Lots of throwbacks today led by birthday candles for Gil Scott Heron and Marvin Gaye, alongside Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, a fond farewell for Chicago guitarist George Freeman, Bob Marley and more… enjoy!

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 2, 2025

• “We Almost Lost Detroit” – Gil Scott Heron
• “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” – Marvin Gaye
• “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” – Marvin Gaye
• “Puaj” – Salin
• “Traveling With (LIVE ON WDET session)” – Daniel Villarreal (hear the full session here)
• “Sunset Cliffs (LIVE ON WDET session)” – Daniel Villarreal (hear the full session here)
• “Bumpin’” – Wes Montgomery
• “Be Honest (feat. Madison McFerrin)” – A Song For You
• “Supernatural (Extended Mix)” – We Are KING
• “Ode To The Year 9125” – Tall Black Guy
• “Award Tour (feat. Trugoy the Dove)” – A Tribe Called Quest
• “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” – Digable Planets
• “Eye Know (feat. Otis Redding)” – De La Soul
• “Castles Made of Sand” – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• “Confirmed Truth” – George Freeman
• “High Tide or Low Tide (B is for Bob Mix)” – Bob Marley & the Wailers
• “Tom Drunk (feat. U-Roy)” – Hopeton Lewis
• “Lady Day and John Coltrane” – Gil Scott Heron
• “Home Is Where the Hatred Is” – Gil Scott Heron
• “Hot Sun” – Wilco
• “Midnight Sun” – Nilüfer Yanya
• “! MAVIS BEACON” – Saya Gray
• “Motorcycle” – Remi Wolf
• “Future Lover” – Thee Sacred Souls
• “I Want You (John Morales M+M Pianopella Mix)” – Marvin Gaye
• “Ha Ya! (Eternal Life) [feat. Natalie Greffel]” – musclecars
• “Patience (Maurice Fulton Remix)” – Tame Impala
• “Do Yourself A Favor” – Stevie Wonder
• “BACK ON” – SBTRKT
• “Just Can’t Get Enough” – Channel Tres

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.

There’s no April Fools here! Just a serious love of music — all music, from all genres, brought together through common vibe and feel. New music from High Vis, Bab L’ Bluz, Beth Gibbons (in town on April 7 at Masonic Cathedral Theatre), Lizzo, Orions Belte, Sparklmami and more.

The big thing on the musical menu is revisiting the Garden State soundtrack 20 years later, including selections from The Shins, Nick Drake, Thievery Corporation and Frou Frou.

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 1, 2025

• “Sexy To Someone” – Clairo
• “All I Want” – Broken Social Scene
• “Image” – Magdalena Bay
• “Mind’s A Lie” – High Vis
• “Wave To Anchor” – Hundred Waters
• “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” – Paul McCartney & Wings
• “Elevate” – St. Lucia
• “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” – Michael Jackson
• “Mahlalela” – Hugh Masekela & Letta Mbulu
• “Only Good for Conversation” – Rodriguez
• “Bangoro (Gitkin Remix)” – Bab L’ Bluz
• “On The Road” – Rattlesnake Milk
• “New Slang” – The Shins
• “One of These Things First” – Nick Drake
• “Drinkin’ on a Tuesday” – Sarah Mary Chadwick
• “Let Go” – Frou Frou
• “Lebanese Blonde” – Thievery Corporation
• “Reaching Out” – Beth Gibbons
• “Glory Box (Live / Remastered 2023)” – Portishead
• “All Mine” – Portishead
• “Black Coffee” – Sarah Vaughn
• “20 Feet Tall” – Erykah Badu
• “Run Outs” – Alfa Mist
• “Nite” – Gossip
• “South (feat. Lex Amor)” – Wu-Lu
• “TOUCH” – Sparklmami & Les Sons Du Cosmos
• “The Carneddau” – Orions Belte
• “Still Bad” – Lizzo
• “Begin Again (Joe Goddard Remix)” – Jessie Ware
• “Gentle Thoughts” – Herbie Hancock
• “Dangerous” – Surprise Chef
• “Hangin’ on Your Lips” – Cousin Kula
• “Red Room” – Hiatus Kaiyote
• “Mammone (feat. SHOLTO & David Bardon)” – Rachel Kitchlew & SFJ
• “Loso Na Madesu (feat. Natanya) [Lewis OfMan Remix]” – Brian Nasty

