Kicking off the show with new music from Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda, plus Wednesday, Jeff Tweedy, Circling Sun 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 December 10, 2025

• “What It Gave Me” – Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda
• “Bliss (Part 2)” – Circling Sun
• “Come Together” – Ike & Tina Turner
• “Wah Wah” – George Harrison
• “Mansize Rooster” – Supergrass
• “Somebody Made For Me” – Emit Rhodes
• “Everybody’s Stalking” – Badly Drawn Boy
• “Ballad of Big Nothing” – Elliott Smith
• “Townies” – Wednesday
• “Cross The Breeze” – Sonic Youth
• “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” – Jeff Tweedy
• “Flea” – St. Vincent
• “Once In A Lifetime” – WITCH
• “Rabbit Run (Interpol Remix)” – IDLES
• “The Ghost of Tom Joad” – Rage Against The Machine
• “Times” – Wu-Lu
• “Kneel” – Nilufer Yanya
• “Towers” – Hundred Waters
• “Juna” – Clairo
• “Time” – Ni Maxine
• “O Mistress Mine” – Michael Thurber, Moses Sumney & Twelfth Night Cast
• “This Is Who I Am” – Celeste
• “Summertime” – Rosinha De Valença
• “Love and Happiness” – Monty Alexander
• “Figs And Gorgonzola” – Papooz
• “Gotta Get Up” – Harry Nilsson
• “Aht Uh Mi Hed” – Shuggie Otis
• “Hey” – Nilufer Yanya
• “Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)” – Mayer Hawthorne
• “Go Down The Mountain” – TAMTAM
• “Black Cow” – Steely Dan
• “Eu Sou Mais Eu” – Ana Mazzotti
• “Electric Fish” – Ana Frango Elétrico
• “Mercury Avenue” – Maxim Ludwig & Angel Olsen
• “Heroes” – David Bowie

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 Yukimi of Little Dragon, a selection from Jordan Rakei’s new live album, Madison Cunningham is about to be a superstar and lots 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 November 11, 2025

• “All over Me” – Yukimi & Little Dragon
• “Lost My Love (DJ Amir & Re.Decay Jazz Re.Imagined Remix)” – Kenny Cox
• “White Gloves ii” – Khraungbin
• “Mind’s Eye (Live From The Royal Albert Hall)” – Jordan Rakei
• “Witches” – Alice Phoebe Lou
• “Shut Up Kiss Me” – Angel Olsen
• “The Juice” – Causa Sui
• “Diving Woman” – Japanese Breakfast
• “Sin Dones” – Juana Molina
• “Golden Gate (On And On)” – Madison Cunningham
• “Who” – David Byrne & St. Vincent
• “Motorway” – Goat Girl
• “Sad Cowboy” – Goat Girl
• “New York, Let’s Do Nothing” – King Hannah
• “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab (Daniel Avery Remix)” – English Teacher & Daniel Avery
• “Radio Free Europe (Jacknife Lee Remix / 2025)” – R.E.M.
• “One Of The Greats” – Florence + the Machine
• “Elegantly Wasted (feat. Leon Bridges)” – Hermanos Gutiérrez
• “The Revolution Will Not Be Telefonin’” – Tonico 70
• “Groove” – Beans
• “Magica” – El Michels Affair & Rogê
• “Pinball Number Count (feat. Dames Brown & Nicholas Payton)” – Brandon Williams
• “I Can Say To You (Toribio Remix)” – Butcher Brown
• “Brian” – Alfa Mist
• “Dog It” – Digable Planets
• “SPOTTIEOTTIEDOPALISCIOUS” – Kassa Overall
• “Nothing Without You” – Uma
• “Girl Like Me (Kaytranada Remix)” – PinkPantheress
• “Maybe I Got It Wrong” – Ruti
• “Planet Caravan (feat. David Jimenez)” – Brownout & Brown Sabbath
• “A Melhor Saída” – Dora Morelenbaum
• “Sorry Sorry (Francois K Remix)” – Femi Kuti
• “Coltrane (Crooked Man Remix)” – Cymande
• “We Live in Brooklyn, Baby” – Roy Ayers Ubiquity

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.”