New music from Lola Young, Kurt Vile, she’s green, Westside Cowboy, Lovespells, and Courtney Barnett. Plus, selections from The Avalanches, Romare, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, Molly Burch, and Tara Clerkin Trio. 

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 July 28, 2026 

• “Shadows From Nowhere” – Blue Gas 

• “Blue Shadows (feat. Karen O)” – The Avalanches 

• “Keep It To Yourself” – Love Spells 

• “Star Blanket River Child” – Brightblack Morning Light  

• “Computer Love” – Romare 

• “In Loving Memory” – Gabriels 

• “Carry Me Higher (Demo)” – The Blessed Madonna, Joy Anonymous & Danielle Ponder 

• “That’s All I Ask (HAAi Remix / Edit)” – Nina Simone & HAAi 

• “Silently” – Tara Clerkin Trio 

• “Save It for Later (Live)” – Pete Townshend 

• “Summer Girl (Bonus Track)” – HAIM 

• “Please Be Mine” – Molly Burch 

• “I’LL BE YOUR FRIEND” – Ruti 

• “22° Halo” – pôt-pot 

• “mettle” – she’s green 

• “SPIDERS” – Lola Young 

• “Heaven’s on Fire” – The Radio Dept. 

• “Quick Canal (with Laetitia Sadier) [feat. Laetitia Sadier]” – Atlas Sound 

• “7/4 (Shoreline)” – Broken Social Scene 

• “Just A Western” – Nilüfer Yanya 

• “Need to Run” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill  

• “Eco do Futuro (feat. Céline Dessberg)” – Tiago Caetano 

• “Just Wrong” – Pino Palladino & Blake Mills 

• “Come Again” – Jim James 

• “Chance to Bleed” – Kurt Vile 

• “Fall On Me” – R.E.M. 

• “Train on the Island” – Aldous Harding 

• “Kick Stones (The Boys)” – Westside Cowboy 

• “One Thing At A Time” – Courtney Barnett 

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. 

Tonight was a compilation kind of night. I featured tracks from the upcoming “We Are The Beautiful” 4-CD box set that tracks the development of the shoegaze genre over the past 20 years. I also spun a track from L.A. based Tombstones In Their Eyes, which is from the recently released shoegaze/dreampop box set called “Mind Your Mind,” and honored Sinéad O’Connor, with her passing being 3 years ago today.

Plus, we heard brand new music from Johnny Marr, Night Tapes, She’s Green, and much, much more along with your fave shoegaze, dreampop and post-punk classics.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for July 26, 2026

• “Souvlaki Space Station” – Slowdive
• “Convertible” – Prepare My Glider
• “Speakers Don’t Speak” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Be Still (Robin Guthrie remix featuring Elizabeth Frazer)” – Peace Together
• “The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Ophelia” – Johnny Marr
• “Nothing Natural” – Lush
• “locket” – She’s Green
• “War in Heaven” – The Raveonettes
• “I’ll Fall With Your Knife” – Peter Murphy
• “Fall” – Tombstones In Their Eyes
• “Lazy Day” – The Boo Radleys
• “On Your Side” – The Innocence Mission
• “Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Pagan Poetry” – Björk
• “Crash Landing” – Mary in the junkyard
• “Waiting For The Night” – Depeche Mode
• “Double Sky” – Autoregulate
• “Blissfield” – Au Revoir Borealis
• “Juniper” – Forest Circles
• “Closedown” – The Cure
• “The Worst Taste In Music” – The Radio Dept.
• “The Cicadas” – Dead Can Dance
• “Horror Head” – Curve
• “God’s Dream” – Ringo Deathstarr
• “Coastal” – Attic Ocean
• “Lovesleep” – Swallow
• “to be free (remastered)” – Night Tapes
• “Aikea-Guinea” – Cocteau Twins
• “wake up” – The Haunted Youth
• “Memories Fade” – Tears For Fears
• “Clusters” – Emma Anderson
• “A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours” – The Smiths
• “It’s Enough” – Atmos Bloom

In this week’s show on WDET, we featured the first new music from Echo & The Bunnymen in 12 years, and it’s catchy! We also played a new single from the Australian shoegaze/dreampop duo Grazer, music from She’s Green’s newly released album, “swallowtail,” and the London-based dreampop duo Atmos Bloom.

