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.

There’s no April Fools here! Just a serious love of music — all music, from all genres, brought together through common vibe and feel. New music from High Vis, Bab L’ Bluz, Beth Gibbons (in town on April 7 at Masonic Cathedral Theatre), Lizzo, Orions Belte, Sparklmami and more.

The big thing on the musical menu is revisiting the Garden State soundtrack 20 years later, including selections from The Shins, Nick Drake, Thievery Corporation and Frou Frou.

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 1, 2025

• “Sexy To Someone” – Clairo
• “All I Want” – Broken Social Scene
• “Image” – Magdalena Bay
• “Mind’s A Lie” – High Vis
• “Wave To Anchor” – Hundred Waters
• “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” – Paul McCartney & Wings
• “Elevate” – St. Lucia
• “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” – Michael Jackson
• “Mahlalela” – Hugh Masekela & Letta Mbulu
• “Only Good for Conversation” – Rodriguez
• “Bangoro (Gitkin Remix)” – Bab L’ Bluz
• “On The Road” – Rattlesnake Milk
• “New Slang” – The Shins
• “One of These Things First” – Nick Drake
• “Drinkin’ on a Tuesday” – Sarah Mary Chadwick
• “Let Go” – Frou Frou
• “Lebanese Blonde” – Thievery Corporation
• “Reaching Out” – Beth Gibbons
• “Glory Box (Live / Remastered 2023)” – Portishead
• “All Mine” – Portishead
• “Black Coffee” – Sarah Vaughn
• “20 Feet Tall” – Erykah Badu
• “Run Outs” – Alfa Mist
• “Nite” – Gossip
• “South (feat. Lex Amor)” – Wu-Lu
• “TOUCH” – Sparklmami & Les Sons Du Cosmos
• “The Carneddau” – Orions Belte
• “Still Bad” – Lizzo
• “Begin Again (Joe Goddard Remix)” – Jessie Ware
• “Gentle Thoughts” – Herbie Hancock
• “Dangerous” – Surprise Chef
• “Hangin’ on Your Lips” – Cousin Kula
• “Red Room” – Hiatus Kaiyote
• “Mammone (feat. SHOLTO & David Bardon)” – Rachel Kitchlew & SFJ
• “Loso Na Madesu (feat. Natanya) [Lewis OfMan Remix]” – Brian Nasty

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.

This week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music covers another busy week of newly released music from Lizzo, Lucy Dacus and Detroit’s Jack Spivey — plus a couple of weird moments from 50 and 40 years ago. We also open and close the show with a couple soon-to-be octogenarians!

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 Mar. 29, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Down To Joy” – Van Morrison
• “Forever Is A Feeling” – Lucy Dacus
  
• “Superlover” – Allison Russelll & Annie Lennox
• “I Put A Spell On You” – Annie Lennox
• “Can I Get An Amen” – The War & Treaty
  
• “Lonesome Loser” – Little River Band
  
• “Still Bad” – Lizzo
• “Lazarus” – David Bowie
• “Sleeves Up” – Crys Matthews
• “Where Do We Go From Here” – Wilder Wods
• “Show You Love” – The Altons (Acoustic Cafe in-studio performance)
  
• “Imma Be” – Black Eyed Peas (Fergie turns 50!)
  

• “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” – Wang Chung
• “Cruel Cruel World” – Felix Ames
• “Feel Like Makin’ Love” – Roberta Flack (released 50 years ago this month)
• “Feel Like Makin’ Love” – Bad Company (also released 50 years ago this month)
• “Cold Honey” – Jack Spivey
• “Love Is Like A Rock” – Donnie Iris (82 and still rockin’… sorta)
• “Knock On Wood” – Buddy Guy
• “Moving On And On” – Q
• “Never Felt Better” – Everything Is Recorded
• “Look At The State Of Me Now”– Maya Delilah
• “Gone Again” – Sunny War w/John Doe
• “The Core” – Eric Clapton w/Marcella Detroit (Clapton turns 80 this weekend)

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.