One more sleep until Ryan Patrick Hooper returns! Adam Fox filling in today, with new music from Snocaps and Otto Benson, a spotlight on Weval who play this weekend at El Club, and a nod to David Bowie’s final master stroke, “Black Star” which turned 10 in January.

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with temporary host Adam Fox playlist for February 5, 2026

• “Nothing Simple” – Shigeto, Tammy Lakkis & Cleveland Thrasher
• “Waterfalls” – Oneohtrix Point Never
• “Perpetual Adoration” – Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore
• “Brand New City” – Snocaps
• “Secret Meeting” – The National
• “Dirty Dream Number Two” – Belle and Sebastian
• “Chips – Chicken – Banana Split” – Jo-Jo and The Fugitives
• “Chicken Payback” – The Bees
• “Roots of Dub” – King Tubby
• “Groovin’” – Willie Mitchell
  “O My Soul (Remastered 2024)” – Big Star
• “Gloria” – Patti Smith
• “Changed for the Better” – Weval
• “MOVING ON” – Weval
• “Let England Shake” – PJ Harvey
• “I Can’t Give Everything Away” – David Bowie
• “Burial Dub” – Sly & Robbie
• “Future Shock” – Herbie Hancock
• “Dream In Blue” – Los Lobos
• “Wicked Game” – Chris Isaak
• “Accidentally Like a Martyr” – Warren Zevon
• “Cortez the Killer” – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
• “Theme” – Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy
• “Delfeayo’s Dilemma (2023 Remaster)” – Wynton Marsalis
• “Lonely Road” – Natalie Bergman
• “Upside Down (feat. Natalie Bergman & Wild Belle)” – Nomo & Shawn Lee
• “Moussolou (Mixed)” – Oumou Sangaré
• “Chifundo” – WITCH
• “Caring Is Creepy” – The Shins
• “Carry the Zero” – Built to Spill
• “Soy Beans” – Otto Benson
• “Revival” – Deerhunter
• “Linear Motion” – Rebecca Goldberg

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.

This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music a couple cuts from a fascinating new album from Kronos Quartet and Mahalia Jackson, featuring her amazing singing and in conversation with Studs Terkel in 1963.

Also, new Detroit tunes from Dames Brown, The Legal Matters, another Nick Piunti preview, the duo Rosetta Pebble and more!

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

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for January 31, 2026

HOUR ONE:

• “Against The Dying Of The Light” – Jose Gonzalez
• “(It Takes All Kinds) To Make A World” – Gail Ann Dorsey
• “The Stars Are Out Tonight” – David Bowie
• “Opening Night” – Arctic Monkeys
• “Hold On” – Mahalia Jackson & The Kronos Quartet
  
• “What Would You Do” – Dames Brown
• “Rendevouz” – Will Sessions + Dames Brown, Amp Fiddler
  
• “I Got You” – Tedeschi Trucks Band
  
• “I Wish You Love” – Frank Sinatra
• “Stay Away” – Charles Bradley
• “Can’t Hold Us” – Sampa The Great
  
• “Handshake Deal” – Nick Piunti
  
• “Get On The Right Thing” – Wings
  

• “Music Always” – AV & The Inner City
• “Perfect Day” – Al Green w/Raye
• “2Sided” – Arlo Parks
• “Sweet Love” – Stephen Sanchez
• “The Message” – The Legal Matters
• “Chicago” – Mavis Staples
  
• “In The Saddle” – Whitney
• “Practice” – Jamila Woods w/Saba
• “Your Old Stand By” – Mary Wells
• “Disco Life” – Say She She
• “Bend In The River” – Rosetta Pebble
• “Hair Down” – Samm Henshaw
• “Shapes & Sizes” – Joan Armatrading & The Kronos Quartet
• “This World Will Make You Think” – Mahalia Jackson & The Kronos Quartet

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org

This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music a new album coming next month from Nick Piunti, Detroit rocker and restaurateur. Plus Lucinda Williams’ new album, a prescient 2014 track from YUSUF/Cat Stevens and more.

Also, we celebrate 50 years of David Bowie’s “Station To Station” album at 50, and 70 years of Verve Records!

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Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for January 24, 2026

HOUR ONE:

• “To Love Somebody” – Al Green
• “Let’s Take Our Time” – Aaron Fraser & Durand Jones & The Indications
• “Ain’t That A Trip” – The James Hunter 6 ft. Van Morrison
• “Dead End – Snail Mail
• “I Am America” – Jeff Daniels & Thornetta Davis
  
• “Manic Monday” – Prince
• “Taste On My Lips” – Ya Tseen (w/Portugal. The Man and Meshell Ndegeocello)
  
• “Pride II” – Meshell Ndegeocello
• “Tanana” – Portugal. The Man
• “WAP” – The Claypool Lennon Delirium (coming to Meadowbrook 5/31)
• “Against The Dying Of The Light” – Jose Gonzalez
• “Get Back” – Samm Henshaw
• “You get the Feeling” – Squeeze
  
• “Hourglass” – Squeeze
  

• “Fall Moon” – St. Paul & The Broken Bones (coming to St. Andrews 4/29)
  
• “Site Unseen” – Courtney Barnett (coming to The Majestic 5/21)
• “Hold Tight” – Rozzi
• “Who’s That” – Brother Wallace
• “Big In Madrid” – Nick Piunti
• “Golden Years” – David Bowie
  
• “Blueberry Hill” – Louie Armstrong
• “Glory” – Dames Brown ft. Waajeed
  
• “I Was Raised In Babylon” – YUSUF/Cat Stevens
• “Freedom Speaks” – Lucinda Williams
• “Let’s Do It” – Ella Fitzgerald
• “Day By Day” – Samara Joy

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org

A whole bunch of new stuff today, including Father John Misty, Penza Penza, Sault and more, plus legendary Detroit DJ House Shoes stops by to close the book on 2025 with his favorite songs of the year.

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 January 9, 2026

• “The Old Law” – Father John Misty
• “Kaboom” – Penza Penza
• “Khayal” – Kazdoura
• “God, Protect Me from My Enemies” – Sault
• “Mountain Top” – Rio Kosta
• “What It Gave Me” – Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda
• “Comin’ Home Baby” – Mel Torme
• “Over” – Loaded Honey
• “Green Juice” – anaiis
• “Contact High” – Mae Powell
• “Walk In The Night (Live)” – Grant Green
• “You Are Mine” – Jay Robinson
• “Turiya and Ramakrishna” – Alice Coltrane
• “Hit My Head All Day” – Dry Cleaning
• “I’m Afraid of Americans” – David Bowie
• “The Ghost of Tom Joad” – Rage Against The Machine
• “Citizen Kane” – HYUKOH
• “Tank!” – SEAT BELTS
• “Compared to What (Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, June 1969)” – Les McCann
• “100 Yard Dash (Nicky D Remix)” – DeRobert & The Half-Truths
• “1969” – Stooges
• “Here’s The Thing” – Fontaines D.C.
• “Troglodyte” – Viagra Boys
• “Dogeared (feat. Kapwani)” – Armand Hammer, The Alchemist, Billy Woods
• “E.B.I.T.D.A.” – Clipse
• “Good Health” – De La Soul
• “L.U.” – Sault
• “Dumb Feeling” – Mei Semones
• “Sasayaku Sakebu” – 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.