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Dig below the strata of pop songs so ubiquitous you can't stand to hear them anymore, and you'll find plenty of riches in the Top 40, from country crossover to innovative R&B and classic pop.

Voters are more concerned with inflation, according to Democrats in competitive races who are trying to gauge how the hearings will affect November's midterms.

The British band Coldplay tops the Billboard 200 this week with its latest album.

The group first broke up in 2003 but got back together in 2009. It's not clear why the band is taking a break, but the "Parklife" singer told a French magazine that it felt like the right thing to do.

Host Liane Hansen talks with Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, about the resignations of two members of President Bush's economic team and the re-election victory of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA).

Band leader Woody Herman. Herman was the leader of numerous big bands, all variously called The Thundering Herd. His bands were noted for their dazzling improvisation combined with their incisive ensemble playing. He died in 1987.

White, the younger brother of the band's founder and principal songwriter Maurice White, joined the group in the mid-1970s and went on to lay the backbone for hits like "September" and "Shining Star."

South Carolina is the latest state to debate a six-week abortion ban. The state's Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday.

A dozen high-school marching bands competed in the national marching band championships earlier this week in Phoenix. It's part of the run up to the Fiesta Bowl on Friday, but as Mark Moran of member station KJZZ reports, most of the band members aren't interested in the national college football championship.

Host Scott Simon talks with band director George Bookataub of the Westbrook High School marching band in Maine about why they had to turn down an invitation to perform at the presidential inauguration.