Huge thank you to listener Dean for reminding me that today is Neil Young’s 80th birthday! Would’ve slipped right through my fingers otherwise, so a few Neil Young songs of course plus an excellent Pixies cover of “Winterlong” (a big time favorite around here). Plus new music from Joshua Idehen, Detroit’s own MRKT, Smerz 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 November 12, 2025

• “It Always Was” – Joshua Idehen
• “Goatnoggin” – Goat & human language
• “Monotropa” – MRKT
• “Easy (Astrid Sonne EDIT)” – Smerz
• “Tie You Down” – HAIM & Bon Iver
• “Elderberry Wine” – Wednesday
• “Take It All” – Say She She
• “Love Hangover (12”)” – Diana Ross
• “Baby I’m Scared Of You” – Womack & Womack
• “Maureen” – Sade
• “Place in My Heart (feat. RYAT)” – Taylor McFerrin
• “Ibiza” – Butcher Brown
• “Wreck” – Neko Case
• “I Wish I Was The Moon” – Neko Case
• “Train Song” – Vashti Bunyan
• “My Love Mine All Mine” – Mitski
• “All Mirrors” – Angel Olsen
• “Transmission” – Joy Division
• “The Chills” – Peter Bjorn & John
• “Just Like Honey” – The Jesus and Mary Chain
• “All I Wanna Do” – Beach Boys
• “Play The Game” – Beach House
• “It Might Have To Be You” – Vulfmon & Evangeline
• “Hurts To Be Alone” – Norah Jones
• “Harvest Moon” – Neil Young
• “Winterlong” – Pixies
• “The Fool” – Steven Bamidele & Sly5thAve
• “Different Places” – Amber Mark & John The Blind
• “Nervous System” – Candi Carpenter
• “Good Ol’ Days” – Hayley Williams
• “Nice To Each Other” – Olivia Dean
• “The Ones We Loved” – Georgie Sweet
• “Constellation” – The Circling Sun
• “Sympathy Magic” – Florence + the Machine
• “Down By The River” – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
• “Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)” – Neil Young

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, some songs from, and covers of Neil Young as he approaches his 80th birthday next week!

Also, the great Mavis Staples with a new single, nighttime music from Cautious Clay, The Accidentals kick off the holiday season and 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 November 8, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Love Is A Rose” – Neil Young
• “Old Man” – N’dea Davenport (Acoustic Cafe recording, 1998)
• “Human Mind” – Mavis Staples
• “You Are Not Alone” – Mavis Staples
  
• “A Hazy Shade Of Winter” – The Accidentals
  
• “Dry The Rain” – The Beta Band
  
• “Stone Rollin’” – Raphael Saadiq
  
• “Lady” – D’Angelo
  
• “No Kings” – Jesse Welles
• “The World’s Gone Wrong” – Lucinda Williams ft. Brittney Spencer
• “shut up” – Royel Otis
• “Half Asleep” – Twin Shadow
• “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” – Maia Sharp
  

• “Broken Arrow” – Neil Young, live at Canterbury House, Ann Arbor, 1968
• “Harvest Moon” – Cassandra Wilson
• “Runnin'” – GoldFord
• “Fade To Blue (11 PM)” – Cautious Clay
• “Lover Killer” – My Brightest Diamond
• “Southern California Brings Me Down” – National Lampoon
  
• “Open Your Umbrellas” – Sloan
• “Tanana” – Portugal. The Man
  
• “Party Pack” – Trombone Shorty
  
• “Another Life” – Alabama Shakes
  
• “Pajarito” – Jose Gonzalez
• “Old Man” – Lizz Wright (Acoustic Cafe recording, 2005)
• “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World” – Neil Young

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