Celebrating Canada Day, today’s playlist is dedicated to Canadian artists, featuring music from Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Broken Social Scene, KAYTRANADA, The New Pornographers, Leonard Cohen, Feist, and more. We also revisit Feist’s special live performance of “Mushaboom,” recorded right here at WDET. 

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 1, 2026 

• “Champions of Red Wine” – The New Pornographers 

• “TRACK UNO” – KAYTRANADA 

• “Unconscious Melody” – Preoccupations 

• “Sweetest Kill” – Broken Social Scene 

• “BUS RIDE (feat. Karriem Riggins & River Tiber)” – KAYTRANADA 

• “The House That Heaven Built” – Japandroids 

• “Black Crow” – Joni Mitchell 

• “I Feel It All” – Feist 

• “Mushaboom (Live at WDET)” – Feist 

• “Strange (Dan the Automator Remix)” – Foxwarren 

• “Wasted on You” – Andy Shauf 

• “Bad Ones (feat. Tegan and Sara)” – Matthew Dear 

• “Helpless Sun (feat. Hayley Hutchinson)” – Tim Green 

• “Violent Shiver” – Benjamin Booker 

• “Defense” – Panda Bear 

• “Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)” – Devo 

• “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) Artist: Neil Young 

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

• “Incinerate” – Sonic Youth 

• “Mister Moonlight” – Clinic 

• “Suzanne” – Leonard Cohen 

• “Down by the River” – Neil Young & Crazy Horse 

• “Woodstock’s Dream” – Vince Guaraldi 

• “Stompin & Motorik’n” – Penza Penza 

• “Pata Pata (Stereo Version)” – Miriam Makeba 

• “Kodachrome” – Paul Simon 

• “Six O’Clock News” – Kathleen Edwards 

• “Problem with It” – Plains 

• “Love Is a Painting” – The Bug Club 

• “New Rose” – The Damned 

• “Tenderness” – Parquet Courts 

• “One Of These Things First” – Nick Drake 

• “This Time Tomorrow” – The Kinks 

• “Song for Ray” – Bronx River Parkway 

• “One with You” – RIO KOSTA 

• “Clothes Off” – Cousin Kula 

• “Gap in the Clouds” – Yellow Days 

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. 

This week on The Shake Out, it’s a spotlight on the legendary soul label Stax Records out of Memphis, Tennessee. Hear classics, deep cuts and stories, including some Detroit connections. Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and Booker T and the MGs are included of course, plus artists sent to Stax by Atlantic and covers of Otis songs by Detroit artists.

Plus a preview of the Foxwarren show coming up in Windsor next week and more. All on vinyl with host Dave Lawson.

The Shake Out playlist for June 30, 2026

• “Eloise (Hang on In There)” – William Bell
• “Girl You Have My Heart Singing” – Ollie and the Nightingales
• “Green Onions” – Booker T and the MGs
• “‘Cause I Love You” – Rufus and Carla
• “I Take It to My Baby” – Carla Thomas
• “Hard to Handle” – Otis Redding
• “Soul Finger” – Bar-Kays
• “Respect (live in Paris)” – Aretha Franklin
• “Security” – Etta James
• “She Put the Hurt on Me” – Charles Mann
• “Boot-Leg” – Booker T and the MGs
• “Wrap It Up” – Sam and Dave
• “Iron Out the Rough Spots” – Don Covay
• “Hole in the Wall” – The Packers
• “Dancing Annie” – Ted Taylor
• “634-5789” – Wilson Pickett
• “In the Midnight Hour” – Billy Preston
• “In the Midnight Hour” – The Wanted
• “Bring It on Home to Me” – Eddie Floyd
• “Hungover” – Martini’s
• “Everything Apart” – Foxwarren
• “Elevature” – The Flashing Lights
• “Time is Tight” – Booker T and the MGs
• “Freedom Highway” – The Staple Singers

Before I tell you all about the special guests we had performing live in-studio during this week’s MI Local, I have to tell you about Sounds Like Detroit! 