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Diving back into the week with new music from Σtella, Los Piranas, Celine Dessberg, Okonski, José Junior and more, plus a belated birthday party for George Benson and look ahead to an upcoming concert from Leon Bridges.

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 March 31, 2025

• “Ribbon in the Sky (1982 Musiquarium Version)” – Stevie Wonder
• “Timeless (feat. Lianne La Havas)” – Oscar Jerome
• “Take Five” – George Benson
• “Adagio” – Σtella
• “Una Mañana” – Caramelo Haze
• “Despectiva caridad” – Los Piranas
• “Projections” – José Junior
• “Tomorrow Never Knows” – Beatles
• “Selenge” – Céline Dessberg
• “October” – Okonski
• “Burnin’ Coal” – Les McCann
• “N.I.T.A.” – Young Marble Giants
• “Heartbeat” – Wire
• “That’s Entertainment” – The Jam
• “Colores Del Mar” – Helado Negro
• “Motorway” – Goat Girl
• “In My Head” – Rosie Lowe
• “Deep Dark Cosmos” – Holly Walker
• “Charlie Loves Gracia” – Penza Penza
• “Lonsdale Slipons” – Bug Club
• “Violence” – Parquet Courts
• “Before the Water Gets Too High” – Parquet Courts
• “Half The Truth” – Sūn Byrd
• “Bad Bad News” – Leon Bridges
• “Morning (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix)” – Azymuth
• “Blue Ridge Mountains” – Fleet Foxes
• “Let Go” – NewDad
• “2020” – SUUNS
• “Saturator” – Kiln
• “The Equalizer” – Clinic
• “Speak To Me” – Julian Lage
• “Guns of Brixton (feat. Yan Jun) [L’été Chinois]” – Dub Mentor
• “The Killing Moon” – Nouvelle Vague
• “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” – Wilco
• “New York, Let’s Do Nothing” – King Hannah
• “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” – Father John Misty
• “The Turning Ground” – Tara Clerkin Trio
• “Mixo World” – Time Wharp

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.

What a dream to have percussionist and bandleader Daniel Villarreal live on WDET during In The Groove.

I was first introduced to Villarreal’s music via a friend in Chicago, where Villarreal and his band call home. After popping on my headphones, going for a long walk and listening to Villarreal’s excellent ‘Panamá 77’ album, I was hooked. The plot on how I could get him to Detroit to perform began!

Thankfully, our friends at Moondog Café solved that issue, booking Villarreal for a live set at their new venue.

And ahead of that performance in Detroit, Villarreal brought the band by the studio to perform a handful of tracks, including “Traveling With” (from his 2023 effort ‘Lados B’), the unreleased song “Bakers Dozen,” “Sunset Cliffs” (another ‘Lados B’ cut) plus “I Didn’t Expect That” from ‘Panamá 77.’

You’ll also hear an interview with Villarreal about his time playing in punk bands in Panama and how that translates to the abstract jazz he plays today.

Hear the performance and interview using the audio player above.

Keep up with Villarreal’s music at danielvillarrealmusic.com.

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Man, we got pretty spaced out today with selections from Can, Nala Sinephro, new music from Tortoise, Mabe Fratti and more.

Plus, the final selections from the groove hotline of your favorite Aretha Franklin songs (although I’ll keep playing those forever — thanks to everyone that left a message!).

