Alternate Take host Liz Warner brings her deep listening and lifelong passion for music to In The Groove with her Best of 2025 selections, offering a genre-spanning look at the sounds that shaped the year.

An award-winning audio journalist, DJ, writer and longtime WDET voice known for exploring music and art that shapes Detroit’s culture, Liz highlights the tracks that stood out to her from both established innovators and exciting new voices.

Check out the playlist below for Liz Warner’s top 10 songs of 2025, and listen to the full show above for two weeks after it airs.

• “And Nothing Is Forever (Cosmodelica Electric Eden Remix)” – The Cure
• “cosa rara (feat. David Sylvian)” – Lucrecia Dalt
• “baby” – Gabriel Jacoby
• “Neon Grey Midnight Green” – Neko Case
• “Backwards” – Idle Ray
• “I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time” – Thundercat
• “Gadabout Season” – Brandee Younger
• “Babystar” – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
• “Shapeshift (Radio Edit)” – HAAi

Tune in Friday, Dec. 12 – Friday Dec. 19 on 101.9 WDET FM, stream anytime at wdet.org — and follow along online for daily Best Of playlists and reflections from our music hosts.

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WDET’s Liz Warner appeared on All Songs Considered, New Music Friday discussing the best albums for November 14.

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It’s Friday, it’s mid-November, and the weekly deluge of new albums felt like it was finally starting to slow down as we approach the holidays — until we looked at our Nov. 14 list of LPs, EPs, compilations and reissues and saw triple digits. There’s no offseason in this business.

The most anticipated album out this week is Summer Walker’s Finally Over It … which we did not get to hear in advance, but that didn’t stop us from marveling at the Atlanta R&B star’s promo acumen. With 26 featured guests across 18 tracks, it’s going to challenge Taylor Swift for the top spot on the Billboard 200.

Each week, we welcome a different DJ from the NPR Music network of public radio stations, and this episode’s guest is the esteemed Liz Warner from WDET in Detroit, where she hosts an eclectic program called Alternate Take.

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