In January 1996, Bono and his family were on vacation as guests of fellow musician Jimmy Buffett. Buffett had been extolling the awesomeness of genuine Jamaican jerk chicken, so the decision was made to pick some up.

The fact they were in Miami was no problem because Buffett had a Grumman HU-16 Albatross flying boat he called Hemisphere Dancer. He got it cheap from the US Navy and could fly it himself.

Buffett, Bono, his family, Island Records head Chris Blackwell, and a co-pilot piled into the plane and set course for Montego Bay. But once they arrived, the water was too rough to land, so they diverted to Negril.

However, this diversion was unannounced and when local authorities saw the plane, they assumed it belonged to another drug runner. So they opened fire. More than 100 rounds were fired at the plane with several hitting the fuselage and shattering the windscreen. Fortunately, no one was hurt, no one was charged, and everyone soon hightailed it back to Miami.

There’s no word on whether Bono got his jerk chicken.

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The early days of punk were anything-goes times. The idea was to do virtually everything differently, especially you could be extra strange and provocative.

Enter The Cramps, a New York-based band that was a regular at the legendary CBGB. But their most famous show was with a San Franciso band called The Mutants. In 1978, the two of them journeyed to Napa to play a free show for the psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital.

The whole thing was captured on film and released as a 27-minute documentary called, We Were There to Be There. Why did they do it? To bring attention to government efforts to defund and privatize mental healthcare.

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If you’re into the White Stripes and Jack White and you’re looking for the Holy Grail of those songs, you want a 7-inch single released on October 3. 1998, released on Italy Records, a long-gone Detroit label, and originally sold for six dollars. S

ide one features “Lafayette Blues” while the B-side is “Sugar Never Tasted So Good.” This was the second-ever White Stripes single and only 15 copies are known to exist. However, one of those 15 is very special.

Fourteen 14 were created by Dave Buick, the owner of Italy Records while one features the work of Jack White. While Buick’s versions sell for around $525 on the collector’s market, the Jack Version sold for sold for $25,000 US dollars in June 2026.

This makes it one of the most valuable singles in the history of vinyl.

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It’s always risky when you corral a bunch of humans in a field for one, two, three days, or more. The promise is that everyone will have fun experiencing music and the company of like-minded music fans.

But humans being humans, things will go wrong. It could be something as common as bad weather. Not much you can do about that except do your best to prepare for that contingency, whether it be blistering heat or pouring rain.

But then there are cases where carelessness, negligence, criminal behaviour, and even terrorism destroy everything.

Once the dust settles and lawsuits are settled, promoters, venues, and music fans pick themselves up and move on, hopefully learning something from the disaster they survived—but others didn’t.

This is why it feels so strange that there are music festival disasters that people either don’t know about or have forgotten entirely.

This is episode 73 of “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.” And this is the second half of stories involving music festival disasters that have been forgotten or swept from history, even though people have been hurt and even died.
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Pretty much all the songs we listen to today features multiple tracks of instrumentation and vocals. The term for this is “polyphonic.” But when did the idea of layering music begin?

The earliest evidence of a piece of music with two parts—at least one that was written down—is from around the year 900 when someone wrote something praising Saint Boniface, the patron saint of Germany. It was discovered in 2014 after the strange notation—a way of writing down music before the modern music notation was invented—was translated.

Musicologist now consider this composition, which appears at the end of a manuscript called Life of Bishop Maternianus of Reims, to have lain the foundations for Western music that have lasted for more than a thousand years.

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Now that we’re starting our first full week after summer, we probably could use some fresh tunes to ease the pain. The Five Songs You Must Hear list features some appropriately aggressive stuff.

1. K.Flay, Ants
Single (Bummer Picnic Records)
Recommended If You Like: Fighting against adversity

Kristine Meredith Flaherty has a new album coming sometime in the near future, her sixth and first since Mono in 2023. It’s also her first album since she suffered some serious hearing loss in her right ear due to an inoperable nerve issue deep in her inner ear. This caused her to become totally deaf on that side and now requires a cochlear implant. The new album covers the emotions from that, as well as her newly sober lifestyle. If this first single is any indication, it sounds like it’s gonna be an emotional listen.