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 March 27, 2025

• “Bugs” – Jamila Woods
• “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” – Angie Stone
• “Empire (feat. John Carroll Kirby)” – Eddie Chacon
• “Royalty” – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
• “Soul” – James Alexander Bright
• “Vitamin C” – Can
• “Na Na” – Coke
• “Dub Je Je” – Antibalas
• “Late Night People” – Yazmin Lacey
• “Hood Pass Intact” – Dam Funk
• “The Thrill Is Gone” – Aretha Franklin
• “Feels So Bad” – Junior Kimbrough
• “Côte D’ivoire” – Yoni Mayraz
• “100 Years Of Bill & Lil” – Joe Webb
• “TNT” – Tortoise
• “Oganesson” – Tortoise
• “Heartbeat” – Wire
• “Come See About Me” – Afghan Whigs
• “Cough / Cool” – Misfits
• “A Forest (Tree Mix)” – The Cure
• “Androgynous” – The Replacements
• “Muzzle of Bees” – Norah Jones & Jeff Tweedy
• “Hurts To Be Alone” – Norah Jones
• “Poinciana (Live at The Pershing, Chicago, 1958)” – Ahmad Jamal Trio
• “Crushxd” – Crumb
• “Continuum 5 / 6” – Nala Sinephro
• “Be Reasonable – Somesurprises
• “Kravitz” – Mabe Fratti
• “Your House (feat. Astrid Sonne & Fine)” – Coined
• “When I Was Younger” – Bonny Light Horseman
• “Say You Love Me” – Astrid Sonne
• “Ramble In The Rainbow” – TAMTAM
• “We Are The People” – Work Money Death

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.

Since I first heard The Bug Club not too long ago, I’ve been completely in love with their fast-and-loose sense of humor paired with great songwriting and guitar riffs (like, way above average tasty wasters — they used to be a blues group, so it makes sense).

They’ve got a new album coming out this year called “Very Human Features” on Sub Pop. And on our first taste of it — the single “Jealous Boy”— it’s very human stuff. Definitely a bit more mature and honest and from the heart than some of their other stuff, which doesn’t take anything away from previous works (like last year’s excellent “On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System,” also via Sub Pop) but is certainly exciting to listen to some evolution from the duo.

On “Jealous Boy,” guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris go back-to-back on vocals, and it makes for a splendid earworm. 

Listen to the In The Groove song of the week below. Bug Club’s new album, “Very Human Features,” will be out this June via Sub Pop.

I love being able to bring Spiritualized and The Rolling Stones together, plus a bunch of fresh releases from SHY FX, Lady Wray, Hannah Cohen, Nightmares on Wax, Moses Sumney and many more. That’s the pleasure of public radio! Genre doesn’t matter — good music does!

Plus, a bunch of your voicemails celebrating Aretha Franklin, who would’ve been 83 this week. Why not just turn it into Aretha Week on In The Groove? With your voicemails?! I’ve still got space for a few more — feel free to drop me a line on the groove hotline at 313-577-3414, and I’ll play it on air!

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 March 26, 2025

• “Risk It All (feat. Maverick Sabre) [Acoustic]” – SHY FX
• “High Tide or Low Tide (B is for Bob Mix)” – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• “Best For Us” – Lady Wray
• “Dusty” – Hannah Cohen
• “Typical (feat. Jordan Rakei) [Little Dragon’s Rick Ride Remix]” – Nightmares On Wax
• “You’re All I Need to Get By (Take 2)” – Aretha Franklin
• “Spirit In the Dark (Live February 7, 1971)” – Aretha Franklin
• “Spirit In the Dark (Reprise with Ray Charles) [Live February 7, 1971]” – Aretha Franklin
• “Miss Perfumado (4 Hero Remix)” – Cesária Evora
• “American Cars (Africanz on Marz West Coast Drive Rework)” – Sam
• “Hey Girl(s)” – Moses Sumney, Syd & Meshell Ndegeocello
• “The Other Lover” – Little Dragon & Moses Sumney
• “Retold” – Nate Smith
• “Liquid Sunshine” – John Cameron
• “I Say A Little Prayer” – Aretha Franklin
• “Inertia” – Samora Pinderhughes
• “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – Rolling Stones
• “I Think I’m in Love” – Spirtualized
• “Jealous Boy” – The Bug Club (In The Groove Pick of the Week)
• “It’s Amazing To Be Young” – Fontaines D.C.
• “Sonny The Strong” – Gaz Coombes
• “West Side” – Studio
• “Untitled” – Interpol
• “Plainsong” – Seefeel
• “Boxing Feat. King Krule (DJ Python Remix)” – Mount Kimbie
• “Spacelab” – Kraftwerk
• “Clear (Jose “Animal” Diaz Remix)” – Cybotron
• “Sharivari” – Dirtbombs
• “L.O.V.E. and You and I (Madlib Remix)” – Jazzanova

