Kicking off the show with new music from BADBADNOTGOOD, who are coming to the Masonic Temple on May 13 with Baby Rose, plus fresh selections from Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Smerz, Bon Iver, The Bug Club and more.

And a very happy birthday to one of the greatest Motown voices of all time — Tammi Terrell!

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for April 29, 2025

• “Found A Light (Beale Street)” – BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R
• “Why Am I Alive Now?” – ANOHNI
• “You’re All I Need to Get By” – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
• “California Soul” – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
• “Right On” – Marvin Gaye
• “Wholy Holy” – Marvin Gaye
• “Silver” – Say She She
• “I’ll Be There” – Bon Iver
• “If Only I Could Wait (feat. Danielle Haim)” – Bon Iver
• “Flames shards goo” – ML Buch
• “Gangsters” – Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
• “Roll The Dice” – Smerz
• “Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me (Long Version)” – Peter Brown
• “Storm” – Rare Silk
• “Lightworks” – J Dilla
• “Kaytranada_Waitin_115 Bpm (KAYTRANADA Remix)” – Kelela & KAYTRANADA
• “LITE SPOTS” – KAYTRANADA
• “Do the Astral Plane” – Flying Lotus
• “Need U (100%) [feat. A*M*E] [Radio Edit]” – Duke Dumont
• “You got time and I got money” – Smerz
• “Bitter Sweet Symphony” – The Verve
• “I Think I’m in Love” – Spiritualized
• “Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds” – The Beatles
• “First Wave Intact” – Secret Machines
• “Comfort Eagle” – CAKE
• “The Distance” – CAKE
• “How to Be a Confidante” – The Bug Club
• “Legal Man” – Belle and Sebastian

Listen to In the Groove with host Ryan Patrick Hooper weekdays from noon-3 p.m. ET on 101.9 WDET or stream on-demand at wdet.org.

In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, Lady Blackbird (pictured above), new songs from Bon Iver, Robert Randolph and Natalie Bergman (new on Third Man Records) and much more!

See the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for Apr. 26, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Like A Ship (Without A Sail)” – Leon Bridges & Keite Young
  
• “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled” – Lady Blackbird
• “I’ll Be Okay” – Michigander
• “Wildfire Season” – Jobi Riccio
• “Be My Own Man” – Phillip Michael Scales
• “Isn’t She Lovely” – Stevie Wonder
  
• “Like A Rock” – Bob Seger
  
• “Ziplock” – Penny & Sparrow
• “Luke & Leanna” – Craig Finn
• “Ride” – B-52s (Kate Pierson turns 77!)

• “From” – Bon Iver
• “There She Goes” – Curtis Harding
• “Gunslinger” – Natalie Bergman
• “Flowers” – Durand Jones & The Indications
• “Lord Have Mercy” – Durand Jones (Acoustic Cafe performance, 2023)
• “What Was That” – Lorde
• “Witness” – The Wood Bros.
• “Staring” – Renée Elise Goldsberry
• “Shine” – Joy Clark (Acoustic Cafe performance, 2025)
• “Stuck In Reverse” – The Swell Season
• “Novelty” – Jensen McRae
• “Big Women” – Robert Randolph
• “Sex And Drugs And Rock & Roll” – Michael Franti & Spearhead
• “Still Bad” – Lizzo (Lizzo turns 37!)

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.

In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music we featured a new album of covers from Smokey Robinson, now 85, coming out next week. JR JR has announced an upcoming local show, The War and Treaty and much more!

See the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for Apr. 19, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Son Of Sam” – Elliott Smith (Figure 8 released 25 years ago this week)
• “People” – Galactic + Irma Thomas
• “Be Thankful For What You Got” – Smokey Robinson
• “Call It A Draw” – Uwade
• “Back To The Land” – JR JR
• “Day One” – Bon Iver
  
• “What To Make Of Me” – Olive Klug
  
• “I Don’t” – Madison McFerrin
• “World’s Worst Girlfriend” – Shura
• “Love Me Any Ole Way” – Valerie June
• “Garden Grove” – Jakob’s Castle (Jakob Nowell)
• “Ride” – Loren Kramar
• “Henry, Come On” – Lana Del Ray
  
• “Learn To Let Go” – The Doobie Brothers

• “Bottom Of A Barrell” – Julien Baker & TORRES
• “The Giver” – Chappell Roan
• “Late Night Get Down” – Southern Avenue
• “Can I Get An Amen” – The War and Treaty
• “Above Water” – Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men
• “The Black Dog & The Wandering Boy” – James McMurtry (2025)
• “Fuller Brush Man – James McMurtry (1995)
• “Lady Liberty” – Galactic + Irma Thomas
• “Boneyard” – Jon Cleary
• “Tangled Up In You” – The Altons (Acoustic Cafe in-studio performance)
• “Because” – Elliott Smith (Figure 8 released 25 years ago this week)

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.

The major highlights here are Bon Iver’s stunning new album (featuring Flock of Dimes, Dijon and Danielle Haim, just to name a few), plus new music discoveries from Smerz, Tirzah, Kelela, Lady Wray and more.

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for April 14, 2025

• “If Only I Could Wait (feat. Danielle Haim)” – Bon Iver
• “Day One (feat. Dijon & Flock of Dimes)” – Bon Iver
• “S.N.C.” – Darkside
• “Aruna” – DJ Koze
• “You got time and I got money” – Smerz
• “This Is How We Walk on the Moon (feat. Tirzah)” – Speakers Corner Quartet
• “Off Om” – Jeff Parker
• “..THUS IS WHY ( I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE )” – Saya Gray
• “Waitin’ (unplugged)” – Kelela
• “Charlie (feat. Lil Yachty)” – Lola Young
• “Wrap Myself Up In Your Love” – Say She She
• “Be A Witness” – Lady Wray
• “Best For Us” – Lady Wray
• “Violent Shiver” – Benjamin Booker
• “Defense” – Panda Bear & Cindy Lee
• “Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)” – Devo
• “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” – Neil Young
• “Could Be Forever” – Joshua Idehen
• “Give It To Me Baby” – Jarina De Marco
• “Back 2 Me (feat. Sadie Walker)” – Girls of the Internet
• “Donuts Mind If I Do” – CHAI
• “Locket” – Crumb
• “Where’s My Brain???” – The Lazy Eyes
• “Made To Stray (DJ Koze Remix)” – Mount Kimbie
• “Modern Love” – David Bowie
• “Let’s Dance” – David Bowie
• “Hunnybee” – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• “Rà-àkõ-st (Unknown Mortal Orchestra Version)” – Lindstrøm & Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• “Alacrán” – LA LOM
• “Sorrowful Horns (feat. James Mollison)” – Joe Armon-Jones
• “Ghost Town” – The Specials
• “Love and Happiness” – Al Green
• “I’m Glad You’re Mine” – Al Green
• “Everybody Hurts” – Al Green

Listen to In the Groove with host Ryan Patrick Hooper weekdays from noon-3 p.m. ET on 101.9 WDET or stream on-demand at wdet.org.