My favorite time of the year — end of year best of music lists!

This is PART FOUR of In The Groove’s Best Of 2024 series. Spotlights on Dummy, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Ezra Collective, Tierra Whack, Joy Orbison, SBTRKT and more.

You can see the playlist and listen back to previous shows below:

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five

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 Dec. 19, 2024

• “To Be Still” – Brittany Howard
• “Everything in its Right Place” – Kamaal Williams
• “Son of a Preacher Man” – Mieke Miami
• “Niceties” – Forest Law
• “Space” – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble & Yasiin Bey
• “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (feat. Yazmin Lacey)” – Ezra Collective & Yazmin Lacey
• “Moon Slide” – Lilblackkids, Georgia Anne Muldrow & Keith Rice
• “SHOWER SONG” – Tierra Whack
• “False Start Dub” – Kings Of High Speed & JKriv
• “Hello? (feat. aden) [Maurice Fulton Remix]” – musclecars
• “flight fm” – Joy Orbison
• “Back On” – SBTRKT
• “David” – Allysha Joy
• “Lo Dudo” – Ëda Diaz
• “Rain Can’t Reach Us (feat. Tony Allen)” – Yannis & The Yaw
• “Nullspace” – Dummy
• “Opaline Bubbletear” – Dummy
• “Blue Dada” – Dummy
• “Dumb Guitar” – Mount Kimbie
• “Ill Times” – GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith
• “Bang (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix)” – Melenas & Peanut Butter Wolf
• “Hot Sun” – Wilco
• “New York, Let’s Do Nothing” – King Hannah
• “Ride around” – Goat Girl
• “Why Are You?” – Natty Reeves
• “All Seeds” – Don Glori
• “Dispose Of Me” – Omar Apollo
• “Never Be Yours” – Kali Uchis
• “For The Time Being” – Erlend Øye & La Comitiva
• “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” – Andrew Bird, Alan Hampton & Ted Poor
• “If You Only Knew (Live from Union Chapel)” – Gabriels
• “Passionfruit (feat. John Carroll Kirby)” – Elkka
• “Parasite (feat. Kindelan)” – Sean Khan & The Modern Jazz & Folk Ensemble
• “Late Autumn (feat. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson)” – Jeff Parker

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.

My favorite time of the year — end of year best of music lists! This is PART THREE of In The Groove’s Best Of 2024 series. Spotlights on Astrid Sonne, Work Money Death, Vince Staples, Schoolboy Q, Crumb and more.

You can see the playlist and listen back to previous shows below:

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five

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 Dec. 18, 2024

• “Moving Forward” – Bryony Jarman-Pinto
• “Lil Birdie” – DJ Harrison
• “Pon Pón” – Khruangbin
• “Bloodline (Marla Kether Remix)” – Samantha Lindo
• “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
• “Gemini” – Angélica Garcia
• “Insecure” – Tom Misch
• “Speak To Me” – Julian Lage
• “Humanity” – LAVA LA RUE
• “Bon Bon” – Fcukers
• “Just Listen” – Mark Guiliana
• “African Skies” – Lars Bartkuhn
• “Dance Steve (feat. Jeff Parker)” – Anna Butterss
• “Three Piece Suit (feat. Azekel)” – Kokoroko
• “Crumb” – John Roseboro & Liana Flores
• “Vento a Favor (Instrumental)” – Sessa
• “Side By Side” – Crumb
• “Crushxd” – Crumb
• “Continuum 5” – Nala Sinephro
• “Continuum 6” –Nala Sinephro
• “Be Reasonable” – Somesurprises
• “Right Back to It (feat. MJ Lenderman)” – Waxahatchee
• “Count The Days (feat. Jenny Lewis)” – Swamp Dogg
• “Fool” – Adrianne Lenker
• “Mum Does the Washing” – Joshua Idehen
• “Sweet Thang (feat. Summer Walker)” – Childish Gambino
• “oHio (feat. Freddie Gibbs)” – Schoolboy Q
• “Clothes Off” – Cousin Kula
• “Étouffée” – Vince Staples

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.

“Best” is entirely subjective, of course! This week, I’m spinning my own personal favorite songs released by local artists in the year 2024! And, even then, these are just SOME of my favorites, including Detroit-based producer/songwriter Vespre, aka Kaylan Waterman (pictured above), along with Ypsilanti’s Fred Thomas, Ann Arbor’s Lily Talmers, and a few from the west side of the state, including Spencer LaJoye and Cal In Red.

I’ve been covering the local music scene for WDET for more than eight years now, and each time December rolls around, I find myself saying the same thing: There’s just so much good music coming out of the state of Michigan, and it only seems to increase, expand, evolve, and astonish me more and more each year!

