another truck had relayed the command to “Truck 1” after seeing the approaching aircraft shortly before the deadly collision, which killed the two Air Canada pilots and injured 39 other people.

“The turret operator in Truck 1 recalled hearing the words ‘stop stop stop’ … but he did not know who that transmission was intended for,” it continues.

“He subsequently heard “Truck 1 stop stop stop” and realized it was for them and subsequently noticed that they had entered the runway. He further recalled that as they turned left, he saw the airplane’s lights on the runway.”

A total of seven airport and police vehicles, including the fire truck, were responding to an unspecified emergency at one of the airport terminals prior to the accident. The vehicles were proceeding from the nearby fire station to the terminal as the Air Canada flight was approaching the runway.

A timeline of the incident says the fire truck had requested to cross the runway with the other trucks and was cleared to proceed by air traffic control, but was then twice told to stop seconds before the collision.

The report says the aircraft’s last recorded ground speed before the collision was 167 kilometres per hour (107 miles per hour, or 90 knots).

Investigators did not draw any conclusions or assign blame in the report, but rather lay out the evidence collected so far through interviews, reviews of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and surveys of the crash scene.

The report does not raise any issues with air traffic controller staffing or the conduct of the pilots or flight crew onboard the plane.

It said a crash prevention system didn’t generate an audio or visual alert in the control tower, and that runway entrance lights that act as stop lights for crossing traffic were on until about three seconds before the March 22 collision. The system is designed to turn the lights off two or three seconds before a plane reaches an intersection, the report said.

The system, known as ASDE-X, didn’t work as intended at the time because none of the ground vehicles were outfitted with a transponder, investigators said. The proximity of the vehicles merging kept the system from triggering an alarm, investigators said.

“At the time of the accident, ASDE-X displayed only two radar targets (at the intersection), rather than all seven of the response vehicles as distinct targets at their respective locations,” the report said.

The plane, a CRJ900 regional jet from Montreal, had more than 70 people on board. Pilots Antoine Forest, 24, and Mackenzie Gunther, 30, were killed. About 40 people, including the two people in the fire truck, were taken to hospitals.

—With files from The Associated Press

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