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.

We’re going in on some Aretha Franklin today for her birthday, and really just turning the rest of the week into a celebration of her with your voicemails (those will start airing tomorrow). Plus, an anniversary of MF DOOM & Madlib making one of my favorite hip hop records of all time. New music from Black Country, New Road, Tall Black Guy, Cleo Sol, Cari Cari and lots 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 March 25, 2025

• “Besties” – Black Country, New Road
• “Too Many People” – Paul & Linda McCartney
• “Dear Prudence” – Gabor Szabo
• “Golden Age of Life” – 4hero
• “Another Day (feat. Jill Scott)” – 4hero
• “Just Can’t Get Enough” – Channel Tres
• “I Can Say To You (Toribio Remix)” – Butcher Brown
• “Just The Two Of Us” – Bill Withers & Grover Washington, Jr.
• “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” – Hall & Oates
• “Why Must It Be” – Tall Black Guy / Black Vandross
• “Cards On The Table” – Nia Archives
• “He Will Follow You With His Eyes” – Corinne Bailey Rae
• “Unlikely” – Bel Cobain
• “Jimtastic Blues” – Greentea Peng
• “Didn’t Cha Know” – Erykah Badu
• “Imazeghen N Adagh” – Tinariwen
• “Go For Broke” – Bo Diddley
• “Black Crow (Demo)” – Joni Mitchell
• “Fear When You Fly” – Cleo Sol
• “In The Air” – SAULT
• “Best Kind Of Lost” – Joshua Idehen
• “Accordion” – Madvillain
• “Raid (feat. MED)” – Madvillain
• “ALL CAPS” – Madvillain
• “Summer Madness S.A.” – Karriem Riggins
• “Day Dreaming” – Aretha Franklin
• “Dreamin’” – Common & Pete Rock
• “Rock Steady (Jammin Keys Edit)” – Aretha Franklin
• “One More Trip Around The Sun” – Cari Cari
• “Bangoro (Gitkin Remix)” – Bab L’ Bluz
• “I Gotta Try You Girl” – Junior Kimbrough
• “S.N.C.” – DARKSIDE
• “Computer Love” – Kraftwerk
• “Son Of A Preacher Man” – Aretha Franklin

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.

Obsession of the week is no doubt “Jealous Boy” by Bug Club, who are quickly becoming one of my favorite bands of the past couple years. They’re getting ready to drop a new album later this year, so they’ll be in heavy rotation no doubt. Karen Nyame KG’s excellent remix of Joshua Idehen’s “Tactics for Survival” stopped me dead in my tracks, too. Heavy on Portishead and their former lead singer Beth Gibbons, who will be bringing her solo record (and some Portishead selections) to the Masonic Cathedral Theatre on April 7. Enjoy!

