In The Groove: Best of 2025 with Liz Warner

Liz Warner joins In The Groove to highlight the tracks that stood out to her from both established innovators and exciting new voices.

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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.

See the Best of 2025 playlists »

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Authors

  • WDET Staff
  • Liz Warner
    Liz Warner — known to late-night Detroit audiences as Liz Copeland — is an award-winning multimedia journalist specializing in audio. She started in Detroit as a nightly live radio producer and host on WDET in 1995.