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After a 13-year break the Long Beach-based punk reggae group Sublime is back together with a new vocalist and will debut at the SmokeOut Festival in late-October. Exciting new releases for this fall include albums by Shakira, Eminem, The Roots and Mary J. Blige.

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Bob Dylan is in the studio, working on a charity LP of Christmas standards including “Winter Wonderland” and “Little Drummer Boy.” Manchester rocker Noel Gallagher has quit his (family) band – Oasis -- (again), explaining, "I simply could not go on working with (brother) Liam a day longer." Madonna has made history as her 85-date Sticky & Sweet Tour wraps in Israel, the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo act, raking in more than $400 million over the past year.

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Chuck Berry’s “Johnnie B. Goode,” Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” and Journey’s “Don’t stop Believin’” are among the top downloaded tracks for their respective decades. McCain was forced to pay up and apologize to Jackson Browne for using the song “Running on Empty” in a campaign ad against Barack Obama last fall. Rihanna is training to become a tattoo artist.

Roll Considers Rolling Stone Magazine's BEST JAMS OF PAST 20 YEARS

According to ROLLING STONE (8-20-09 issue), here are the BEST SUMMER JAMS of the PAST 20 YEARS …

1990 – “The Humpty Dance” – Digital Underground
1991 – “O.P.P.” – Naughty By Nature
1992 – “Baby Got Back” – Sir Mix-a-lot
1993 – “Cannonball” – The Breeders
1994 – “Gin and Juice” – Snoop Doggy Dogg
1995 – “Waterfalls’ – TLC
1996 – “C’Mon N’ Ride It (The Train)” – Quad City DJ’s
1997 – “Mo Money, Mo Problems” – Notorious B.I.G.
1998 – “Are You That Somebody” – Aaliyah
1999 – “Bawitdaba” – Kid Rock
2000 – “The Real Slim Shady” – Eminem
2001 – “Get Ur Freak On” – Missy Elliott
2002 – “Hot in Herre” – Nelly
2003 – “Crazy in Love” – Beyonce
2004 – “Mr. Brightside” – The Killers
2005 – “Gold Digger’ – Kanye West
2006 – “Crazy’ – Ganrls Barkley
2007 – “Umbrella’ – Rihanna
2008 – “Paper Planes” – M.I.A.
2009 – “Boom Boom Pow” – Black Eyed Peas

…Roll is left to wonder what the editors could have been thinking when they chose the Best Jams for years 1996 and 2004 …