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 March 24, 2025

• “Jealous Boy” – Bug Club
• “Daylight Song” – Wu-Lu
• “A Figure In The Surf” – Mount Kimbie
• “Somber The Drums” – DIIV
• “Brakhage” – Stereolab
• “Carried Away” – H.E.R.
• “What’s This About (La La La La)” – Kate Bollinger
• “Super Breath” – Karen O & Danger Mouse
• “Us Alone (Time Cow Remix)” – Jabu
• “Remedy” – Karen Nyame KG
• “Tactics for Survival (Karen Nyame KG Remix)” – Joshua Idehen & Hanakiv
• “Meet Your Shadow (feat. Bex Burch, Danalogue, Al MacSween, Sarathy Korwar & Tamar Osborn)” – Flock
• “(Nothing But) Flowers” – Talking Heads
• “Hurdy Gurdy Man” – Donovan
• “She Cleans Up” – Father John Misty
• “Supersad” – Suki Waterhouse
• “My Fun” – Suki Waterhouse
• “Pretty Good” – John Prine
• “Cactus” – Pixies
• “This Mess We’re In” – PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke
• “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” – Baby Charles
• “Rosewood” – Bobby Hutcherson
• “Bells Are Ringing (Harvey Sutherland Dub)” – Mondo Freaks & Harvey Sutherland
• “Nos Somos as Estrelas” – Adrian Younge
• “Mysterons” – Portishead
• “The Rip” – Portishead
• “Beyond The Sun” – Beth Gibbons
• “Cold Little Heart” – Michael Kiwanuka
• “Saturday Night Special” – Jazzanova
• “Ozan Koukle (Remastered)” – Lafayette Afro Rock Band & Ice
• “The Mystery of Man” – Zara McFarlane
• “Time: The Donut Of Heart” – Jaubi
• “Mosty (feat. Latarnik & Tenderlonious)” – Jaubi
• “Where’s My Brain???” – Lazy Eyes
• “Bakers Dozen (unreleased)” – Daniel Villarreal

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.

Our playlist gets a bit interrupted when we’ve got to pause our programming for the spring fundraiser. And a lot of you asked about the music we were playing! So I put it all in one playlist for you — broken down by day it aired and theme (as it turns out, we did lose two days of the fundraising shows due to a technical difficulty, so sorry about that!).

Check the playlists and listen for two weeks after the air date using the media players below. And if you didn’t get a chance to make a gift to WDET during fundraiser, it’s not too late to support your source for news, music and conversation!

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlists for WDET’S SPRING FUNDRAISER 2025

Monday, March 10 (Belle Isle Bangers)

• “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” – Roy Ayers Ubiquity
• “Weak” – SWV
• “Climbing” – Caribou
• “Happy Feelin’s” – Maze & Frankie Beverly
• “Help Me Lose My Mind (feat. London Grammar)” – Disclosure
• “Ain’t It Nice” – Madison McFerrin
• “No One’s Watching Me (feat. Olivia Dean)” – Ezra Collective
• “Her Strut (Remastered)” – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• “I Want You (John Morales M+M Pianopella Mix)” – Marvin Gaye
• “I’m Coming Out” – Diana Ross
• “Didn’t I (Dave Allison Rework)” – Darondo
• “This Land Is Your Land” – Chicano Batman
• “Turnin’ Me Up” – BJ the Chicago Kid
• “American Dreaming” – Sierra Ferrell

Tuesday, March 11

• “It’s Rough On Rats (If You’re Asking)” – Jack White
• “Inner City Blues” – Rodriguez
• “S.N.C.” – Darkside
• “Thrown Around” – James Blake
• “Operator (DJ Koze’s Disco Edit)” – Låpsley
• “Mum Does the Washing” – Joshua Idehen
• “Because I’m Me” – The Avalanches
• “I Think Of You” – Rodriguez
• “AA   BOUQUET   FOR   YOUR   180   FACE” – Saya Gray
• “Another Star” – Stevie Wonder
• “Back 2 Me (feat. Sadie Walker)” – Girls Of The Internet

Wednesday, March 12 (Motown Throwdown)

