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  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

In The Groove: New music from Tortoise, spaced out with Nala Sinephro, Mabe Fratti

Ryan Patrick Hooper March 28, 2025

Man, we got pretty spaced out today with selections from Can, Nala Sinephro, new music from Tortoise, Mabe Fratti and...

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  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

In The Groove: SHY FX, Lady Wray, Hannah Cohen, plus more of your picks from the Queen of Soul

Ryan Patrick Hooper March 26, 2025

I love being able to bring Spiritualized and The Rolling Stones together, plus a bunch of fresh releases from SHY...

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In The Groove: New music from Black Country, New Road, a birthday party for Aretha Franklin + Madvillain anniversary

Ryan Patrick Hooper March 25, 2025

We’re going in on some Aretha Franklin today for her birthday, and really just turning the rest of the week...

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a broken heart lollipop
  • Culture & Music
  • Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: The annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Show — heartbreak, misery and more!

Rob Reinhart February 17, 2025

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, it's the annual Anti-Valentine's Day Show, featuring all the downsides of love...

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Garth Hudson was the last surviving member of The Band.
  • Culture & Music
  • Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Remembering Garth Hudson, founding member of The Band, + more

Rob Reinhart January 27, 2025

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, we'll mark the passing of the last original member of The Band,...

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing at the Culture House in Helsinki, 1967.
  • Culture & Music
  • Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Some Hendrix tracks and covers, car songs + more

Rob Reinhart January 13, 2025

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, new Father John Misty, Waxahatchee, and lots of Hendrix and Hendrix covers....

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(Clockwise from left) "Brown Sugar," D'Angelo; "A.M.," Wilco; an artistic rendering of Lauryn Hill; "Natural Blues," Moby; Bob Seger; "Blood on the Tracks," Bob Dylan; "Head Over Heels" single by Tears for Fears; Jack White.
  • Culture & Music
  • Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Artists and albums celebrating ‘Big-O’ birthdays in 2025

Rob Reinhart January 7, 2025

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, some of the great albums and artists celebrating milestones in 2025! From...

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"I voted" stickers
  • Culture & Music
  • Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Haven’t voted yet? Maybe these songs will motivate you!

Rob Reinhart November 4, 2024

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, it's simply a ton of tunes to capture this crucial moment —...

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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2008 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs during the 85th annual Christmas tree lighting at the New York Stock Exchange in New York.
  • Culture & Music
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • News

Detroit Evening Report: Judge awards real estate to Aretha Franklin’s sons, citing handwritten will

Tia Graham November 28, 2023

A judge overseeing the estate of Aretha Franklin has ruled her property go to the late star’s sons, citing a...

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A pink painting of Aretha Franklin on the side of a building
  • Culture & Music
  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson

Detroit Today: Everything we know about Aretha Franklin’s will controversy

Detroit Today July 13, 2023

Detroit lost an icon when Aretha Franklin passed away in 2018. But while the Queen of Soul historically made headlines...

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Aretha Franklin's granddaughter Grace Franklin, 17, smiles while embracing her family members after the jury decided in favor of a 2014 document during a trial over her grandmother's wills at Oakland County Probate Court in Pontiac, Mich., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
  • Culture & Music
  • News

Jury decides 2014 document found in Aretha Franklin’s couch is a valid will

Associated Press July 11, 2023

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death...

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Aretha Franklin
  • News

Aretha Franklin’s sons battle over handwritten wills 5 years after her death

Associated Press July 6, 2023

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Five years after her death, the final wishes of music superstar Aretha Franklin are still unsettled....

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