WDET’s annual Sounds Like Detroit Showcase will be on Thursday, Aug. 13, at Batch Brewing, featuring KTCHN (jazz), Aisha Ellis (jazz/neo-soul), Jubilee Jackson (hip-hop/R&B), and Michelle Held (folk).

These are artists that WDET listeners selected by vote, based on their video submissions to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest. Tickets are available now. Join me at Batch Brewing to see all four artists perform: let’s celebrate local music together! 

NOW, back to this week’s show! We heard new tracks from local artists like The Sad Hour (goth-rock), just in time for “Summerween,” as well as a new track from jazz composer/bandleader Austin Di Pietro. 

My in-studio guests included Carmel Liburdi, Mark Jewett, and the sister duo known as Jackamo.

Mark Jewett is a Plymouth based singer-songwriter who blends everything from tender folk to driving power-pop, while Jackamo lean toward Americana-rock sweetened with dazzling harmonies. Jewett will lead the group, The Strategic Advisors, on Thursday, July 9, at The Ark in Ann Arbor, with Jackamo opening. Both of these artists also performed live on the show this week!

Carmel Liburdi is a Detroit-based indie-folk singer-songwriter with a wide range of influences, including some DIY punk energy, but leaning toward sweet melodies with charming turns of phrase. Carmel released a new song this week and WDET listeners got to hear it for the first time last night! After we chatted with Carmel about their upcoming shows, we were also treated to a live performance.

Thanks for listening! And see you on Aug. 13 at Batch Brewing! 

I’m a sucker for a sweet sentiment wrapped up in a flannel-toned, 90’s alternative rock song that sounds like it could be the intro music for a family-friendly teen drama from 1995. 

If that sounds hyper-specific, know that it’s a subset of music that’s very popular right now, thanks to Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Kurt Vile , Courtney Barnett and others. It’s rooted in bands chasing that sound of Big Star and Lemonheads; of big guitars with a bit of fuzz and layers of jangle on top. It’s full but non-threatening. 

It’s music for soft, emotional lumberjacks. Or if you want to be boring about it, a contemporary take on college radio from 30 years ago.

No one is doing it better in my book than Widowspeak, the husband-and-wife duo of Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas. They’re now based in Brooklyn but originally from Washington. (You can hear that geography in their music.) They released their seventh album “Roses” on Captured Tracks on June 5.

Their excellent new single “If You Change” is everything I just described and more; a lovely little piece of dream pop with just a splash of alt-country. And the sentiment! Listen to these lyrics:

If you change, don’t change too much
‘Cause I really loved this one

It goes deeper than what I first suspected — a sweet little love song about liking someone as they are, even as they grow old together. According to vocalist-songwriter Molly Hamilton, it’s more than that, writing that she “thought about the fear of change, and when things (situations, objects) feel stuck in time because of a fear of ruining them. You always hear “mint condition” as though it is as an asset, but it also means that thing hasn’t been used, lived with, loved. It never gets to fulfill its destiny.”

Even without that lyrical depth, the song is an absolute banger that’s been stuck in my head for days.

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. 

This article was originally posted on Midbrow.

New music from Pigeon, Widowspeak, Marisa Anderson, Aldous Harding, Tara Clerkin Trio, and Ed O’Brien headline today’s mix. We also hear music from James Blake, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Jalen Ngonda, Gorillaz, Death Cab for Cutie, 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 June 30, 2026 