• “Money (That’s What I Want) [Single Version / Mono]” – Barrett Strong
• “Cruisin’” – Smokey Robinson
• “Respect” – Aretha Franklin
• “Please Mr. Postman” – The Marvelettes
• “Needle In a Haystack (Single Version)” – The Velvelettes
• “Love Child” – Diana Ross & the Supremes
• “We Can Work It Out” – Stevie Wonder
• “P.Y.T.” – Michael Jackson
• “Didn’t Cha Know” – Erykah Badu
• “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) [Single Version / Mono]” – Temptations
• “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” – Temptations
• “I Want You Back” – Jackson 5
• “Keep On Truckin” – Eddie Kendricks
• “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” – Marvin Gaye
• “Isn’t She Lovely” – Stevie Wonder
• “Twenty Five Miles” – Edwin Starr
• “Bernadette” – Four Tops
• “I’m A Road Runner” – Junior Walker & The All Stars

Thursday, March 13 (313 Day — All Detroit Music)

• “One Nation Under a Groove” – Funkadelic
• “Jump” – Aretha Franklin
• “Baby I Love You” – Aretha Franklin
• “Think Twice” – Detroit Experiment
• “Chains Of Love” – Dirtbombs
• “Livin’ for the City” – Dirtbombs
• “I Wanna Be Your Dog” – The Stooges
• “Put Your Hands up for Detroit” – Matthew Dear 
• “You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else” – Jones Girls
• “Lansana’s Priestess” – Donald Byrd
• “Let The Moon Get Into It” – Soft Location
• “Catamaran” – Bear Vs. Shark
• “Want it (feat. Amp Fiddler & Dames Brown) [Jon’s 6 Mile Edit] [Mixed]” – Jon Dixon
• “God’s Been Good to Me” – The Mighty Walker Brothers
• “Stay Down” – Detroit Cobras

Friday, March 14 

• “The Punch” – Shigeto & Kesswa
• “Mercy (feat. Jacob Lusk)” – Blessed Madonna
• “Love and Hate in a Different Time (Original)” – Gabriels
• “Estrelar” – Marcos Valle
• “Nomalizo (Eddie C Rework)” – Letta Mbulu
• “Taurus” – DJ Holographic
• “JOY (Unspeakable) [feat. Pharrell Williams]” – Voices of Fire
• “Free” – SAULT
• “Little Things” – Lake Trout
• “(I Know) I’m Losing You” – Rod Stewart
• “Radiant Hue” – Shadow Show
• “Sandwiches” – Detroit Grand Pubahs
• “N THE D” – Sheefy McFly
• “Check Stub” – DJ Assault

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.

Really enjoyed the mix today, where genre does not matter and good music does. From throwbacks with Odetta and Tania Maria to brand new stuff from Doechii, Joshua Idehen, Annahstasia, Cymande, Marina Zispin 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 March 18, 2025

• “Hit Or Miss (Live)” – Odetta
• “No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)” – Perfume Genius
• “Could Be Forever” – Joshua Idehen
• “Anxiety” – Doechii
• “Stones Throw” – Greentea Peng
• “Osaka” – Athletic Progression
• “Para Chick” – Tania Maria
• “Sun Khosi” – Ruby Rushton
• “Butterfly” – Jamiroquai
• “Relationships” – HAIM
• “Cranes In The Sky” – Solange
• “Sunday” – Annahstasia
• “Alone Again Or” – Calexico
• “Coltrane” – Cymande
• “Last One Standing” – Monophonics & Kelly Finnigan
• “Everydub (Joey Negro Mix)” – Sunburst Band
• “raat ki rani (Khruangbin Remix)” – Arooj Aftab & Khruangbin
• “Penthouse Samba” – Marina Zispin
• “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice” – Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
• “Swimmers” – Broken Social Scene
• “Are You Tired? (Keep on Singing)” – DARKSIDE
• “Pop Song” – Perfume Genius
• “Another World” – Sam Cohen, Photay & Saundra Williams
• “Côte D’ivoire” – Yoni Mayraz
• “Brazilian Dorian Dream” – Manfredo Fest
• “Watermelon Man” – Herbie Hancock
• “Breezin’” – Gabor Szabo
• “Harvest Moon” – Poolside
• “One More Year” – Tame Impala
• “Company” – Jarami
• “Bully Ball” – Surprise Chef
• “Spread Your Love” – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• “I Think I’m In Love” – Spiritualized

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.

