The first day of April brings new sounds to this playlist, moving from DJ Koze to Arlo Parks and Kassa Overall. It also includes Courtney Barnett, Broken Social Scene, and Neko Case, alongside Liz Cooper and Butcher Brown. 

There are also cuts from Stereolab, Digable Planets, and Antibalas, plus tracks from Haley Heynderickx, Widowspeak, and Mk.gee. 

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, 2026 

• “Better Than Ever” – Liz Cooper 

• “Plasty” – LL Burns 

• “Taka” – Pino Palladino & Blake Mills 

• “Step Lightly” – Shabaka 

• “No Others” – Momoko Gill 

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

• “National Song (Live at Ekko, 2021)” – Nana Adjoa 

• “You Wanna Dance Or What? (feat. Tommy McGee)” – Joshua Idehen 

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

• “Heaven” – Arlo Parks 

• “Flashes in the Afternoon” – Stereolab 

• “Dog It” – Digable Planets 

• “SPOTTIEOTTIEDOPALISCIOUS” – Kassa Overall 

• “Aruna” – DJ Koze 

• “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” – Daryl Hall & John Oates 

• “Kenya” – Os Ipanemas 

• “Monotropa” – MRKT 

• “’Babystar (Momoko Gill Remix)” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill 

• “HOURS:AFTER” – Butcher Brown 

• “BIG POPPA” – Kassa Overall 

• “La Ceiba” – Antibalas 

• “In a Dream” – Misha Panfilov Sound Combo 

• “One Thing At A Time” – Courtney Barnett 

• “If You Change” – Widowspeak 

• “Problem with It” – Plains 

• “That Teenage Feeling” – Neko Case 

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

• “Cowboying” – Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover 

• “I Want” – Mk.gee 

• “LONG TIME NO SPEAK” – ZENA 

• “Love Is Still The Answer (Prince Fatty Rockers Dub)” – SOOTHSAYERS 

• “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” – Joan As Police Woman 

• “Prisoner of Love” – Gabrielle Cavassa 

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

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 episode of Visions, I share my best releases of 2025, featuring new music from Blue Note’s Artemis, Brandon Woody and and Out Of/Into; Nonesuch Records’ Cecile McLorin Salvant and Mary Halvorson; and International Anthem’s Makaya McCraven and SML. I also play music from here in Detroit by Louis Jones III and Russ Macklem.

I play a couple older tracks that were released in 2025. I was really excited to see Strata-East team up with Mack Avenue to digitally release the Strata-East catalog this year. From their vast catalog, I played Charles Tolliver.

I was also super excited when I saw news of a never-before released live recording from bassist Charlie Haden coming out in the fall of this year.

I’ve got a lot more music in this playlist, too! I had a ton of fun putting this playlist together, so I hope you have as much—if not more—fun listening to it.

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 Dec. 22, 2025

• “FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE” – Kassa Overall
• “I Will Persevere” – Russ Macklem*
• “Imafan” – Makaya McCraven
• “Unconditional Love” – Milena Casado
• “BBL” – Brandee Younger
• “No. 2” – Nicole Glover
• “Spanning (Live)” – Charles Tolliver
• “Ornithology (Live)” – Charlie Haden
• “Go For Broke (feat. Joel Ross, Paul Cornish, Harish Raghavan & Kendrick Scott)” – Gregory Groover Jr.
• “Guéreh” – Noura Mint Seymali
• “Taking out the Trash” – SML
• “Motions” – Louis Jones III*
• “Eureka” – Cecile McLorin Salvant
• “Carved From” – Mary Halvorson
• “Footprints” – Artemis
• “Wisdom; Terrace on St. Paul St.” – Brandon Woody
• “Feed the Fire (feat. esperanza spalding & Karriem Riggins*) [Bonus Track]” – Nicholas Payton
• “Familiar Route (feat. Gerald Clayton, Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Kendrick Scott & Matt Brewer)” – Out Of/Into

*indicates Detroit artists