• “Mr. Train Conductor” – Jalen Ngonda 

• “Black James Dean” – Pigeon 

• “WRSW” – pôt-pot 

• “Life’s A Beach! (Prins Thomas Mix)” – Studio 

• “Straight Friends” – Deadbeat Beat 

• “Is It Real?” – Twisted Teens 

• “Matter of Taste” – Tyler Ballgame 

• “If You Change” – Widowspeak 

• “Hamd” – Marisa Anderson 

• “Canto Andino” – Hermanos Gutiérrez 

• “Another Fade (Sonic Boom Remix)” – Steve Gunn 

• “Lazy Daisy” – Tara Clerkin Trio 

• “Train on the Island” – Aldous Harding 

• “Love Story” – My New Band Believe 

• “Valsa” – Fabiano do Nascimento & Vittor Santos e Orquestra 

• “Blue Morpho” – Ed O’Brien 

• “Being Alive” – Cécile McLorin Salvant, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley 

• “Mellow Tony” – Joe Webb 

• “Prisoner of Love” – Gabrielle Cavassa 

• “Days Go By” – James Blake 

• “Opening Night” – Arctic Monkeys & War Child Records 

• “Like a Spark” – Rostam 

• “Riptides” – Death Cab for Cutie 

• “Douwannabwithastar” – GENA 

• “Japan Greatly (feat. Reek0 and S.I)” – IZCO 

• “Anyway, I’m Drowning” – Momoko Gill 

• “The Moon Cave (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, David Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought)” – Gorillaz 

• “Pawa! (Boys’ Shorts Remix)” – Asha Puthli & Say She She 

• “Devotion (Boys’ Shorts Remix)” – Hot Chip 

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. 

This week on Visions, I play a lot of different selections. You hear new music from the Kris Davis Trio, Dominique Eade and Ran Blake, Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier, Fuller Sound—which is sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Royston— and a record called “FATHERS” coming out on Blue Note next month.

I have selections from Stanley Clarke, the Rashied Ali Quintet, Nicholas Payton, Brad Mehldau, and Jimi Hendrix. I also play classics from Ahmad Jamal, Julian Priester, Shirley Scott, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, and Charles Mingus.

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

Visions Playlist for June 29, 2026

• “I’ll Take Romance / My Funny Valentine (Live at the Blackhawk, San Francisco/1961)” – Ahmad Jamal
• “24-Hour Leave” – Julian Priester
• “Backlash Blues” – Nina Simone
• “Beatrice” – Tia Fuller, Shamie Royston & Fuller Sound
• “PEARL” – Nate Smith, Kiefer, CARRTOONS, Kenny Beats
• “Out Of This World” – Shirley Scott
• “After The Rain” – John Coltrane
• “Lost In Geneva (feat. Robert Hurst* & Johnathan Blake)” – Kris Davis Trio
• “Bass Folk Song” – Stanley Clarke
• “Let It Ride (feat. Esperanza Spalding & Karriem Riggins*)” – Nicholas Payton
• “Thing for Joe” – Rashied Ali Quintet
• “The Star Spangled Banner (Live)” – Jimi Hendrix
• “Track A – Solo Dancer” – Charles Mingus
• “Grey December” – Ran Blake and Dominique Eade
• “Coma Berenices” – Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier
• “All the Things You Are (Live)” – Brad Mehldau

* indicates Detroit artist

After asking listeners to share their favorite summer tracks on the Groove Hotline, today’s playlist turns up the heat with picks from The Kinks, Frank Sinatra, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys and Leon Russell. We also hear music from Jarvis Cocker, Foxwarren, Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill, 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 June 29, 2026 

