In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, a few songs from “Get Behind Me Satan,” The White Stripes album released in June 2005. A new vinyl re-issue is coming on June 27, 2025.

Also, some other notable June album releases from 1975, ’85, 2020, 2000 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 June 7, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Move On Up” – Curtis Mayfield
• “The Makings Of You” – Curtis Mayfield
  
• “Mahal” – Glass Beams
• “N’dini” – Nickodermus
• “Wax & Strings” – Shannon & The Clams
• “Cold Heart” – Nilufer Yanya
• “The Denial Twist” – The White Stripes (released 20 years ago today!)
• “School Boy Crush” – AWB (released 50 years ago this month)
• “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Diana Ross (released 55 years ago this month)
• “Round Here” – Counting Crows
• “Sally When The Wine Runs Out” – Role Model
• “Save Your Soul” – Kathleen Edwards (at The Ark next Friday 6/13)
  
• “D.M.S.R.” – Prince (born today, 1958)

• “My Doorbell” – The White Stripes (released 20 years ago today!)
• “Attack Me With Your Love” – Cameo (released 40 years ago this month)
• “Queen Of The Underground” – Jack Spivey
• “How Long Will It Take” – Tanika Charles
• “Kyoto” – Phoebe Bridgers (released 5 years ago this month)
• “I’m Alive” – Norah Jones (released 5 years ago this month)
• “Nights On Broadway” – Bee Gees (released 50 years ago this month)
• “Little Ghost” – The White Stripes (released 20 years ago today!)
• “Anxious All The Time” – Ryan Allen
• “That’s Gonna Leave A Mark” – Molly Tuttle
• “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number” – Aaliyah
• “When I’m Sixty-Four” – The Beatles

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.

Singer-songwriter Ryan Allen has never stopped, literally. The metro Detroit-based multi-instrumentalist has never stopped writing, recording and performing.

Even when his primary band, Extra Arms, is on hiatus, he’s at it again with a new solo album that drops this weekend, capped off by a show at Bowlero Lanes Lounge on Friday. Allen and I go way back; we were both scrappy music journalists in our early 20’s when we first met — albeit even back then it was something more of a side-hustle, but I digress…

You can hear Allen and I not only talk about the broad subject of nostalgia, but also hear us drill down on how it informs and inspires the music we love and the music we write! Allen’s new album, “Livin’ On a Prayer on the Edge,” taps into that singular exhilaration we all felt as teenagers when we were discovering the music that would come to define us, while also ruminating on the way music can sweetly sculpt our memories of those formative days.

I am a nostalgic person,” Allen said, “as much as I wish sometimes that i wasn’t. But I’m not someone who wishes it was like the old days…”

As mentioned during the interview, there’s an underlying theme of enduring, that prevails throughout the album, and what better to endure than timeless music?

“Like Teenage Fanclub and those other ’90s bands like Matthew Sweet records, which all had that kinda jangly, open chord, big sounding poppy rock sound, that was what I really was drawn to as a teenager,” he said. “Just something about that warm blanket of distortion and melody — that is that sweet spot for me musically. And [“Livin’ On a Prayer on the Edge“] definitely is an homage to all of that stuff!”

While Allen was hanging out with me in-studio, he also performed an acoustic version of “When I’m Gone,” off his new album!

Along with Allen’s interview, I also premiered lots of new local music — particularly leaning in to indie-rock vibes with Zastava‘s “Truth,” a lead single from their forthcoming album; and Gloomco, with ‘Wake Up,’ the second single from their forthcoming release, “Nothing Left to Say.”

Another local group with an album out this weekend is the dream-pop/shoegaze ensemble Origami Phase. I premiered a new song from their EP “Ostara,” which has its release party this Friday at Small’s in Hamtramck.

But wait, there’s more! We also heard from Ann Arbor folk/Americana/jazz singer-songwriter Jess Merritt, who has an album release show this Sunday at The Ark.

Another reliable facet of MI Local is that you’ll hear from artists based all around the state of Michigan, including The Charlie Millard Band, who came out of the “northern” part of the “lower” peninsula — they have a new album out soon titled Pilot Boy, and we heard their new single, “Wedding Bells.”