2. Scott Hellman, Mr. Record Label
Single (Fo Fum Records)
RIYL: Hating on your record label

Scott has seven JUNO nominations under his belt yet somehow (at least in his telling) didn’t get the appropriate respect from his record company. This song was written from personal experience. Here are some lyrics: “Mr. Record Label got a really fast car/And he drives into Hollywood/Parallel pakrs/And knows when he hears a “hit”/And he couldn’t write for sh*t.” This is destined to become a great screw-the-music-industry song.

3. Stuck on Planet Earth, Sun Gazing
All But Nothing (Coady./Anthem)
RIYL: Bands from the city above Toronto

Stuck on Planet Earth (est. 2007 Vaughn, Ontario) played live for years before they managed to release a debut album in 2020—which, of course, wasn’t the greatest time for the music industry. They were able to get back on track and now have a record called All But Nothing, which features collaborations with Brendon Benson, Jack White’s buddy in The Raconteurs. And yeah, there are some 90s feels here.
Listen on Spotify

4. Bad Wolves, Jolene
Single
RIYL: Dolly Parton with a side of controversy

In January 2018, Bad Wolves was all set to record a cover of The Cranberries’ “Zombie” with guest vocals from Dolores O’Riordan. Before she could do that, she died. They released the song, anyway, and it became a hit. In August 2026, Bad Wolves was all set to record a cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” Then she died. They’ve released it, but before not guitarist AJ Rebollo quit the band, saying it was “too soon.” They released it anyway. Note to other artists: Reconsider collaborations with Bad Wolves.

5. Midnight Syndicate, Echoes of the Past
Plankett’s Grove (Independent)
RIYL: Horror music

This Cleveland band is all about horror. They describe themselves as “foundational audio architects of the haunt, Halloween, and tabletop gaming industries.” There are two guys: Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka. This new album features 18 tracks designed to transport listeners into a shadowy realm of gothic mystery and dark fantasy…building on nearly three decades of pioneering ‘soundtracks to imaginary films.’”
Listen on Spotify

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When CDs first appeared in 1983, one of the things were sold was that they would deliver perfect sound forever. Not quite.

If you’re into collecting physical media like CDs (and DVDs, Blu-rays, and old-school Laserdiscs, for that matter), a big threat is “disc rot.” This occurs when the glue binding the two thin slabs of plastic protecting the data on the reflective slice of aluminum in the centre dries out, allowing for oxidation to creep in. The result is discolouration—usually a bronze stain—visible spots, cloudy bits, and even holes. When that happens, the data contained therein is irretrievably lost.

Fortunately, the condition is rare if you store your media properly. That means keeping your discs away from extreme temperatures, excessive humidity, and direct sunlight. Cheap discs suffer more than properly manufactured ones. According to Sony, one of the co-developers of this optical technology, a properly store CD should last between 30 and 100 years.

Meanwhile, vinyl is pretty much forever as long as you keep it away from heat.

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Friends, family and loved ones of 37-year-old Rebecca Wilson gathered outside Regina’s Legislative Building Friday evening to remember and honour her life.

Wilson, referred to as ‘Becca’ or ‘Becky’ by those who knew her, was described by family as a devoted older sister, a woman of faith and someone of strong character. Her sister, Katie Wilson, said Rebecca was a creative person who spent a lot of time painting and writing.

“As her sister, there’s a huge gap now and I’ll never be able to fill it the same way,” said Katie Wilson. “It’ll never be the same.”

The family took turns speaking about Rebecca Wilson, describing her as funny, loyal and a huge loss for the family. Wilson said the circumstances around the death make the loss that much more difficult.

“She didn’t just die. She didn’t just pass away from some sickness or anything or some freak accident. She was murdered,” said Wilson.

Police are investigating.

Rebecca Wilson’s mother, Wendy Lerat Lynn said Wilson, who was the oldest of five, always embodied the trait of advocating for others.

“She took on being the big sister,” she said. “She did that on the playground too with other kids. She kind of was like that.”

Lerat said her daughter’s laugh was contagious and wanted people to remember Wilson as faithful, funny and an amazing human being.

“The way she ended, it didn’t do her any justice at all,” said Lerat.

Signs at the vigil called for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Lerat said what happened to her daughter is not an isolated incident.