• “Black Magic” – Jarvis Cocker 

• “Only You Know” – Dion 

• “Back, Baby” – Jessica Pratt 

• “That Summer Feeling” – Jonathan Richman 

• “American Music” – Violent Femmes 

• “Strange Powers” – The Magnetic Fields 

• “Are You Glad to Be In America?” – James Blood Ulmer 

• “The Book I Read ( LP Version )” – Talking Heads 

• “Sycamore” – Bill Callahan 

• “Swingin Party” – The Replacements 

• “Sunny Afternoon” – The Kinks 

• “Kilimanjaro” – Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy 

• “O Samba Da Minha Terra” – Tamba Trio 

• “Se Baila Así” – Mexican Institute of Sound 

• “Summer Wind” – Frank Sinatra 

• “Sabrosa” – Beastie Boys 

• “Nine Years” – Ticklah 

• “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)” – Irma Thomas 

• “Holy Thursday” – David Axelrod 

• “Deadhead” – Foxwarren 

• “THE THING” – TOMORA, AURORA & Tom Rowlands 

• “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” – Nina Simone 

• “The Thief That Stole My Sad Days (Ya Blessin Me)” – Moodymann 

• “Fallen Again” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill 

• “Out in the Woods” – Leon Russell 

• “Nobody Knows” – Pastor T.L. Barrett and The Youth for Christ Choir 

• “Easy Street” – Amanaz 

• “Oh Louisiana” – Chuck Berry 

• “Drume Negrita” – Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban 

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. 

The week Big Sonic Heaven was full of new music out of the UK. From London, we heard a brand-new single from Night Tapes, new shoegaze from Velveteen, and sadplanet. We also heard indie dreampop band Swim Deep out of Birmingham and British shoegaze four-piece bdrmm. 

Back over on this side of the pond, we featured Milwaukee-based band SSAANN and our very own Bluhm out of Detroit.

Plus, we also heard some of your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for June 21, 2026:

• “Varúð” – Sigur Rós
• “Fine Friend” – Pale Saints
• “Flowing” – Cigarettes for Breakfast
• “Monopoly” – Yndling
• “Pieces of You” – Swim Deep
• “Diamonds In The Sand” – State Of Grace
• “Swim” – Night Tapes
• “Shiver And Shake” – The Cure
• “A Fool’s Paradise” – Velveteen
• “Cotton Candy Clouds” – Ringo Deathstarr
• “Wish You Well” – Peel Dream Magazine
• “Blue Bell Knoll” – Cocteau Twins
• “Blue Ribbon” – deary
• “Spanish Air” – Slowdive
• “Goodbye to Love” – Doublespeak
• “Higher Love” – Depeche Mode
• “do you?” – sadplanet
• “Construction Site” – Postcards
• “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – Swans
• “Faceless Angel (feat. Alias Error)” – Now Always Fades
• “Lusty” – Lamb
• “Typical” – Frazier Chorus
• “Haunt You Still” – Softcult
• “Sat in the Heat” – bdrmm
• “New Dawn” – Tokyo Shoegazer
• “You Look So Fine” – Garbage
• “Dirty Soul” – Bluhm
• “All Fire” – The Bellwether Syndicate
• “Paradise” – New Order
• “Come and Go” – Bodywash
• “Under the Sun” – DIIV
• “Shining Road” – Cranes
• “Echo” – SSAANN
• “Surely I Can’t Wait” – Nation of Language
• “Post Traumatic Love” – ACTORS
• “Summertime” – The Sundays
• “No Motion” – Dif Juz

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café,  we’re back to The Leon Loft for a visit with Australian 5-piece band The Paper Kites, playing songs old and new!

Also, in-studio archives from Detroit’s Joe Henry, Philly’s Jeffery Gaines and Jonathan Edwards (soon to turn 80).

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

Acoustic Café Playlist for June 28, 2026

• “Million Dollar Intro” – Ani DiFranco
• “Mushaboom” – Feist
• “Canopies” – Bedouine
• “Full Of Stars” – Death Cab For Cutie
• “Remember Yourself” – Modest Mouse
• “Sunshine” – Jonathan Edwards (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “City Of New Orleans” – Allen Toussaint
• “Stormwall” – The Paper Kites (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests)
• “Marietta” – The Paper Kites (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests)
• “Hope Of Fools” – Brother Wallace
• “Michigan” – Margaret Glaspy
• “Keep Us In Song” – Joe Henry (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “Good Good Love” – Jalen Ngonda
• “Idaho” – Jobi Riccio
• “Comes Around Again” – The Arcadian Wild
• “Life Can Be Hard” – Paul McCartney
• “Over And Over” – Jeffrey Gaines (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “The Fiddle & The Drum” – Renee Fleming & Bela Fleck
• “If I Could Speak To Leonard” – Rodney Crowell
• “Everybody Knows” – Dayna Kurtz (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “Broken Record” – Good Old War (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “Tennenbaum” – The Paper Kites (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests)
• “Every Town” – The Paper Kites (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests)