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

MI Local Playlist for May 13, 2025

• “Wake Up” – Gloomco
• “Fake Lives” – The Messenger Birds
• “Wedding Bells” – Charlie Millard Band
• “Lakeside” – Jess Merritt
• “Complicate Me” – Outrageous Cherry
• “Truth” – Zastava
• “I’m Team Edward” – drive safe!
• “Lilith” – Origami Phase
• “Sober” – sock jock
• “I Should (But I Don’t Really Wanna)” – Ryan Allen
• “When I’m Gone” – Ryan Allen (live in WDET Studios)
• “So What Who Cares” – Ryan Allen

In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, I revisit a 2015 interview with Bob Seger, celebrating the man’s 80th birthday this past week. Also cool new stuff from Ledisi w/Trombone Shorty, some songs for a beautiful day 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 May 10, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Soak Up The Sun” – Sheryl Crow (Surf Mesa remix, 2025)
  
• “Beautiful Day” – Black Violin w/Lalah Hathaway
• “Beautiful Day” – Keyon Harrold (Acoustic Cafe in-studio performance)
• “Beautiful Day” – U2
• “It’s A Shame” – The Detroit Spinners
• “interview 1” – Bob Seger, 2015 (for Bob’s 80th!)
  
• “interview 2” – Bob Seger, 2015 (for Bob’s 80th!)
• “interview 3” – Bob Seger, 2015 (for Bob’s 80th!)
• “Love The One You’re With” – Bob Seger
• “The Crown” – Ledisi w/Trombone Shorty
  
• “What It Takes” – Trombone Shorty w/Lauren Daigle
  
• “Cake” – Laura Rain & The Caesars
  
• “Love You Madly” – Cake
• “Bluffing In The Snow” – Andre 3000
• “Sea Changes” – Marinero
  

• “Get Out Of Denver” – Dave Edmunds
  
• “Lucifer” – Deep Purple
  
• “Clearer Through You” – Uwade
• “Reborn” – Lady Blackbird
• “In The Next Life” – Ryan Allen
• “interview 4” – Bob Seger, 2015 (for Bob’s 80th!)
• “interview 5” – Bob Seger, 2015 (for Bob’s 80th!)
• “Looking Back” – Bob Seger
• “interview 6” – Bob Seger, 2015 (for Bob’s 80th!)
• “Turn The Page” – Bob Seger
• “A Good Life” – Jill Sobule
• “Praying For Your Downfall” – Jensen McRae
  
• “Time Will Tell” – Aaron Frazer
  
• “Hey Girls” – Moses Sumney
• “Rock And Roll Never Forgets” – Bob Seger

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, Rock & Roll Hall Of Famers — including The White Stripes, Outkast and Joe Cocker — album releases from the month of May in the past, new Detroit rock from Nick Behnan and Ryan Allen, in-studio songs from Mike Peters (The Alarm) and Jill Sobule, both of whom left us this week at age 66; 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 May 3, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Icky Thump” – The White Stripes (R&R HOF inductee 2025)
  
• “Oh, Atlanta” – Bad Company (R&R HOF inductee 2025)
• “Stream Of Consciousness” – Yukimi w/Lianne La Havas
• “Mr. Nelson” – Prince w/Lianne La Havas
• “Brain Lift” – Nick Behnan
• “It’s Not Unusual” – Tom Jones (released May 1965)
  
• “Busting Up A Starbucks” – Mike Doughty (released May 2005)
• “All I Do Is Think Of You” – The Jackson 5 (released May 1975)
• “The Day The Politicians Died” – Magnetic Fields
• “My Stupid Boyfriend” – Magnetic Fields
• “Chain Of Fools” – Joe Cocker (R&R HOF inductee 2025)
• “Ms Jackson” – Outkast (R&R HOF inductee 2025)
• “Heroes” – Jill Sobule (1/16/59 – 5/1/25)
• “I Kissed A Girl” – Jill Sobule (1/16/59 – 5/1/25)

• “Texas Hold ‘Em” – Beyonce (Cowboy Carter Tour started this week)
• “High Note” – Mavis Staples (coming to Concert Of Colors in July)
• “Wait” – Paul Thorn
• “Ain’t No rest For The Wicked” – Cage the Elephant
• “After I’m Dead” – Ryan Allen
• “The Man’s Too Strong” – Dire Straits (released May 1985)
• “Light Years” – Jamiraquia (released May 1995)
• “Catch the Wind” – Donovan (released May 1965)
• “Rusty Cage” – Soundgarden (R&R HOF inductee 2025)
• “Time After Time” – Cyndi Lauper (R&R HOF inductee 2025)
• “Strength” – Mike Peters (2/25/59 – 4/28/25)
• “Sold Me Down The River” – The Alarm, Mike Peters (2/25/59 – 4/28/25)

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.