This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, Detroit’s Kathy Kosins and Nick Piunti, new music from Thundercat, Trixie Whitley, David Byrne and many more.

Also, cool 70s re-issues from Funkadelic and Elton John!

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 October 24, 2026

HOUR ONE:

• “OH GOOD!” – Michigander
• “Laurel Canyon” – Danielle Ponder
• “Hit It And Quit It” – Funkadelic
• “Let Me Sell You A Dream” – David Byrne & Daniel Pemberton
• “Slow Learning” – Nick Piunti
• “Autosmile” – @
• “Stone” – Prince
• “Easy Company” – Joy Oldadokun
• “Street Kids” – Elton John
• “Passing Faces” – Brooke Combe
• “Black Stars” – Smashing Pumpkins
• “Disarm” – Smashing Pumpkins

HOUR TWO:

• “Flying Underground” – Rodrigo y Gabriela
• “Moving At Light Speed” – Thundercat x Button Masher
• “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” – Richard Thompson
• “The Kid With The Crown” – This Is Lorelei
• “If Love Could Talk” – Kathy Kosins
• “Jester In A Bowl” – Mon Rovia
• “Strange Memory” – Rainbow Body
• “Church And State” – Brandi Carlile
• “Make America Great Again ” – Frank Turner
• “Say Yes” – Apropos
• “Stone Over Water” – Death Cab For Cutie
• “Weather Girl” – Trixie Whitley
• “Sympathy For The Devil” – The Rolling Stones (Bill Wyman is 90 today!)

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

Gliding back into the week with everything from the Cramps, Pops Staples, Romare, a listener request for French icon Alain Bashung 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 October 19, 2026

• “Baby I Got News For You” – Kelly Stoltz 
• “Baby Drugs” – Tristen 
• “Nothing To Me” – Minna 
• “Skin Is, My” – Andrew Bird 
• “Pride May Put Me To Rest” – Louise Walker 
• “Speak To Me” – Julian Lage 
• “Fall Again” – Duval Timothy, Lil Silva & Melanie Faye 
• “Madam Reve” – Alain Bashung 
• “Bonnie & Clyde” – Brigette Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg 
• “Hey Now (When I Give You All My Lovin’)” – Romare 
• “I Can’t Hardly Stand It” – The Cramps 
• “No News Is Good News” – Pops Staples 
• “Fire and Brimstone” – Link Wray 
• “grand cru (jazz version)” – aupinard 
• “Little Sunflower” – Dorothy Ashby 
• “Rio e Siempre Rio” – Salvador Trio 
• “Another Country” – Demon Fuzz 
• “Africa” – D’Angelo 
• “I’ll Stay” – Funkadelic 
• “Hand of Doom” – Black Sabbath 
• “Planet Caravan (feat. David Jimenez)” – Brown Sabbath & Brownout 
• “Hotel California (Spanish Mix)” – Gypsy Kings 
• “I Say a Little Prayer” – Aretha Franklin 
• “Heavy”- Momoko Gill 
• “100 Years of Bill and Lil” – Joe Webb 
• “Like Swimwear (part two) [feat. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson]” – Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet 
• “Somewhere Good” – Tara Clerkin Trio 
• “I Believe To My Soul” – Farhad Mehrad 
• “Burnin’ Coal” – Les McCann 
• “Call Me Your Lover” – Mary Afi Usuah 
• “Astral Traveling” – Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes 
• “Not Around Anymore” – Broken Social Scene 

Listen to In the Groove with host Ryan Patrick Hooper weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. ET on 101.9 WDET or stream on-demand at wdet.org.