Listen to Acoustic Café with host Rob Reinhart every Sunday from 1-3 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org

This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music we play all Canadian artists, as we do each year before the July 1 holiday! Some legends, some newcomers… from First Nations to Quebecois, honoring and thanking our neighbors to the north, east and south!

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 27, 2026

HOUR ONE:

• “The Canadian Dream” – The Sam Roberts Band
• “Aujourd’hui, ma vie c’est d’la marde” – Lisa LeBlanc
• “Ladida” – Rochelle Jordan
• “Spit It Out” – KAYTRANADA (ft. Rochelle Jordan)
• “Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone” – Glass Tiger
• “All This Disaster” – Jesse Welles
• “Serpentine Fire” – Sarah McLachlan
• “Black Lavender” – Allison Russell
• “Here We Go Again” – Sloan
• “The Spirit Of Radio” – Rush
• “2112 Overture” – Canadian Brass
• “Music Always” – AV & The Inner City
• “Running Home” – Jade LeMac
• “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” – Blood, Sweat & Tears (RIP David Clayton Thomas)

HOUR TWO:

• “Dearborn” – Bahamas
• “Woodward Ave.” – Elliott Brood
• “Ancestor NRG” – Handsome Tiger
• “Midnight Call” – Harkirat Sangha
• “Blonde In The Bleachers” – Joni Mitchell
• “Need You To Go” – Teagan Littlechief
• “You Wouldn’t Like Me” – Tegan & Sara
• “Little Miss Twain” – Shania Twain
• “Fifty-Mission Cap” – The Tragically Hip
• “Purple Gas” – Noeline Hafmann
• “Here With Me (eya ota ayaw)” – Tammy Rae
• “Crabbukit” – k-os
• “Superficial Love” – Ruth B
• “Summertime” – Oscar Peterson

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

After six years, Phoebe Bridgers returns with her first new solo album since 2020, previewing the record with the lead single “Lost Boys.” Today’s playlist also features new music from Palace, alongside artists including James Blake, Nilüfer Yanya, Radiohead, Sault, Julian Lage, Romare, and Dave Brubeck.  

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for June 26, 2026 

• “Dream On” – Palace 

• “Ride Lonesome” – Beck & Sierra Ferrell 

• “I’d Have to Be Crazy” – Willie Nelson 

• “The Big Idea” – Lily Talmers 

• “I’LL BE YOUR FRIEND” – Ruti 

• “Soft Cover” – Widowspeak 

• “Mellow Tony” – Joe Webb 

• “Northern Shuffle” – Julian Lage 

• “SAME KIND OF LONELY” – Benjamin Booker 

• “OSAKA” – Athletic Progression 

• “Rising Son” – Takuya Kuroda 

• “Kneel Artist” – Nilüfer Yanya 

• “There, There” – Radiohead 

• “Midnight Sun (king krule Remix)” – Nilüfer Yanya & King Krule 

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

• “Show Me (Thabo Tonick Remix)” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill 

• “Breathe” – Romare 

• “Freaks” – Joshwa 

• “Douha (Mali Mali) [Edit]” – Disclosure & Fatoumata Diawara 

• “Yambú (feat. Daymé Arocena) [Sacred Rhythm Mix]” – Joe Claussell” 

• “Make Something Up” – James Blake 

• “Lost Boys” – Phoebe Bridgers 

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

• “Spinning” – Julia Holter 

• “Fear No One” – Sault 

• “Take Five” – Dave Brubeck 

• “Rose Rouge” – St Germain 

• “So Nice (Summer Samba) [Azari & III Remix]” – Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley Trio 

• “The Devil & Mister Jones” – Spoon 

• “Big Beat Bam (Remix)” – Sister Nancy 

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. 