We also took that Stefano Guzzetti song, Northern Sky, for another spin. I love the This Mortal Coil inspiration behind it and can’t wait to hear the whole album. We heard all of this and much, much more, along with your shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk faves!

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for July 19, 2026

• “Twenty Four Hours” – Joy Division
• “little galaxy” – Silk Daisys
• “Aurora” – Attic Ocean
• “Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Burrow” – AtticOmatic
• “Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Blood Money” – The Sisters Of Mercy
• “Silhouette” – Nation of Language
• “The Cicadas” – Dead Can Dance
• “Marinade (feat. Mitch Sanders)” – Tricky
• “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” – Julee Cruise
• “Hide” – Deserta
• “dear ivy” – she’s green
• “Renaissance Affair” – Hooverphonic
• “Casi Famosas” – UNIFORMS
• “Everything” – Atmos bloom
• “Northern Sky (w/ Anne Garner)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “andalucia plays” – Slowdive
• “All Flowers In Time Bend Toward the Sun” – Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser
• “Last Day on Earth” – Swervedriver
• “Juniper” – Forest Circles
• “Sweetest Perfection” – Depeche Mode
• “Paradise” – GRAZER
• “Here’s To All the Ones” – Hunter As a Horse
• “To Be Free” – Emiliana Torrini
• “Seabird” – deary
• “Death Opened A Boutique” – Future Bible Heroes
• “Anotherwave” – Tycho & Sea Lemon
• “Holding” – Kalia Vandever
• “Song To The Siren” – This Mortal Coil
• “Pink Orange Red” – Cocteau Twins
• “Hide & Seek” – Airiel
• “Speakers Don’t Speak” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Ornaments of Gold” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “The Robot Girl Psychiatrist” – The False Dawns
• “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep” – The Cure

Excited about some new music in Big Sonic Heaven this week. We played two tracks from the much-anticipated album “Birding” from dreampop three-piece Deary, which was released this week. We also heard the new single from She’s Green, “Paper Thin,” from their upcoming EP, “Swallowtail,” which is due in July.

Plus, the latest from The Julies, Dead Can Dance, Searows, and Miki Berenyi Trio, along with your favorite shoegaze, dream pop, and post-punk.

• “Elysium, Honor Him, Now We Are Free” – Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
• “Doot Doot” – The Fauns
• “In Violet” – Searows
• “Baby’s Breath” – deary
• “Love’s Easy Tears” – Cocteau Twins
• “I Think I Knew” – The Church
• “A Night Like This” – The Cure
• “Low December Sun” – Air Formation
• “Paper Thin” – She’s Green
• “Sweetness And Light” – Lush
• “I’m So Tired” – Deserta
• “Out Of Sight” – Hooverphonic
• “Nobody Loves You More” – Kim Deal
• “Neon Afterlife” – The Julies
• “All Mine” – Portishead
• “Island Of One” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Run” – New Order
• “Orange of the Westering Sun” – The Innocence Mission
• “Primal” – Slowdive
• “Smile” – deary
• “Everywhere” – Cranes
• “New You” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Fine Friend” – Pale Saints
• “Stranglehold” – The Churchhill Garden
• “Hazlewood” – Toothpaste
• “Halo” – Depeche Mode
• “Thin Circle” – Bug Teeth
• “Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Vanity (feat. Rachel Goswell)” – Drab Majesty
• “Coldsweat” – Sugarcubes
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “The Worst Taste In Music” – The Radio Dept.