Best of 2024: The WDET Playlist
WDET’s music hosts share their top tracks from 2024, featuring Fontaines D.C., The Routes, Tammy Lakkis and more.
To say 2024 was a big year for music at WDET would be an understatement. We broadcasted an exclusive world premiere of Jack White’s new album, we added seven new music shows to our lineup and we increased our music programming from 32 hours per week to 79 — meaning we’ve played over 189,840 minutes of music since last year at this time.
We hosted live performances from local artists like Kevin Reynolds, Shadow Show (who are featured in Mike Latulippe’s list), Strange Heart, Infinite River (who are featured in Liz Warner’s list), Frontier Ruckus, Kasan Belgrave and Winestoned Cowboys; global groups like Mokoomba and Ghost-Note; and even the legendary Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
With so much amazing music to choose from, our award-winning hosts had a hard time narrowing down their lists — Ryan Patrick Hooper even played 15 hours worth of his favorites on In The Groove. But in the end, 40 tracks rose above the rest.
These are WDET’s top tracks of 2024.
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- Ann Delisi, Ann Delisi’s Essential Music
- Jeff Milo, MI Local
- Jon Moshier, Modern Music
- Liz Warner, Alternate Take
- Mike Latulippe, The Detroit Move
- Rob Reinhart, Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music
- Ryan Patrick Hooper, In The Groove
- Shigeto, The New Music Show
Ann Delisi, Ann Delisi’s Essential Music
- “Get Down” – Masha Marjieh
- “The Rest of Me” – Michael Kiwanuka
- “Brown Fool Eyes” – Hataalii
- “Make It Happen” – Wonder 45
- “Für Elise – Batiste” – Jon Batiste
Jeff Milo, MI Local
To hear all of Jeff’s picks from the year, check out his 11-hour-long Spotify playlist.
- “Is It True Love?” – Bluhm
- “Big Boy” – Katy Needs a Life
- “Meet Me On The Internet” – Summer Like the Season
- “things we want to know” – Vespre
- “The Big Idea” – Lily Talmers
Jon Moshier, Modern Music
- “Big Wheel” – Shannon & The Clams
- “Hours” – Fred Thomas
- “Transmission” – The Routes
- “Soonish…” – Dummy
- “Big Tuna” – variety
Liz Warner, Alternate Take
- “Journey In Satchidananda (feat. Pharoah Sanders)” – Alice Coltrane
- “Blessed Unrest” – Infinite River
- “Life Is” – Jessica Pratt
- “Nothing Simple (feat. Tammy Lakkis & Cleveland Thrasher)” – Shigeto
- “Good Life – Chantty Natural Remix (feat. Groove Terminator & Chantty Natural)” – Soweto Gospel Choir
Mike Latulippe, The Detroit Move
- “Do Me Good” – The Mocks
- “Missionary” – Jack White
- “Transmission” – The Routes
- “Ours Forever” – The Jackets
- “Mystic Spiral” – Shadow Show
Rob Reinhart, Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music
- “Losing You (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble & Yazz Ahmed)” – Everything Is Recorded
- “Above Water” – Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men
- “Like I Say (I runaway)” – Nilüfer Yanya
- “Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)” – The Decemberists
- “Same Risk” – Madi Diaz
Ryan Patrick Hooper, In The Groove
To hear all of Ryan’s picks from the year, check out “In The Groove: The best music released in 2024” parts 1–5.
- “Mum Does the Washing” – Joshua Idehen
- “Favourite” – Fontaines D.C.
- “R&B” – English Teacher
- “Mind’s a Lie” – High Vis
- “Count The Days (feat. Jenny Lewis)” – Swamp Dogg
Shigeto, The New Music Show
- “When It Fall” – SALĀKASTAR
- “Beaucoup de Drogue” – Shaii David
- “Reminiscin’ (feat. Dames Brown) [Re-Press]” – Will Sessions & Amp Fiddler
- “To Mitooni (Passed Out on a Persian Rug Mix)” – Salar Ansari & Shahram Shabpareh
- “Subdued (Tammy Lakkis Mix)” – Sara Marie Barron & Tammy Lakkis
