Gliding back into the week with everything from the Cramps, Pops Staples, Romare, a listener request for French icon Alain Bashung 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 October 19, 2026

• “Baby I Got News For You” – Kelly Stoltz 
• “Baby Drugs” – Tristen 
• “Nothing To Me” – Minna 
• “Skin Is, My” – Andrew Bird 
• “Pride May Put Me To Rest” – Louise Walker 
• “Speak To Me” – Julian Lage 
• “Fall Again” – Duval Timothy, Lil Silva & Melanie Faye 
• “Madam Reve” – Alain Bashung 
• “Bonnie & Clyde” – Brigette Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg 
• “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 
• “Fire and Brimstone” – Link Wray 
• “grand cru (jazz version)” – aupinard 
• “Little Sunflower” – Dorothy Ashby 
• “Rio e Siempre Rio” – Salvador Trio 
• “Another Country” – Demon Fuzz 
• “Africa” – D’Angelo 
• “I’ll Stay” – Funkadelic 
• “Hand of Doom” – Black Sabbath 
• “Planet Caravan (feat. David Jimenez)” – Brown Sabbath & Brownout 
• “Hotel California (Spanish Mix)” – Gypsy Kings 
• “I Say a Little Prayer” – Aretha Franklin 
• “Heavy”- Momoko Gill 
• “100 Years of Bill and Lil” – Joe Webb 
• “Like Swimwear (part two) [feat. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson]” – Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet 
• “Somewhere Good” – Tara Clerkin Trio 
• “I Believe To My Soul” – Farhad Mehrad 
• “Burnin’ Coal” – Les McCann 
• “Call Me Your Lover” – Mary Afi Usuah 
• “Astral Traveling” – Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes 
• “Not Around Anymore” – Broken Social Scene 

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