A busy splash back into the week! New releases from Snocaps, English Teacher, Big Thief, Dry Cleaning and a special spotlight on “Naive Melodies”—a “visionary tribute album reimagining Talking Heads through the lens of Black musical innovation” courtesy of BBE Music.

Plus Kaleigh Wilder stops by to talk about her return as host to Visions on WDET. If you haven’t listened yet, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR! Hope you enjoy!

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In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for November 3, 2025

• “Coast” – Snocaps
• “Dollar Store (feat. Waxahatchee)” – Ben Kweller
• “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab (Daniel Avery Remix)” – English Teacher
• “Incomprehensible” – Big Thief
• “Fractals” – Beth Orton
• “Once In A Lifetime” – WITCH
• “Hit My Head All Day” – Dry Cleaning
• “(Nothing But) Flowers” – Talking Heads
• “This Is a Photograph (The Salvation Choir Version)” – The Salvation Choir
• “Solace” – Antibalas
• “Black Iris” – Sven Wunder
• “Harlem River After Hours Dub (Peaking Lights Remix)” – Kevin Morby
• “The Quarterdrawing of the Dog” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Every Little Counts” – New Order
• “Psycho Killer” – Astrønne
• “Under a Rainbow (feat. Elle Músa)” – SFJ
• “Survivor” – Chronixx
• “Tear It Down” – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
• “Try A Little Tenderness” – Otis Redding
• “As” – Stevie Wonder
• “Solid Air” – John Martyn
• “All Seeds” – Don Glori
• “Caravan” – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
• “Spanning (Live)” – Charles Tolliver & Music Inc.
• “Circles (feat. Val Jeanty)” – Milena Casado
• “Fallen (feat. Momoko Gill)” – Matthew Herbert

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An artist spotlight on Julia Holter and J Dilla. New music from Stereolab, KeiyaA, Big Thief and Geese (who are in town next Monday at the Majestic Theatre). Fantasizing about being a Kingston, Jamaica concert featuring both Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder. Plus, we’re back to playing bizarro Detroit Tigers theme songs from friend of the show Sebastian.

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In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for October 6, 2025

• “Takahashi Timing” – Yin Yin
• “Guess I’m Fallin In Love” – Spoon
• “Heartbeat” – Wire
• “That’s Entertainment” – The Jam
• “Fed Up With Your Job” – Stereolab
• “Sea Calls Me Home” – Julia Holter
• “Spinning” – Julia Holter
• “Don’t You Know” – Jan Hammer Group
• “Stupid Prizes” – KeiyaA
• “Fire” – Waxahatchee
• “Words” – Big Thief
• “Rice” – Young Fathers
• “100 Horses” – Geese
• “Got ‘Til It’s Gone (feat. Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell) [Ummah Jay Dee’s Revenge Mix]” – Janet Jackson
• “Find A Way” – A Tribe Called Quest
• “Sometimes (feat. Q-Tip) [Ummah Remix]” – Brand New Heavies
• “Love” – Erykah Badu
• “Tell Me Why” – Gotts Street Park & Olive Jones
• “Walk On By” – Isaac Hayes
• “O Telefone Tocou Novamente” – Jorge Ben Jor
• “All Of Your Life” – Shirley Nanette
• “Your Time” – Chiminyo
• “Detroit City Cats” – Costa & Chyps
• “Sáré Kon Kon” – Antibalas
• “Ice Breaker” – Bubaza
• “I Shot The Sheriff” – Bob Marley & the Wailers
• “Superstition” – Stevie Wonder
• “Soul Bright (Kon Rework)” – Saucy Lady
• “Mágica” – El Michels Affair & Rogê
• “Uno Punto Uno” – Women In Jazz & Rosa Brunello
• “Belong To You” – Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger
• “Tiger Thriller” – Family Portrait

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.

Cracking open a couple of musical time capsules by throwing it back to the releases of Stevie Wonder’s magnum opus “Songs in the Key of Life” as well as a groundbreaking Temptations single.