A celebration of St. Patrick’s Day with a heavy dose of Irish bands (both well known and not), including selections from their wonderfully crunchy grunge/punk scene leaders like SPRINTS, NewDad and one of the biggest bands out of Ireland right now Fontaines D.C., plus the old heads like Thin Lizzy, Cranberries, Pogues, Frames and more.

On top of all that, new music from Jordan Rakei, Orions Belte, Knats and Detroit’s own John Beltran. A wonderfully diverse mixtape!

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 March 17, 2025

• “The Seize” – Jordan Rakei
• “Lakeside” – Orions Belte
• “Best For Us” – Lady Wray
• “Dangerous” – Surprise Chef
• “Black Narcissus” – Knats
• “Please Don’t Stop The Rain (Ron Trent Remix)” – ASHRR
• “Belle Isle” – John Beltran
• “Trust the Feeling (feat. Joy Spheres Rees)” – Hidden Spheres, Allysha Joy & Finn Rees
• “Wish I Didn’t Miss You (Dragutesku Edit)” – Angie Stone
• “Empire (feat. John Carroll Kirby)” – Eddie Chacon
• “Royalty” – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
• “Soul” – James Alexander Bright
• “Black Hole Sun” – bigboihums
• “Just a Little Lovin’ (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix) (feat. The Koreatown Oddity)” – Mocky & Peanut Butter Wolf
• “Because I’m Me” – The Avalanches
• “I Heard It Through the Grapevine (The Randy Watson Experience Sympathy For The Grapes Mix)” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
• “The Middle (feat. Allysha Joy) [Outro]” – Girls of the Internet
• “Back 2 Me (feat. Sadie Walker)” – Girls of the Internet
• “Why Must It Be You” – Tall Black Guy
• “Joy And Pain” – Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
• “Maiden Voyage” – Herbie Hancock
• “Everybody Loves the Sunshine (feat. José James)” – Takuya Kuroda
• “Showdown” – Thin Lizzy
• “It’s Amazing To Be Young” – Fontaines D.C.
• “Linger (Iain Cook Remix)” – Cranberries
• “Dirty Old Town” – Pogues
• “New Drink For The Old Drunk” – Crooked Fingers
• “Favourite” – Fontaines D.C.
• “Let Go” – NewDad
• “Heavy” – SPRINTS
• “Happy” – Frames
• “Drinkin’ on a Tuesday” – Sarah Mary Chadwick
• “Lived In Bars” – Cat Power
• “Cowboy Song” – Thin Lizzy

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.

New music from Detroit’s own Allen Dennard, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (in town on May 5 @ St. Andrew’s Hall), Mieke Miami, Girls Of The Internet, plus a Miles Davis / Theolonious Monk anniversary and a conversation with Detroit Symphony Orchestra president Erik Ronmark about their latest recording released via Third Man Records ahead of its release next week.

