This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music lots of great new Detroit tunes from Dames Brown, Nick Piunti, The Legal Maters…

Also new music now from some great 80s legends still delivering excellent music!

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 February 21, 2026

HOUR ONE:

• “No More Lies” – Thundercat & Tame Impala
• “Twisted On A Train” – King Tuff
• “Bein’ Alive” – Melissa Etheridge
• “Indigo Park” – Bruce Hornsby
• “Cry” – Thornetta Davis & Big Chief
  
• “American Obituary” – U2
• “Desire” – U2
• “Stay In Your Lane” – Courtney Barnett
• “The Look Of Love” – Isaac Hayes
• “Hair Down” – Samm Henshaw
• “Tragic Tragedy” – Nick Piunti
  
• “Cowboy Dreams” – Boy Golden w/Cat Clyde
  
• “Ramona” – Beck
  

• “Take Me As I Am” – Dames Brown
• “Belle Isle Drive” – Will Sessions w/Amp Fiddler & Dames Brown
• “In The Middle Of It” – Hiss Golden Messenger
• “Stray Dogs” – Hrishikesh Hirway ft. Iron & Wine
• “Baby’s Behind The Wheel” – Frank Allison & The Odd Sox
• “Song of The Future” – U2
• “Marching On” – The Legal Matters
• “Stay High” – Brittany Howard
• “Another Life” – Alabama Shakes
• “Here” – Mumford & Sons ft. Chris Stapleton
• “Letterman” – Michigander
• “Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud” – James Brown
• “I’m Black And I’m Proud – Say It Loud” – James Brown, Carl Cox remix
  

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 set moves through indie, soul, funk, and experimental sounds.

Some highlights include Courtney Barnett and Radiohead, tracks from Gabriel Garzón-Montano, and some soaring soulful moments from Aretha Franklin and Lee Fields & The Expressions. Plus, we’ve got electronic and experimental sounds from Flying Lotus and Madlib, and classic grooves from Paul Simon and Seu Jorge on standby.

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 February 19, 2026 

• “Emorio” – Trinix & Fafá de Belém 

• “Margaretas sång” – Dina Ögon 

• “Gloria” – Those Guys From Athens 

• “Tequila” – Fantastic Virtues 

• “Music De Carnaval” – Magdy Al Hussainy 

• “Ghost a Go Go” – Richard Rome 

• “Argos Farfish” – Sharhabil Ahmed 

• “O Katrina!” – Black Lips 

• “Run Run Run (Radio Edit)” – Kurt Vile 

• “Are You with Me Now?” – Cate Le Bon 

• “She’s Making Friends, I’m Turning Stranger” – Purple Mountains 

• “Impossible Germany” – Wilco 

• “Before You Gotta Go” – Courtney Barnett 

• “I Want More” – Can 

• “Once In A Lifetime” – WITCH 

• “Girlfriend Is Better (EDIT)” – Talking Heads 

• “Give Me the Sunshine (Mini-Tro)” – Leo’s Sunshipp 

• “Jump” – Aretha Franklin 

• “123 Days” – Ruthven 

• “Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes” – Paul Simon 

• “Never Be Another You” – Lee Fields & The Expressions 

• “Tomorrow Never Knows (2024 Remastered Version)” – Junior Parker 

• “Zodiac Shit” – Flying Lotus 

• “Knock Knock (Instrumental)” – Madlib 

• “Frio” – Ambar Lucid 

• “Keep On Running” – Gabriel Garzón-Montano 

• “Someone (feat. Jamila Woods) [Armando Young Remix]” – Gabriel Garzón-Montano 

• “Frío” – Omar Apollo 

• “Carried Away” – H.E.R. 

• “Knocks Me Off My Feet (Cover)” – Olivia Dean 

• “Starman” – Seu Jorge 

• “Apho” – Alfa Mist & Bongeziwe Mabandla 

• “There, There” – Radiohead 

• “New York Is Killing Me” – Gil Scott-Heron 

• “Virgo (King Britt’s Sirius B Remix)” – Meshell Ndegeocello, Brandee Younger & Julius Rodriguez 

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 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!

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 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