“I understand there’s different degrees and understanding of murdered and missing Indigenous women,” said Lerat. “The more that people start to talk about it maybe it’ll become something that people will actually see.”

Rebecca Wilson was the victim of an aggravated assault on Aug. 14. She was found in an alley in the 1400 block of Wascana Street and died from her injuries on Aug. 30.

“There needs to be something more that is addressing why these women are being murdered,” said Lerat.

No arrests have been made in Wilson’s death.

“Our family will not stop, I will not stop. It is my mission to find truth for my sister, we will know the truth. The truth will come to light, it’s just a matter of when,” said Wilson.

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The City of Saskatoon says a combination of events is causing gridlock along a key stretch of road linking the University of Saskatchewan (USask), one of its hospitals and the downtown core.

Last Friday, the city opened the University Bridge to vehicle traffic after months of repair work and delays. But its reopening, coinciding with the end of summer vacations and the return of university students to the area for classes, is causing increased traffic, according to the city’s special projects manager.

“We’re not in control, obviously, of everything that people do as they commute. I think that we’re starting to see people who maybe heard that the bridge was open and wanted to try taking that route again, making that attempt and coming into those restrictions,” said Rob Dudiak.

The construction along College Drive is for the city’s bus rapid transit project known as Link. Currently, the city is implementing platforms along the stretch of road between Clarence and Cumberland Avenues, with single-lane traffic moving in each direction.

A number of intersection changes and restrictions are also in place on College Drive for the roadwork.

For many USask students, the construction causing gridlock is substantially lengthening their commutes and they tell Global News that exiting one parking lot area along Campus Drive is adding around half an hour to their travel times.

It took Global News 30 minutes to drive from Campus Drive near the student centre to the Campus and College Drive intersection.

In a statement, the university says it recognizes construction may affect travel times and encourages students facing delays to communicate with instructors.

“While construction may create temporary inconveniences, these projects will provide long-term improvements to campus infrastructure, accessibility and transportation access,” USask said.

Dudiak says the city is working with the university and the Saskatchewan Health Authority to make adjustments to alleviate the traffic backlog, adding that the city has noticed a reduction in traffic in the past two days.

“We spent over a year planning the way that the sequence would take place,” Dudiak said.

“Obviously, there’s a difference in looking at it as part of a planned sequence and then what we see in reality day to day, which then we try and monitor and make adjustments as we can in order to reduce the pressure and frustration for everyone.”

Dudiak says emergency vehicles can use the new transit lanes added on College to bypass traffic. Medavie Health Services West, which operates the city’s ambulance system, told Global News in a statement that it is not experiencing significant delays getting into Royal University Hospital, located just off of College Drive.

“Our zone-based deployment model allows us to adapt to changing circumstances which allows us to continue to operate safely and effectively with no impact to patient care,” Medavie said.

Meanwhile, the Cancer Agency says in a statement that it will still accommodate patients who are late for appointments at the Cancer Centre located next to the hospital, or reschedule as required.

Road closures still in effect

A number of road closures remain in effect in the area, including reduced lanes along College Drive, with one lane in each direction east of Hospital Drive through to Cumberland Avenue.

The exit from the University Bridge to Saskatchewan Crescent will remain closed, though the city says it will re-open “in the coming days,” according to the city.

Meanwhile, construction on 25th Street continues, with lane restrictions extending to the bridge. The intersection between 25th Street and 2nd Avenue North remains closed as well.

Dudiak says work will continue along College Drive until it is completely paved by the end of October, when the construction is most “reliable.”

“It’s very dependent, right? Obviously, we have no control over when that actually takes place, but they’ll work as long as possible,” Dudiak said.

“When we reach winter we don’t want to be in a situation where there’s still temporary traffic controls in place over the course of the winter.”

The city is completing this project along College Drive in two phases. The second phase, slated for next year, will continue platform construction between Cumberland and Preston Avenues.

Saskatoon closed the University Bridge on April 6 for repairs, initially planning to reopen it in June. That timeline was later pushed to mid- to late July because of weather-related construction delays, according to the city.

Additional repairs for the bridge also increased the project’s cost by $213,000, bringing the total to $1.7 million.

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