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 March 4, 2025

• “You Don’t Want Me” – Wesley Bright & the Honeytones
• “Believe” – Benjamin Booker
• “Beast of Burden” – Rolling Stones
• “Shoegaze” – Alabama Shakes
• “All The Time” – Bahamas
• “Woman To Woman” – Joe Cocker
• “Sage Motel” – Monophonics, Kelly Finnigan
• “Last One Standing” – Monophonics, Kelly Finnigan
• “400 Years” – Reginald Omas Mamode IV
• “UMI Says” – Mos Def
• “Didn’t I (Dave Allison Rework)” – Darondo
• “Own Me (feat. Haile Supreme)” – Nightmares On Wax
• “Learning To Remember” – Marcus Elliott
• “Red Ashes” – Allen Dennard
• “Trouble” – Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
• “Muzzle of Bees (Live In Chicago, May 2005)” – Wilco
• “Pink Moon” – Nick Drake
• “I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face” – Arthur Russell
• “Broken Finger Blues” – Richard Swift
• “Like A Ship” – Pastor T.L. Barrett and The Youth for Christ Choir
• “I Can Say To You (Toribio Remix)” – Butcher Brown
• “It’s Alright” – Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD
• “Son of a Preacher Man” – Mieke Miami
• “Back 2 Me (feat. Sadie Walker)” – Girls of the Internet
• “It’s Time To Wake Up” – La Femme
• “Femme Fatale” – The Velvet Underground & Nico
• “’Round Midnight (feat. John Coltrane)” – Miles Davis
• “Wish I Didn’t Miss You (Dragutesku Edit)” – Angie Stone

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.

A true genre-defying show today — from punk to jazz to lava lamp psychedelic rock to a stunning solo piano performance from Detroit’s own Michael Malis — and we explore fresh releases from Miso Extra, Everything Is Recorded, Emma-Jean Thackray, Okonski and a special focus on Viagra Boys, who are prepping a new album ahead of their tour stop at Royal Oak Music Theatre this September. On top of all that… a fond farewell to neo-soul icon Angie Stone following a tragic car accident that took her life on Saturday, as well as continuing to grieve the loss of Roberta Flack’s one-of-a-kind voice. Won’t you take a listen?

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 March 3, 2025

• “Projections” – José Junior
• “Tomorrow Never Knows” – Beatles
• “She’s Coming” – The Gaslamp Killer & The Heliocentrics
• “Groove” – Beans
• “Across That Fine Line (Joe Goddard Remix)” – Nation of Language
• “Alone Again Or” – The Damned
• “If I Should Fall Behind” – Bruce Springsteen
• “Highway Anxiety” – William Tyler
• “Swamp Dream #3” – Everything Is Recorded & mary in the junkyard
• “Let Me In (feat. Sky Covington & Andrés)” – Moodymann
• “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” – Angie Stone
• “I Can See the Sun In Late December” – Roberta Flack
• “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (LIVE 1972)” – Roberta Flack
• “Jimtastic Blues” – Greentea Peng
• “Give Back What U Stole From Me (Nightmares On Wax Remix)” – Oscar Jerome
• “It’s Okay (feat. Kassa Overall)” – Emma-Jean Thackray
• “Better Than Her” – JKriv, Saucy Lady & Tortured Soul
• “Messages From The Stars” – RAH Band
• “Certified” – Miso Extra
• “Good Kisses” – Miso Extra & Metronomy
• “LWA IN THE TRAILER PARK” – Benjamin Booker
• “Cactus” – Pixies
• “Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)” – DEVO
• “Slow Learner” – Viagra Boys
• “Man Made Of Meat” – Viagra Boys
• “Troglodyte” – Viagra Boys
• “REBECCA LATIMER FELTON TAKES A BBC” – Benjamin Booker
• “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” – Tom Waits
• “Black Black Ocean” – Crooked Fingers
• “When U Were Mine” – Crooked Fingers
• “October” – Okonski

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.

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A major opera star is under the spotlight at the Detroit Opera this weekend. 

Anthony Roth Costanzo is a decorated counter-tenor singer who will play the lead in “Rinaldo.” The 18th century opera by Handel is getting a contemporary update, told through the lens of a child’s fantasy in a contemporary pediatric ward. 

It follows a trend at Detroit Opera to find new ways to present old operas. The last two shows of “Rinaldo” are on Friday and Sunday. 

WDET’s Ryan Patrick Hooper (host of In The Groove weekdays noon to 3 p.m.) spoke with Costanzo about the story behind “Rinaldo” and the power of opera in 2025. 

Use the media player above to hear the conversation.

More stories from The Metro on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.

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