Today’s playlist features new music from Sparklmami, Dana and Alden, Mitski, she’s green, Pearl & The Oysters, and mary in the junkyard. We also play songs from The Cramps, TV on the Radio, The B-52’s, The Cure, Jeff Tweedy, and Talking Heads.  

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 August 6, 2026 

• “fajas” – Sparklmami 

• “Summer Nights” – Dana and Alden 

• “Mandarin Moon” – Pearl & The Oysters 

• “Tears for Affairs” – Camera Obscura 

• “Spooky (Single Version)” – Dusty Springfield 

• “30 Century Man” – Scott Walker 

• “Low Key” – Tweedy & Jeff Tweedy 

• “Use Me” – Bill Withers 

• “We Do We Go” – NOMO 

• “Bra” – Cymande 

• “Staring at the Wall” – Norah Jones 

• “Somebody Was Watching” – Pops Staples 

• “Everybody Daylight” – Brightblack Morning Light 

• “Earthforms” – Matthew Dear 

• “Wolf Like Me” – TV on the Radio 

• “Stay Away (feat. Menahan Street Band)” – Charles Bradley 

• “Earthquake” – This Is the Kit 

• “Lay Down In The Tall Grass” – Timber Timbre 

• “Hey Now (When I Give You All My Lovin’)” – Romare 

• “TV Set (1977 Version)” – The Cramps 

• “Goo Goo Muck” – The Cramps 

• “Lady Luck” – Richard Swift 

• “Where’s My Phone?” – Mitski 

• “Pretend We’re Dead” – L7 

• “Where to Start” – Bully  

• “Boys Don’t Cry (New Voice Club Mix 1986) [Remastered]” – The Cure 

• “Give Me Back My Man” – The B-52’s 

• “mettle” – she’s green 

• “Boyfriend” – Best Coast 

• “New Muscles” – mary in the junkyard 

• “Venus Hour (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix)” – Automatic & Peanut Butter Wolf 

• “Girlfriend Is Better” – Talking Heads 

• “Cairo FM” – Alewya 

• “Pick Up (12″ Extended Disco Version)” – DJ Koze 

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. 

Today’s playlist moves from soul and funk to indie, electronic, and jazz with music from Roy Ayers, ESG, Childish Gambino, Massive Attack, The Cure, and more. We wrap up the show with a conversation featuring Pakistani Grammy-winning artist Arooj Aftab ahead of her first-ever Detroit performance, along with several songs from her catalog. 

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In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for July 23, 2026 

• “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” – Roy Ayers Ubiquity 

• “Sun for Someone” – Oscar Jerome 

• “Summer Haze” – Yazmin Lacey 

• “Fluye” – Helado Negro, Helado Tropical & Reyna Tropical 

• “Be A Witness” – Lady Wray 

• “Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)” – Daphni 

• “Aye Aye Mi Mi (12″ Mix)” – Mano Le Tough 

• “Nobody Can Live Forever” – Tim Maia 

• “Time (You and I)” – Khruangbin 

• “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing (12″ Version)” – Gloria Ann Taylor 

• “If You Don’t Want My Love” – Jalen Ngonda 

• “Home” – Caribou 

• “U.F.O” – ESG 

• “Alone (Four Tet Remix)” – The Cure 

• “Boys Don’t Cry (New Voice Club Mix 1986) [Remastered]” – The Cure 

• “Out In the Woods” – Leon Russell 

• “I Dig Love (2014 Remaster)” – George Harrison 

• “Our House (Demo)” – Graham Nash & Joni Mitchell 

• “I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)” – Joe Webb 

• “Make Something Up” – James Blake 

• “PRIDE.” – Kendrick Lamar 

• “Whiskey” – Arooj Aftab 

• “Last Night” – Arooj Aftab 

• “Mohabbat” – Arooj Aftab 

• “Aey Nehin” – Arooj Aftab 

• “Fire on the Water” – Bonobo & Arooj Aftab 

• “One Love (feat. Horace Andy) [2012 Mix/Master]” – Massive Attack 

• “Feels Like Summer” – Childish Gambino 

• “Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)” – Mark Ronson 

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. 

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

New music from Mitski, she’s green, mary in the junkyard, Tomoki Sanders, and Ian Fink leads today’s playlist. We also play The Cure, Bully, Best Coast, The B-52’s, alongside selections from Thee Sacred Souls, Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Doves, and The Kinks. 