When Sylvia Moy auditioned for Motown as a singer it opened a lane for her as a songwriter. But she would eventually discover that that lane would be littered with barriers.

Moy persevered, building a career at Motown as a songwriter and producer on some of the label’s biggest tracks. She also played a role in developing Stevie Wonder’s career as he began to notch multiple hit songs.

Moy, however, was not given credit for her efforts, and for many years, the scale of her impact remained unknown.

Dr. Margena Christian wrote about Moy’s career in her new book  “It’s No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown’s Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy.” In it, she chronicles Moy’s early life, and her struggle to receive credit for her contributions to Motown and music history.

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Today’s playlist takes a trip around the world, blending jazz, soul, Latin rhythms, funk, rock, and disco with Ryan Porter, Grace Jones, D’Angelo, Bad Bunny, Willie Colón, Seu Jorge, Black Sabbath, and Talking Heads. 

Check the playlist below and listen to the show above for up to two weeks before it expires.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for June 25, 2026 

• “Déjà Vu” – Ryan Porter 

• “Bunny” – Ashley Henry & The RE: Ensemble 

• “La Vie En Rose” – Grace Jones 

• “Sugah Daddy” – D’Angelo and The Vanguard 

• “Get Yourself Together” – Jay-u Experience 

• “Disco Dancer” – Kiki Gyan 

• “Pedro Navaja” – Willie Colón & Ruben Blades 

• “DtMF” – Bad Bunny 

• “El diablo” – Gabriel Rios 

• “Changes” – Seu Jorge 

• “Bread (butter version)” – SOFI TUKKER & Seu Jorge 

• “Favela” – Ike Quebec 

• “Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries” – Willie Bobo 

• “Spellbinder” – Gabor Szabo 

• “Tandem Jump” – Jonathan Richman 

• “Overlander” – The Budos Band 

• “Hand of Doom” – Black Sabbath 

• “Nothin’ in the World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl” – The Kinks 

• “Street Fighting Man” – The Rolling Stones 

• “The Last Time” – Andrew Oldham Orchestra 

• “Baby I Got News for You” – Kelley Stoltz 

• “Baby Drugs” – Tristen 

• “Nothing To Me” – Minna 

• “Skin Is, My” – Andrew Bird 

• “Ghost of Stephen Foster” – Squirrel Nut Zippers 

• “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 

• “I Walk On Guilded Splinters” – Dr John 

• “The Great Beyond” – R.E.M. 

• “Heaven” – Talking Heads 

• “Love Is The Drug (Todd Terje Disco Dub)” – Roxy Music 

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. 

This weekend is filled with events for film enthusiasts, and The Senate Theater is offering a way to start the summer off. 

The theater is launching its “Hot, Sweaty and Weird” summer film series of B-movies to keep audiences engaged this summer.

The series is launching with a Pride-themed event on Saturday, June 27 at 5 p.m. The screening will also feature the documentary “The Cockettes” and John Waters’ “Multiple Maniacs.” 

Larry Bohannan (Sister Gichi Gichi Yaya, or Larry the “T-Shirt” guy) and Elena Theresa (Sister Este Lauder, Harder, Faster) joined the show to discuss the series and the history of Motor City Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a leading order of Queer nuns. 

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Today’s playlist features artists like Wire, Buzzcocks, Devo, U2, The Marías, Cleo Sol, Labi Siffre, and IDLES, bridging decades of music from influential classics to emerging artists. Along the way, remixes from Nicolas Jaar, John Beltran, and Prins Thomas add an electronic touch. 

