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On Second Stage, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton profiles the best of music's great unknowns. He chooses the best outsider artists of 2007: musicians who made remarkable recordings that were largely overlooked, led by Le Loup.

A famous trio has lost a founding member. Musician Adam "MCA" Yauch died Friday of cancer. Host Scott Simon has this remembrance of one of the founding members of The Beastie Boys, a band that helped make hip-hop mainstream.

Susan Stamberg reports on the story behind Irving Berlin's hit "Alexander's Ragtime Band."

It was an unusually strong year for great unknown artists. While bigger, more established bands continued to attract the most attention, smaller, lesser-known acts made the most memorable music of 2008. All of the great unknown artists featured here made music that was inspired, original and heartfelt.

Wrap up ROADSHOW’s Rosecliff visit in this half-hour RECUT episode. Plus, a $100K find!

In the 19th and 20th centuries, nearly every coal mine in the U.K. had a brass band. They were intended to keep workers out of trouble, and were a matter of civic pride for local communities. Today, some say that without funding, the bands could become a thing of the past.

A court sentenced the three members of the female punk band Pussy Riot to two years in jail after they were found guilty of hooliganism and religious hatred. The group had staged an anti-Putin protest in Moscow's main cathedral last February.

Georgia looms large in politics — both in the ongoing Jan. 6 committee's work, and in upcoming elections.

Morgan State University in Maryland competes Saturday in its first Honda Battle of the Bands performance in Montgomery, Alabama. It's the largest showcase for HBCU marching bands in the country.

If President Trump wins reelection and a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans with preexisting health conditions could lose access to health insurance or pay much more.