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 20, 2026 

• “Where’s My Phone?” – Mitski 

• “Pretend We’re Dead” – L7 

• “Trying” – Bully 

• “Boys Don’t Cry (New Voice Club Mix 1986) [Remastered]” – The Cure 

• “Give Me Back My Man” – The B-52’s 

• “mettle” – she’s green 

• “Boyfriend” – Best Coast 

• “New Muscles” – mary in the junkyard 

• “A Fragile Thing (Mark Saunders Heartbroken Remix)” – The Cure 

• “Pick Up (12″ Extended Disco Version)” – DJ Koze 

• “If I Let You” – The Womack Sisters 

• “Waiting on the Right Time” – Thee Sacred Souls 

• “free fall” – berlioz 

• “Love Is Stronger Than Pride” – Ian Fink 

• “The Third Eye” – Tomoki Sanders 

• “Mule” – Kenny Burrell 

• “Crazy He Calls Me” – Aretha Franklin 

• “Like Swimwear (part one) [feat. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson] – Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet 

• “This Is How We Walk on the Moon (feat. Tirzah)” – Speakers Corner Quartet 

• “Shadows From Nowhere” – Blue Gas 

• “In the Middle of the Night” – Ronald Langestraat  

• “On the Level” – Mac DeMarco 

• “Firesuite” – Doves 

• “Here It Comes” – Doves 

• “Can’t Run But” – Paul Simon 

• “Need to Run (K – Lone Remix)” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill 

• “Roscoe (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)” – Midlake  

• “Demon in Profile” – The Afghan Whigs 

• “God Gets You Back” – Mogwai 

• “Fingertips” – The Brian Jonestown Massacre 

• “The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness” – The Feelies 

• “Lola” – The Kinks 

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. 

In this week’s Big Sonic Heaven, we heard new music from Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Hann, a dreamy track from the project Fischersund featuring Jónsi from Sigur Rós, the latest from Edward Ka-Spel, and more. We also featured artists who were a part of the incredible Primavera Sound Festival lineup in Barcelona including The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Einstürzende Neubauten, as well as your favorite shoegaze, dreampop and post-punk classics. 

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for June 7, 2026

• “Golden Hair” – Slowdive
• “Clusters” – Emma Anderson
• “Time to Breathe” – Remington Super 60″
• “Happiness Is Easy” – Talk Talk
• “Mon Amour Sauvage” – Dead Can Dance
• “For Phoebe Still A Baby” – Cocteau Twins
• “Kiss Her Kiss Her” – Blonde Redhead
• “Six Different Ways” – The Cure
• “Alone” – Carly Hann
• “Lovesleep” – Swallow
• “Juniper” – Forest Circles
• “Ten Grand Goldie” – Einstürzende Neubauten
• “Blind Hearts” – Clan Of Xymox
• “Projections” – Night Tapes”
• The Visitors” – Double Speak
• “Deus” – Sugar Cubes
• “Last Dance” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Sometimes” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Selene” – deary
• “Half A Person” – The Smiths
• “Skiptir engu (translates to “It doesn’t matter”)” – Fischersund, Jónsi, Kjartan Holm & Sin
• “Song To The Siren” – This Mortal Coil
• “Smoke” – Shye
• “Under Your Spell” – Desire
• “Thoughtforms” – Lush
• “Dark Horse” – Edward Ka-Spel
• “Crank” – Catherine Wheel
• “Just Drive” – Postiljonen
• “Feel This Flame Unfold” – Bragolin & Carrellee
• “Ruined In A Day” – New Order
• “Calling the Magazine” – Mind Cinema
• “Snow Heart” – Lucy La Dusk
• “The Dance Of The Birds” – Gergana Dimitrova & Lisa Gerrard
• “Beauty*2” – Ladytron
• “Compulsion” – Martin L. Gore

Today we feature music from Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, English Teacher, Julia Jacklin, and Broken Social Scene. We also play live recordings from The Cure and St. Vincent with Jules Buckley. Then we go back to our conversation with Resavoir ahead of his show this weekend on June 6 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit.

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 June 3, 2026 

• “Wild” – Molly Burch 

• “All My Freaks” – Divorce 

• “Lydia Wears a Cross” – Julia Jacklin 

• “Not Around Anymore” – Broken Social Scene 

• “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl” – Broken Social Scene 

• “Shriek (feat. William Brittelle) [Variation]” – Wye Oak, Metropolis Ensemble & Paul Wiancko 

• “Hell Is Near (Live)” – St. Vincent & Jules Buckley 

• “Disintegration (Remix) [Live at Wembley 7/89 – 7/09]” – The Cure 

• “Favourite” – Fontaines D.C. 

• “Nearly Daffodils” – English Teacher 

• “pokemon” – Wet Leg 

• “Memento (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir & Matt Gold 

• “Canopy (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir & Matt Gold 

• “Diversey Beach (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir, Matt Gold & Mei Semones 

• “Small Talk (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Whitney 

• “Far Cry (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir 

• “Fall In Love (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Slum Village 

• “Lilacs (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir 

• “Tea (feat. William Corduroy) (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir 

• “Time (feat. William Corduroy) (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir 

• “Deep Sleep (feat. Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer, Matt Gold & Macie Stewart) (In The Groove with Resavoir)” – Resavoir 

• “Like Swimwear (part two) [feat. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson]” – Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet 

• “I Love Hot Nights” – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers 

• “Ghetto Dub” – Bim Sherman 

• “Sun Is Shining” – Bob Marley 

• “Survivor” – Chronixx 

• “Stone Shadow” – Glyders 

• “mq9” – Automatic 

• “Dance” – ESG 

• “First Class (Soul in the Horn Remix)” – Khruangbin & Natasha Diggs 

• “Sun Circles (John Beltran Project Remix)” – Gratts 

• “Brooklyn Bossa (feat. Ricardo Barros & Teodross Avery)” – Soul In The Horn & Ahmed Sirour 

• “Breezin” – Boris Garbiner Happening 

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. 

