Modern Music celebrates 15 years on WDET’s airwaves

For the past 15 years, Modern Music has helped uplift new and emerging artists on WDET’s airwaves, with host Jon Moshier showcasing some of the best music coming out of the independent music scene along with classic underground trailblazers.

Moshier was first hired at WDET as a part-time “music librarian” in 1996, serving as a substitute host for the station’s music programs. The following year, he launched The Jon Moshier Program, a music variety show that aired overnight on Saturday/Sunday mornings, and later, from 9 p.m.-midnight on Saturdays. He was brought on full-time in the early aughts as the station’s music coordinator — and a few years later, as senior music producer — launching the show Live From Studio A, which featured archived live performances from WDET Studios.

The position and show were eliminated in 2005, but he was brought back in January 2010 to host Modern Music, originally airing on Friday nights. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Moshier celebrated the show’s 15-year milestone this past Saturday by looking back at some of his favorite new music discoveries made since the launch of the show — including sounds from LCD Soundsystem, Future Islands, Fontaines D.C., Matthew Dear, Nation of Language and lots more!

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

Modern Music’s 15th Anniversary Show Playlist for Jan. 4, 2025

• “Living in Colour” – Frightened Rabbit
• “Home” – LCD Soundsystem
• “Hours” – Tycho
• “Pixels” – FAWNN
• “Star Machine” – Bob Mould
• “Gone Are the Faces” – Oscillating Fan Club
• “Move Music Kills a Kiss” – Califone
• “Back in the Tall Grass” – Future Islands
• “Lazaretto” – Jack White
• “Let It Happen” – Tame Impala
• “Lazarus” – David Bowie
• “A 1000 Times” – Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam
• “Mitchell St. Marauder” – The Hentchmen
• “Plimsoll Punks” –Alvvays
• “Bad Ones (feat. Tegan and Sara)” – Matthew Dear
• “Lost Without You (feat. Dames Brown)” – Will Sessions & Amp Fiddler
• “Mary Winter” – Swervedriver
• “Wrong Train” – The Psychedelic Furs
• “A Hero’s Death” – Fontaines D.C.
• “Across That Fine Line” – Nation of Language
• “Jeff Goldblum” –Mattiel
• “Chaise Longue” – Wet Leg
• “Gettin’ to the Point” – Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
• “Barley” – Water From Your Eyes
• “Address Unknown” – The High Strung

Listen to Modern Music with host Jon Moshier every Saturday from 4-6 p.m. ET with an encore broadcast Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.