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 24, 2026 

• “Wire” – Omni 

• “Outdoor Miner (2006 Remastered Version)” – Wire 

• “Lie In the Gutter” – Peel Dream Magazine 

• “Heaven (Nicolas Jaar Remix)” – Kasper Bjørke 

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

• “I Used To Live In A House” – Novablood 

• “Life’s A Beach! (Prins Thomas Mix)” – Studio 

• “Bless the Telephone” – Labi Siffre 

• cad“Doom Mood” – Pearl & The Oysters 

• “Why Don’t You” – Cleo Sol 

• “Kind of Latin Rhythm” – The Juju Orchestra 

• “New Age” – Blitz 

• “Why Can’t I Touch It? (2001 Remastered Version)” – Buzzcocks 

• “Geneva Strangemod” – Glyders 

• “I Want Some” – The Make-Up 

• “The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize” – Devo 

• “I’LL BE YOUR FRIEND” – Ruti 

• “Hush” – The Marías 

• “Hit My Head All Day” – Dry Cleaning 

• “I Will Follow” – U2 

• “Cough / Cool” – The Misfits 

• “Ghost Rider (2019 Remaster)” – Suicide 

• “State Trooper” – Bruce Springsteen 

• “POP POP POP” – IDLES 

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. 

On this week’s show, I revealed the lineup for the 2026 Sounds Like Detroit Showcase, as voted on by WDET listeners!

This is WDET’s version of NPR’s annual Tiny Desk Contest, where we present 10 local artists who submitted to the national program and let YOU decide which ones you’d like to see perform live at our showcase happening at Batch Brewing on Aug. 13. Tickets are available NOW. 

On the show, I sampled songs from each of the winning artists, including modern jazz from KTCHEN, a blend of jazz and neo-soul from Aisha Ellis, passionate and poetic hip-hop, R&B and soul from Jubilee Jackson, and then the special MI Local pick, the storytelling folk ballads from singer-songwriter Michelle Held! 

This is the fourth annual Sounds Like Detroit Showcase, and my third time serving as your official emcee, so take my word for it when I tell you: you don’t wanna miss this! It’s a special night with incredible vibes where YOU can discover your new favorite local artist! Or, if you cast a vote, then join us to cheer on your favorite! It’s a celebration of local music, brought to you by WDET! Stay tuned for more featurettes on MI Local in the weeks ahead, and make sure you get your tickets now! 

Meanwhile, we also had a ton of premieres this week on the show, including a new single from Hamtramck-based singer-songwriter John Salvage, who has a new album out in July, along with Ricochet The Kid, The Quitters, Ani Mari, and more!

My in-studio guests were organizers of a special film screening event happening at the Outer Limits Lounge this weekend, where they’ll be showing a rarely-seen music documentary that captures the scene around Detroit in 1979, titled Face The 80s. We talked about the legacy of bands from that era, including The Romantics and Destroy All Monsters, and sampled songs by bands featured in the film, like Algebra Mothers, Sonics Rendezvous Band, and more.

Listen to the full show above for up to two weeks after it airs.

This week on The Shake Out: the origins of an iconic 50s classic, a rare Michigan rock’n’roll record from Little Mac and the Bravadoes, early tunes by the Marvelettes and Martha and the Vandellas (when they were stilled called the Del-Phi’s), the session where Bob Dylan met Robbie Robertson (featuring Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman) plus songs from Outrageous Cherry, The Nerves, Bonnie Raitt and much more. All on vinyl with host Dave Lawson.