Opening up the show with our longest “DEEEEETTTRRROOIIIITTTT BASKKKEEETTTBALLLLLLL” yet before jumping into brand new music from Detroit’s own Ian Fink, where he samples Cade Cunningham and turns it into a new hometown anthem. Plus, new music discovery from Honey Dijon, Alabama Shakes, IZCO, Jordan Rakei, Mary in the Junkyard, Dua Saleh 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 May 4, 2026

• “Loud In Detroit” – Ian Fink
• “I Like It Hot (feat. Greentea Peng)” – Honey Dijon
• “Let Your Hair Down (feat. Hutch the Great)” – Max Sinal
• “American Dream” – Alabama Shakes
• “Strike a Pose (feat. Camille Munn)” – IZCO
• “It Never Ends” – Jordan Rakei & Femi Koleoso
• “Crash Landing” – Mary in the Junkyard
• “Flood (feat. Bon Iver)” – Dua Saleh
• “HEAVENLY FATHER (Live – Mediolanum, Milan, IT. Nov 05 2022)” – Bon Iver
• “Sycamore” – Bill Callahan
• “Venus in the Zinnia” – Aldous Harding & H. Hawkline
• “You’re Out Wasting” – Andy Shauf
• “When The Sun Soaks In” – Deadbeat Beat
• “Dope On A Rope” – The Growlers
• “22° Halo” – pôt-pot
• “Disintegration” – The Cure
• “Dance Steve (feat. Jeff Parker)” – Anna Butterss
• “Three Piece Suit (feat. Azekel)” – Kokoroko
• “Crumb” – John Roseboro & Liana Flores
• “Vento A Favor (Instrumental)” – Sessa
• “Olhos de Sá” – Joutro Mundo
• “Rico Suave Bossa Nova” – Jay Dee & J Dilla
• “Summer Maddness S.A.” – Karriem Riggins
• “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” – Ananda Shankar
• “The Last Time” – Andrew Oldham Orchestra
• “E.V.A. (Remix)” – Fatboy Slim
• “Back On” – SBTRKT
• “Right On (feat. Joanna Newsom & STS)” – The Roots
• “Norfside (feat. Tierra Whack)” – Jill Scott
• “Gorilla” – Little Simz
• “Dog It” – Digable Planets
• “Diane Charlemagne (Iman Houssein Remix)” – LEFTO EARLY BIRD
• “Puaj” – Salin
• “Ricky Ricardo” – La China de La Gasolina
• “Osa Polar” – Melenas

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.

Rest in rhythm to the Purple One. Ten years ago today, we lost the musical legend Prince. Longtime Detroit promoter Adriel Thornton and writer, director and producer dream hampton call into the show to share their memories of how they mourned the loss of Prince a decade ago, plus a host of your favorite Prince picks and edits. 

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 21, 2026

• “17 Days (Piano & a Microphone 1983 Version)” – Prince
• “Another Baby!” – Dijon
• “DNM” – Mk.Gee
• “Sun Khosi” – Ruby Rushton
• “Rush” – Gerald Clayton
• “Red Moon” – Tom Misch
• “Cherry” – J.J. Cale
• “Are You Tired? (Keep on Singing)” – DARKSIDE
• “I’m Not Ready for the Change” – Nation of Language
• “Around the World in a Day” – Prince & The Revolution
• “Locked” – Four Tet
• “Sometimes It Snows In April” – Prince
• “2close2farr” – Momoko Gill
• “All That We Were” – Georgie Sweet
• “Into Harmony (feat. Julia Biel)” – Hector Plimmer
• “Uptown” – Prince
• “Purple” – Jamie 3-26
• “I Wanna Be Your Lover (Dimitri from Paris Mix)” – Prince
• “Do I Believe In God (LNTG Muscle Mix)” – Late Nite Tuff Guy
• “Flight Time” – Donald Byrd
• “P7 Blues” – SOYUZ
• “Xoxoxo” – corto.alto
• “Oxbow” – Waxahatchee
• “If You Change” – Widowspeak
• “Talk About The Passion” – R.E.M.
• “Here’s Where The Story Ends” – The Sundays
• “Linger (SiriusXM Session)” – Royel Otis
• “I Don’t Know You” – Mannequin Pussy
• “Alone (Four Tet Remix)” – The Cure

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.

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.