New music from Yin Yin, Automatic, Dry Cleaning, Soulwax, plus your songs of gratitude and thanks with selections from Massive Attack, Big Star, The Cure and Donald Byrd.

Comedian T. Barb stops by to talk about the music that influenced her throughout her career ahead of her big hometown show at the Detroit House of Comedy this Friday. 

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 November 26, 2025

• “Spirit Adapter” – Yin Yin
• “Mq9” – Automatic
• “Hit My Head All Day” – Dry Cleaning
• “Angles Mortz” – Nightbus
• “Run Free (Nite Version)” – Soulwax
• “Maybe I Got It Wrong” – Ruti
• “Last Forever” – Patchwork Inc. & Wyatt Waddell
• “Nancy From Now On” – Father John Misty
• “Clover” – Billie Marten
• “Guns of Brixton (feat. Camille)” – Nouvelle Vague
• “The Harder They Come” – Jimmy Cliff
• “High Tide or Low Tide (B is for Bob Mix)” – Bob Marley
• “You Got It” – Thandii
• “Free” – Sault
• “La Ceiba” – Antibalas
• “Blue Lines” – Massive Attack
• “Be Thankful For What You’ve Got” – Massive Attack
• “The Lovecats” – The Cure
• “Thank You Friends” – Big Star
• “Can’t Hardly Wait (Cello Version)” – The Replacements
• “Power Of The Moon” – Ezra Furman
• “Rock & Roll” – Velvet Underground
• “Veni Vidi Vici” – The Black Lips
• “Paper Tiger” – Spoon
• “I Love Your Smile (In The Groove with Detroit Comedian T. Barb)” – Shanice
• “#1 Stunna (In The Groove with Detroit Comedian T. Barb)” – Big Tymers
• “Big Pimpin’ (feat. UGK) [Edited] (In The Groove with Detroit Comedian T. Barb)” – Jay-Z
• “Ice Me Out (In The Groove with Detroit Comedian T. Barb)” – Kash Doll
• “5pm” – Otis Junior & Dr. Dundiff
• “The Light” – Jordan Rakei
• “Wind Parade” – Donald Byrd
• “Ainda é Verão” – Alulu Paranhos & Bruno Berle
• “Tenderly” – Luiz Bonfá
• “Dumb Feeling” – Mei Semones

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.

Started off with a pair of fresh selects from Ni Maxine and corto.alto before diving into a bunch of throwback Thursday tracks by Nino Ferrer, John Lee Hooker, Bobbie Gentry, and Nick Drake.

Plus, the bartenders behind BOP OR SWAP at Last Chance Saloon stop by. The idea is simple. You bring a record. They play the full A side. The crowd votes. Is this a BOP (we love it—let’s play the other side!) or a SWAP (it’s terrible—onto the next record!). It’s one of my favorite music-related events in the city, every Thursday starting at 7 p.m. at Last Chance. Tell ‘em In The Groove sent ya—and have your bops ready!

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 November 13, 2025

• “Time” – Ni Maxine
• “APRIL (feat. anaiis)” – corto.alto
• “Uno Punto Uno” – Women In Jazz & Rosa Brunello
• “There, There” – Radiohead
• “Get Dressed” – Jeff Parker
• “Looking For You” – Nino Ferrer
• “Roll Your Daddy Right” – John Lee Hooker
• “Luv N’ Haight” – Sly & the Family Stone
• “Dancin People (Part 1 & 2)” – Stars
• “Jingo (Luke Una’s Dancing in Outer Space Edit)” – Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade & Luke Una
• “Lo Life” – Antibalas
• “Seasons Come, Seasons Go” – Bobbie Gentry
• “One of These Things First” – Nick Drake
• “I Dig Love” – George Harrison
• “Afraid” – Flock of Dimes
• “Another Life” – Alabama Shakes
• “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City (feat. Kameron Whalum)” – Zeshan B\
• “Summertime” – Rosinha De Valença
• “Alemania” – Twin Shadow
• “Works And Days” – Tortoise
• “I’ll Bet You” – Funkadelic
• “Yes We Can” – Lee Dorsey
• “Slow Down” – Loose Ends
• “I Can’t Help It” – Michael Jackson
• “Big Time Sensuality” – Björk
• “Angles Mortz” – Nightbus
• “Судно (Борис Рижий)” – Molchat Doma
• “Vampiro” – French Police
• “Hit My Head All Day” – Dry Cleaning
• “Carry Me Higher (Elite Mix) [10 Inch Version]” – The Blessed Madonna, Joy Anonymous & Danielle Ponder
• “Neverender (Kaytranada Remix)” – Justice, Tame Impala

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.

New music from Georgie Sweet, Nightbus, Cut Copy, Hot Chip, Dry Cleaning and a few of my favorite covers from Fiona Apple, Cat Power, and Buddy Miles.

Plus writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz drops by to chat Motown, Dolly Parton and the New York Dolls ahead of her talk at the Fisher Theatre on Wednesday (tickets available here).

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 21, 2025

• “The Ones We Loved” – Georgie Sweet
• “Angles Mortz” – Nightbus
• “Belong To You” – Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger
• “Bloodlines” – Franc Moody
• “Devotion (Short Boys’ Remix)” – Hot Chip
• “Coltrane (Crooked Man Remix)” – Cymande
• “Spirit Adapter” – Yin Yin
• “Mq9” – Automatic
• “Hit My Head All Day (Edit)” – Dry Cleaning
• “siestas ahí” – Juana Molina
• “Banc de poissons” – Vulfmon & Jacob Jeffries
• “Dewy” – Resavoir & Matt Gold
• “Across The Universe” – Fiona Apple
• “Ask Me Anything” – The Strokes
• “How It Ends” – DeVotchka
• “The Rat” – The Walkmen
• “The Smile” – David Axelrod
• “100 Years of Bill & Lil” – Joe Webb
• “New York” – Cat Power
• “Down By The River” – Buddy Miles
• “The Wind Cries Mary” – Jimi Hendrix
• “Hey Joe” – Jimi Hendrix
• “Who Knows (Live At Filmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary)” – Band of Gypsys / Jimi Hendrix
• “Surfin” – Ernest Ranglin
• “Police & Thieves” – The Clash
• “Nobody Can Live Forever” – Tim Maia
• “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going To Go” – Curtis Mayfield
• “You’ve Been In Love Too Long (Single Version)” – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
• “Come See About Me (Live)” – The Supremes
• “9 to 5” – Dolly Parton
• “Personality Crisis” – New York Dolls
• “Trash” – New York Dolls
• “Marquee Moon” – Television

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.