To match the rainy weather in Detroit on Sunday, we fittingly played new music from the Pacific Northwest band Helen, with some 80s/Post-Punk/Shoegaze vibes. We also featured the grungy pop of Nashville’s The Sewing Club and a brand-new single from The Secret French Postcards. 

Plus, we celebrated the anniversaries of This Mortal Coil’s album, “It’ll End in Tears,” The Cure’s “Charlotte Sometimes,” The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey,” and Lush’s “Black Spring” EP. 

We also talked about our upcoming spooky Halloween episode on Oct. 25!

Email me any Halloween song ideas at darrenrevell@wdet.org. They don’t have to be obvious Halloween songs. We’re going for mysterious, creepy, cool song ideas, Big Sonic Heaven style. Can’t wait to hear your ideas! Thanks for listening!

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Oct. 11, 2026

• “Texture” – Catherine Wheel
• “Only So Much Light” – Air Formation
• “Ice Pick (Walk Away)” – Boy Harsher
• “Nothing Natural” – Lush
• “Complicated” – The Sewing Club
• “I’ll Fall With Your Knife” – Peter Murphy
• “In Real Life” – ACTORS
• “Softy” – Lowly
• “Lilies (Flood Mix)” – Cranes
• “Shame” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Typical” – Frazier Chorus
• “The Body, It Bends” – A Sunny Day In Glasgow
• “Starline” – Helen
• “Not Me” – This Mortal Coil
• “The Presence” – Emma Anderson
• “Got You” – Aerial Love Feed
• “Charlotte Sometimes” – The Cure
• “No More Kissing In The Rain” – Trentemøller
• “Morning, June and Yesterday” – The Veldt
• “The Ghost In You” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “All in a Life” – Johnny Marr
• “Half A Person” – The Smiths
• “Bind Us” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Summertime” – The Sundays
• “Goodbye Vista” – Deserta
• “Welcome Break” – Mary in the Junkyard
• “Just Like Honey” – The Jesus & Mary Chain
• “Fossilized” – Postcards
• “Into The Light (with Diamanda Galás)” – Delerium
• “All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun” – Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser
• “We Prayed In the Dark” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “When The Sun Hits” – Slowdive
• “Until The Dawn” – The Awakening
• “Let it Burn” – Le Blonde
• “Life That Can’t Be Shared” – &Tilly
• “Tower of Strength” – The Mission
• “Awake” – Tycho

Today’s show is your submissions for your fall weather soundtrack into one amazing playlist full of new (like unreleased music from the band Morphine) and old, heard and unheard by many, and we’re thrilled that you guys are continuing to send in! If you want to add your own, call our hotline: (313) 577-3134.

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 September 24, 2026

• “Change” – Alex G (fall song picked by you!)
• “The Shining” – Badly Drawn Boy 
• “Harvest Moon” – Neil Young 
• “Sound & Color” – Alabama Shakes (fall song picked by you!)
• “Move with the Season” – Temples (fall song picked by you!)
• “Another Country” – Shadowfax (fall song picked by you!)
• “Lydia Wears a Cross” -Julia Jacklin (fall song picked by you!)
• “Oscillate Wildly” – The Smiths (fall song picked by you!)
• “Comment te dire adieu (It Hurts to Say Goodbye)” – Françoise Hardy (fall song picked by you!) 
• “Never Known” – The Durutti Column (fall song picked by you!)
• “One Good Spliff” – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers (fall song picked by you!)
• “Watching The Wheels” – John Lennon (fall song picked by you!)
• “Fall in a River” – Badly Drawn Boy 
• “Camping Next to Water” – Badly Drawn Boy 
• “September Gurls” -Big Star (fall song picked by you!)
• “Northern Sky” -Nick Drake (fall song picked by you!)
• “Some Birds” Jeff Tweedy (fall song picked by you!)
• “Seasons” -Chris Cornell (fall song picked by you!) 
• “Ramble On” -Led Zeppelin (fall song picked by you!)
• “The Rat” – The Walkmen 
• “Walking With Thee” – Clinic 
• “Season of the Witch (Secrets Edit)” – Donovan 
• “Breathe” – Romare 
• “I’m Straight” – The Modern Lovers 
• “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” -The Magnetic Fields 
• “In Spite of Me” – Morphine 
• “Cocoon” – Morphine 
• “Buena” – Morphine 
• “Everything and Nothing” – SOFT PLAY 
• “Words” – Big Thief 
• “Heart Is a Drum” – Beck 
• “Sleeping Lessons” – The Shins 
• “Nu Tones” – NOMO 
• “Water No Get Enemy” – Fela Kuti  

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.