The Shake Out playlist for June 23, 2026

• “I’m on My Way” – Mahalia Jackson
• “Old Time Love” – The Rivingtons
• “Twistin’ Fever” – The Marcels
• “Billy’s Blues” – Billy Stewart
• “Love Is Strange” – Bo Diddley
• “No Good Lover” – Mickey and Sylvia
• “Steam Roller” – Mickey Baker
• “He Don’t Love You (And He’ll Break Your Heart)” – Levon and the Hawks
• “I Wish You Would” – John Hammond
• “Juicy” – Willie Bobo
• “Nobody Loves Me Like My Baby” – Jimmy Gilford
• “Dance Baby (with Me)” – Little Mac and the Bravadoes
• “Out of the Blue” – Tommy James
• “Soul Sauce” – Cal Tjader
• “Stay Right Here for a Little While” – Outrageous Cherry
• “When You Find Out” – The Nerves
• “The Ox” – The Who
• “Too Many Tears” – Miles Stone
• “Movin’ Too Slow” – The Exciters
• “Marsanova” – Hank Marr
• “Tossin and Turnin” – Bobby Lewis
• “Twistin’ Postman” – Marvelettes
• “The White House Twist” – Twistin’ Kings
• “I’ll Let You Know” – The Del Phis
• “You’ve Been in Love Too Long” – Bonnie Raitt
• “Payback (instrumental)” – Johnny Good

Rest in rhythm to the avant garde blues-funk guitarist James Blood Ulmer, plus new music from Kurt Vile ahead of his show on Thursday at St. Andrew’s Hall and fresh selections from the wonderful voice of Sabina McCalla.

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 23, 2026

• Are You Glad to Be In America? – James Blood Ulmer
• Zoom 97 – Kurt Vile
• Wild – Molly Burch
• Summer Girl (Bonus Track) – HAIM
• Meu Amor – Julio Secchin & Maria Luiza Jobim
• Bye Bye Papaye (Lexx Mix) – Antena
• Pata Pata (Stereo Version) – Miriam Makeba
• Home to You – Cate Le Bon
• That’s Us/Wild Combination – Arthur Russell
• Strange Overtones – David Byrne & Brian Eno
• Sunshine Kisses – Sabine McCalla
• First World Problem – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• I Wanna Know If It’s Good To You – Funkadelic
• Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka (Rework) – Owiny Sigoma Band
• Dirty Money – Antibalas
• Ouroboros – Goat
• St. James Infirmary – Allen Toussaint
• Evening Breeze – Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
• Family – Brenda
• Girl You Need a Change of Mind – Eddie Kendricks
• Tell Me – Clive From Accounts
• Tart Tart (The Reflex Revision) – Happy Mondays
• Train In Vain – The Clash
• Hit the North, Pt. 1 – The Fall
• Let Forever Be – The Chemical Brothers
• Dos Gardenias – Buena Vista Social Club
• Me Gustas Tú – Manu Chao
• Where I’m From (Tom Misch Remix) – Kiko Bun
• Love and Happiness – Monty Alexander
• African Skies – Lars Bartkuhn 

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.

This week on Visions, I celebrate two greats we lost last week. One of them is Detroit’s very own trumpeter, Rayse Biggs. The other is South African pianist, Abdullah Ibrahim.

In addition to several selections by them, I play the Helen Sung Big Band, sparklmami, Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw, Charles Mingus, Detroit’s Pamela Wise, Elsa Nilsson, Sullivan Fortner, Grant Green, and more.

This episode spans seven decades of music from the late 50’s to the 2020’s. Happy listening!

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

Visions Playlist for June 22, 2026

• “Calling Miss Khadija” – Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw
• “Tintinyana” – Abdullah Ibrahim
• “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – Charles Lloyd
• “Night Mist” – Rayse Biggs*
• “Convergence” – Helen Sung Big Band
• “fajas” – sparklmami
• “Blues for a Hip King” – Abdullah Ibrahim
• “Khalil’s Promise” – Pamela Wise*
• “Organ Grinder” – Sullivan Fortner
• “Reincarnation of a Lovebird” – Charles Mingus
• “Walk On By (Live)” – Grant Green
• “Little Waltz” – Thad Jones* & Pepper Adams* Quintet
• “Piece of Heaven” – Rayse Biggs
• “No Pidas Imposibles” – Melissa Aldana
• “Encounter” – Trio 3
• “Yesterday’s Promise” – Elsa Nilsson
• “Hymn to Freedom” – Oscar Peterson

* indicates Detroit artist