Cracking open a couple of musical time capsules by throwing it back to the releases of Stevie Wonder’s magnum opus “Songs in the Key of Life” as well as a groundbreaking Temptations single.

We also go back 27 years ago to 1998 when A Tribe Called Quest and OutKast both dropped landmark albums on the same day.

Of course, there’s new stuff, too, from Nightbus, Jeff Tweedy, Big Thief, Tortoise 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 September 29, 2025

• “Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Single Version)” – Temptations
• “Psychedelic Reggae (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics) [with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics]” – Winston Wright
• “Let It Be (with The Dixie Flyers)” – Aretha Franklin
• “Happy With You” – Big Thief
• “KC Rain (No Wonder)” – Jeff Tweedy
• “Banc de poissons” – Vulfmon & Jacob Jeffries
• “Animaru” – Mei Semones
• “Gimme Some More” – Labi Siffre
• “SHELL ( OF A MAN )” – Saya Gray
• “Love Takes Miles” – Cameron Winter
• “Layered Presence” – Tortoise
• “The Field (feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar)” – Blood Orange
• “Will Anybody Ever Love Me?” – Sufjan Stevens
• “A Deeper Life” – Chaos In The CBD & Isaac Aesili
• “Love’s In Need of Love Today” – Stevie Wonder
• “Village Ghetto Land” – Stevie Wonder
• “Silver” – Say She She
• “Riverside” – Oracle Sisters
• “African Skies” – Lars Bartkuhn
• “I Did It For You” – Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
• “Chasing The Drum” – Yussef Dayes
• “Rust (feat. Tom Misch)” – Yussef Dayes
• “Ámame” – Bardo
• “Save Me” – Emma-Jean Thackray
• “See-Line Woman” – Danielle Ponder & Bryce Dessner
• “My Moon My Man” – Feist
• “Africa” – Bill Laurance & Michael League
• “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” – Andrew Bird, Alan Hampton & Ted Poor
• “Garden” – Maria Somerville
• “To Be A Rose” – Jenny Hval
• “Angles Mortz” – Nightbus
• “The Middle (Outro)” – Girls of the Internet & Allysha Joy
• “Back 2 Me (feat. Sadie Walker)” – Girls of the Internet
• “Find A Way” – A Tribe Called Quest
• “Rosa Parks” – OutKast

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 In The Groove, some fresh selects and first spins from Wet Leg, Stereolab, The Circling Sun, Patchwork Inc., Rita Moran, Big Thief, Unknown Mortal Orchestra 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 July 14, 2025

• “Canopy” – Resavoir & Matt Gold
• “Cannock Chase” – Labi Siffre
• “Seu João” – Gabriel da Rosa
• “Me Gustas Tú” – Manu Chao
• “Primos” – Adrian Quesada & Hermanos Gutiérrez
• “Don’t Call It Love (12″ Version)” – Zero 7
• “Green Garden (1/f Version)” – Laura Mvula
• “Disparate Youth” – Santigold
• “Y Control” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• “Wolf Like Me” – TV on the Radio
• “Pokemon” – Wet Leg
• “Summer Girl (Amber Mark Remix)” – HAIM
• “Give It To Me Baby” – Jarina De Marco
• “Melodie Is a Wound” – Stereolab
• “Moon Dance” – Bitchin Bajas
• “Constellation” – The Circling Sun
• “African Skies” – Lars Bartkuhn
• “Brother Where Are You (Matthew Herbert Remix)” – Oscar Brown, Jr. & Matthew Herbert
• “Babystar” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
• “Last Forever” – Patchwork Inc. & Wyatt Waddell
• “Temporary” – Ria Moran
• “Don’t Start Now (Kaytranada Remix)” – Dua Lipa
• “Highway” – Lewis OfMan & Empress Of
• “Tokyo Midnight” – Sababa 5 & Yurika Hanashima
• “Siesta Freestyle (Frisco version)” – Lewis OfMan & Alicia te quiero
• “Incomprehensible” – Big Thief
• “DEATH COMES FROM THE SKY” – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• “Lush” – Four Tet
• “Latitude” – Coral Grief
• “Life Signs” – Water From Your Eyes
• “Kneel” – Nilufer Yanya
• “Virginia Tech” – Panda Bear
• “Cherry Sunshine” – Somesurprises

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.