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.

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.

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.