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

MI Local Playlist for Dec. 17, 2024

• “Oh Me Oh My” – HALA
• “Make It Last” – Double Winter
• “Is It True Love?” – Bluhm
• “Goldwine” – The Lasso & The Go Rounds
• “Boog’s Groove & Leaf Erikson” – Boog’s Groove
• “Things We Want to Know” – Vespre
• “My Love” – Cal In Red
• “Death Drive” – Spencer LaJoye
• “Wiser Man” – Rowan Niemisto
• “The Big Idea” – Lily Talmers
• “Momentary Need” – Bandeau
• “SideXSide” – 800cc
• “Embankment” – Fred Thomas

If you’d like a comprehensive sampling of the local music I’ve listened to in 2024, I have my own playlist on Spotify (Check it below!). Whereas my show — heard on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. — is only one-hour long, this playlist will take you nearly an entire day to get through: enjoy!

My favorite time of the year — end of year best of music lists!

This is part 2 of In The Groove’s Best Of 2024 series. It features highlights on Reyna Tropical, Ibibio Sound Machine and Little Simz, plus listener picks from you, including Remi Wolf, Soft Play, The Cure and Jungle.

You can see the full playlist and listen back to previous shows below:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

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 December 17, 2024

• “Aquí Te Cuido” – Reyna Tropical
• “TURBULÊNCIA” – Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
• “Pull The Rope” – Ibibio Sound Machine
• “To The Dancefloor” – Debby Friday
• “SOS” – Little Simz
• “Far Away” – Little Simz
• “Mood Swings” – Little Simz
• “Find Me (Live)” – Kassa Overall
• “Mort Crim” – Ian Fink
• “Over When It’s Over” – Lucy Rose
• “Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie” – Red Hot Org, Kronos Quartet, Laraaji & Sun Ra
• “Toro” – Remi Wolf *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Motorcycle” – Remi Wolf
• “Musica” – Mildlife
• “Workin’ On It” – Brijean
• “Volume” – Caribou
• “Thrown Around” – James Blake
• “Sundowner” – Fontaines D.C.
• “Everything And Nothing” – Soft Play *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Favourite” – Fontaines D.C.
• “All I Ever Am” – The Cure *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Daylight Song” – Wu Lu
• “Con Altura” – Orquesta Akokán
• “Ya Va Pasar” – Reyna Tropical
• “Back On 74 (Full Crate Remix)” – Jungle
• “Let’s Go Back” – Jungle *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “It’s Alright” – Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD
• “DIPAD33 / W . I . D . F . U” – Saya Gray
• “Ambrosia” – Erick the Architect & Channel Tres
• “Long As The Sun” – Jaiton
• “Closer” – Maria Chiara Argirò
• “Beta Pan” – Lawne
• “comet (feat. Bel Cobain)” – oreglo
• “Levels” – oreglo
• “Fácil” – Empress Of
• “31 Bloom” – Four Tet
• “Dream State” – Kamasi Washington & André 3000

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.

My favorite time of the year — end of year best of music lists!

Now, this is the first time In The Groove has been around to actually do these — what an honor. And it’s not about ranking. It’s just about sharing the stuff that was in heavy rotation on the show or heavy rotation on my playlists (which is the show, so I guess those things are the same thing). And on top of that, I really wanted to hear from you! And you didn’t disappoint at all. Listener picks today from Yard Act, Laura Marling, Being Dead, Kamasi Washington and Glass Beams. Plus, lots of my picks including Wye Oak, English Teacher, Britti, musclecars and more.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

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 Dec. 16, 2024

• “R&B” – English Teacher
• “A Vineyard For The North” – Yard Act
• “We Make Hits” – Yard Act *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Mind’s A Lie” – High Vis
• “Logic of Color (feat. William Brittelle) [Variation]” – Wye Oak, Metropolis Ensemble & Paul Wiancko
• “Patterns” – Laura Marling *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Nothing Compares To You” – Britti
• “Ha Ya! (Eternal Life) [feat. Natalie Greffel]” – musclecars
• “Image” – Magdalena Bay
• “Touch Me (feat. Clara La San) [B Roll Mix]” – Jam City & Aidan
• “My Love” – Metronomy & Nourished by Time
• “Money Shows (feat. Eartheater)” – John Glacier
• “Power To Undo” – Brittany Howard
• “Every Color In Blue” – Brittany Howard
• “Dawn (feat. Esperanza Spalding)” – Nubya Garcia
• “Spinning” – Julia Holter
• “I Forgot to Be Your Lover” – Black Keys
• “On Tonight” – Rosali
• “Freedom” – Jordan Rakei
• “Everything’s Beautiful” – Hiatus Kaiyote
• “Love Heart Cheat Code” – Hiatus Kaiyote
• “Firefighters” – Being Dead *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “A Bit Like James Bond” – The Bug Club
• “Lonsdale Slipons” – The Bug Club
• “Prologue” – Kamasi Washington *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Mahal” – Glass Beams *listener pick for best of 2024*
• “Sunday” – Annahstasia
• “i no u no” – James Tillman
• “Juanita” – Angélica Garcia
• “Hand On Me” – Nourished By Time
• “Rare” – Bullion & Carly Rae Jepsen
• “Dream police” – Mk.gee
• “Don’t Get Me Started” – The Smile
• “A Dream Goes on Forever” – Vegyn & John Glacier
• “Trust (feat. Matt Maltese)” – Vegyn
• “The Mystery of Man” – Zara McFarlane

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.