We also go back 27 years ago to 1998 when A Tribe Called Quest and OutKast both dropped landmark albums on the same day.

Of course, there’s new stuff, too, from Nightbus, Jeff Tweedy, Big Thief, Tortoise and more.

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

• “Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Single Version)” – Temptations
• “Psychedelic Reggae (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics) [with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics]” – Winston Wright
• “Let It Be (with The Dixie Flyers)” – Aretha Franklin
• “Happy With You” – Big Thief
• “KC Rain (No Wonder)” – Jeff Tweedy
• “Banc de poissons” – Vulfmon & Jacob Jeffries
• “Animaru” – Mei Semones
• “Gimme Some More” – Labi Siffre
• “SHELL ( OF A MAN )” – Saya Gray
• “Love Takes Miles” – Cameron Winter
• “Layered Presence” – Tortoise
• “The Field (feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar)” – Blood Orange
• “Will Anybody Ever Love Me?” – Sufjan Stevens
• “A Deeper Life” – Chaos In The CBD & Isaac Aesili
• “Love’s In Need of Love Today” – Stevie Wonder
• “Village Ghetto Land” – Stevie Wonder
• “Silver” – Say She She
• “Riverside” – Oracle Sisters
• “African Skies” – Lars Bartkuhn
• “I Did It For You” – Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
• “Chasing The Drum” – Yussef Dayes
• “Rust (feat. Tom Misch)” – Yussef Dayes
• “Ámame” – Bardo
• “Save Me” – Emma-Jean Thackray
• “See-Line Woman” – Danielle Ponder & Bryce Dessner
• “My Moon My Man” – Feist
• “Africa” – Bill Laurance & Michael League
• “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” – Andrew Bird, Alan Hampton & Ted Poor
• “Garden” – Maria Somerville
• “To Be A Rose” – Jenny Hval
• “Angles Mortz” – Nightbus
• “The Middle (Outro)” – Girls of the Internet & Allysha Joy
• “Back 2 Me (feat. Sadie Walker)” – Girls of the Internet
• “Find A Way” – A Tribe Called Quest
• “Rosa Parks” – OutKast

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This week on In The Groove, some fresh selects and first spins from Wet Leg, Stereolab, The Circling Sun, Patchwork Inc., Rita Moran, Big Thief, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and more.

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

• “Canopy” – Resavoir & Matt Gold
• “Cannock Chase” – Labi Siffre
• “Seu João” – Gabriel da Rosa
• “Me Gustas Tú” – Manu Chao
• “Primos” – Adrian Quesada & Hermanos Gutiérrez
• “Don’t Call It Love (12″ Version)” – Zero 7
• “Green Garden (1/f Version)” – Laura Mvula
• “Disparate Youth” – Santigold
• “Y Control” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• “Wolf Like Me” – TV on the Radio
• “Pokemon” – Wet Leg
• “Summer Girl (Amber Mark Remix)” – HAIM
• “Give It To Me Baby” – Jarina De Marco
• “Melodie Is a Wound” – Stereolab
• “Moon Dance” – Bitchin Bajas
• “Constellation” – The Circling Sun
• “African Skies” – Lars Bartkuhn
• “Brother Where Are You (Matthew Herbert Remix)” – Oscar Brown, Jr. & Matthew Herbert
• “Babystar” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
• “Last Forever” – Patchwork Inc. & Wyatt Waddell
• “Temporary” – Ria Moran
• “Don’t Start Now (Kaytranada Remix)” – Dua Lipa
• “Highway” – Lewis OfMan & Empress Of
• “Tokyo Midnight” – Sababa 5 & Yurika Hanashima
• “Siesta Freestyle (Frisco version)” – Lewis OfMan & Alicia te quiero
• “Incomprehensible” – Big Thief
• “DEATH COMES FROM THE SKY” – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• “Lush” – Four Tet
• “Latitude” – Coral Grief
• “Life Signs” – Water From Your Eyes
• “Kneel” – Nilufer Yanya
• “Virginia Tech” – Panda Bear
• “Cherry Sunshine” – Somesurprises

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.