In The Groove: Donald Byrd’s ‘A New Perspective’ connects to new music from Britti, Cousin Kula & Forest Law

Getting ready for DIIV’s big show at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit this week (I’ll have more of that tomorrow),...

In The Groove: A journey through Japanese jazz, Black Sabbath-meets-house and more

A weird one in all the right ways. Crashing into Monday with so many first spins on In The Groove,...

In The Groove: A musical farewell to Motown legend Duke Fakir of the Four Tops

There was joy throughout the show with new music from Lawne, Metronomy & Nourished by Time, Real Estate, Rosa Brunello...

In The Groove: Jack White secretly dropped a new album, so WDET gave the world premiere

A beautiful moment in public radio with the world premiere of Jack White’s unreleased new album. How do you come...

In The Groove: Concert of Colors highlights with Don Was and Makoomba; new music from Clairo, GUM + more

One of my favorite weekends of the year — Concert of Colors — is coming up this weekend. It’s completely...

In The Groove: Obsessed with Remi Wolf’s ‘Big Ideas,’ plus the Spanish quartet Melenas in heavy rotation

Giving into our obsessions with Melenas and Remi Wolf’s new album, Big Ideas, out now on Island Records. Had to...

In The Groove: Common and Pete Rock go old school on new album, remembering Minnie Riperton + new music discovery

A new music Monday with artists like Ruby Rushton, Divorce, Laura Marling, Andrew Bird, Melenas and a few others making...

In The Groove: Detroit’s finest with new music from Deon Jamar, Shigeto + Kesswa world premiere

What a wonderful celebration of Detroit music today. Almost made me cry in the studio listening and thinking about how...

In The Groove: New music discovery from Sun Byrd, Hello Mary, Bacchae, Phantom Handshakes

Beautiful moments in public radio listening as we go from vintage Brazilian funk courtesy of Azymuth into a Fleet Foxes...

In The Groove: Belle Isle Bangers for 4th of July, plus Tall Black Guy’s wonderful world of edits

For the inaugural In The Groove on 4th of July, I wanted to be in the studio live so I...

In The Groove: Canada Day jams, plus new music from Wilco, Suki Waterhouse, Oliver Night

New week, new music from heavy hitters like Wilco, Suki Waterhouse, Oliver Night with Bel Cobain, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti &...

Best of 2024 (So Far): The WDET Midyear Playlist

2024 has already been a huge year in music for WDET. We added seven new music shows and brought in...