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Liz Warner
@lizzzwarner.bsky.social
📻 A face for television, a soul for radio
🎧 Alternate Take Thursday nights 8-10 and on demand on WDET.org
🪩 Archives on dublab
🛸 codename: liz copeland
🕸️ lizwarnerprojects.com
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Tonight on Alternate Take, @lizzzwarner.bsky.social shares new music from Westerman, Thundercat, Automatic and Peel Dream Magazine. Plus, we’ll hear archived cuts from Robert Wyatt, Love and more. Listen live at 8 PM on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
October 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Tonight on The Boulevard, we celebrate reaching our fundraiser goal here at WDET. You stepped up for us. Now let us step up for you. Waajeed’s spinning funk, Techno, house and beyond starting at 8 PM ET on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + in the WDET app 🛸🎶
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Do you like to party? Do you like to support public radio? Now you can do both! Tonight, anyone who donates to WDET during Alternate Take with @lizzzwarner.bsky.social will be automatically entered to win a Resident Pass to UFO Bar! Enter now at wdet.org/give and listen live at 101.9FM + our app 🎶
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We’re going in LIVE on a Saturday night with Alternate Take fundraising on @wdet.bsky.social. We have TICKETS for Decks on Deck with me and Waajeed Sunday 9/28. Get on board, 10-midnight tonight 🚢
September 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Tonight on Alternate Take with @lizzzwarner.bsky.social, one lucky winner will win a $100 shopping spree at Ginkgo Records! Enter between 8–10 PM ET at wdet.org/give, and listen live on 101.9 FM or in the WDET app 🎶
September 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I’m in two unions. Happy Labor Day! 💪
September 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I thought this survey was closing two weeks ago and I’m happy to say I WAS WRONG. Have at it. Steer that ship 🏴‍☠️
Have you taken our 2025 listener survey yet? It’s super simple, completely anonymous, and helps us do more of what you like (and less of what you don’t). Share your thoughts now at wdet.org/survey ⭐️
August 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Tonight on Alternate Take with @lizzzwarner.bsky.social, tune in for a tour through Detroit Jazz Festivals past and present. Hear from Miles Davis, Regina Carter, Yusef Lateef, Tony Allen, Sun Ra, Flora Purim and more. Listen live from 8–10 PM on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
August 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is me with the amazing @jkrautner.bsky.social. I love his new record. We talk all about it on this week’s Alternate Take. You can hear it again tonight 10-12 on @wdet.bsky.social 101.9 and WDET.org. You can also hear it in the archives if you can’t find a transistor radio or Internet tonight.
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Today is the last day to let @wdet.bsky.social know what you love. It takes five minutes. WDET.org/survey
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Tonight on Alternate Take, it’s all alternate takes, all show long. @lizzzwarner.bsky.social shares little-known versions of well-known songs from Fleet Foxes, Phil Ranelin, Studio, Miles Davis and more. Listen live at 8 PM on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
August 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’ll be having a conversation with Jeff about his work on the opening night of his residency at Spot Lite on Oct. 8. Reserve your spot at Paxahau.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
What’s the difference between the original version of a song we know and love - and the alternate take? This week’s edition of the show is made up entirely of alternate takes.

Alternate Take Thursday night from 8-10, Saturday night from 10-midnight on @wdet.bsky.social, 101.9 and at WDET.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
One more time sitting in for Visions tonight. Join me on @wdet.bsky.social at 8. 101.9 and WDET.org 🔮✨
Tonight on Visions, @lizzzwarner.bsky.social shares music from this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival Artist In Residence, Jason Moran. Plus, experimental fusion from guitarist Jeff Parker and explosive rhythms from drummer Cindy Blackman. Listen live at 8PM on 101.9FM, wdet.org/listen-live + our app 🎶
August 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happening right now until 10 Eastern on WDET.org
Tonight on Alternate Take, @lizzzwarner.bsky.social shares new music from Asheville singer-songwriter Indigo De Souza, a reissue from Japanese ambient master Susumu Yokota and more. Listen live from 8–10 p.m. on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
August 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Heatmiser
Indigo De Souza
Protomartyr
Deep Sea Diver

Alternate Take
@wdet.bsky.social
Tonight 8-10 pm Eastern
101.9 in Detroit and WDET.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’m the co-host on this week’s New Music Friday podcast put together by my new super cool friends at NPR Music. Hiiii @spotieotis.bsky.social. Thanks for throwing some love to Alternate Take and the amazing @wdet.bsky.social t-shirts. Maybe we can do another run soon! 🏴‍☠️
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Emily Hines introduces herself. The Armed rage against the machine. Mal Devisa makes a triumphant return. Read our list of the best albums out this week.
The best new albums out Aug. 1
Emily Hines introduces herself. The Armed rage against the machine. Mal Devisa makes a triumphant return. Read our list of the best albums out this week.
n.pr
August 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Summer in Ann Arbor, Mich., means thousands of people hunting for hidden codes around the city and reading books to earn points. It's part of a popular game organized by the public library.
How a public library's summer game took over a Michigan city
Summer in Ann Arbor, Mich., means thousands of people hunting for hidden codes around the city and reading books to earn points. It's part of a popular game organized by the public library.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Tonight on Visions, guest host @lizzzwarner.bsky.social shares music from Detroit organist Lyman Woodard, keyboardist Connie Han, and Tomorrow Comes The Harvest, an improvisational group co-founded by the legendary Jeff Mills. Listen live at 8 PM on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Was fun hearing @lizzzwarner.bsky.social rep @wdet.bsky.social! And she nailed the best track of the week part, MVE III by Caimin Gilmore is at worst exceptional. An obvious #Contender @robinpr.bsky.social.
August 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Tonight on Visions, guest host @lizzzwarner.bsky.social shares more music from artists performing at this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival. Tune in to hear Omar Sosa, Marion Hayden, Ron Miles and more. Listen live from 8–10 PM on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
July 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Tonight on Alternate Take, @lizzzwarner.bsky.social will share new music from Heatmiser, pop experimentalist Quadeca and Detroit’s punk outfit The Armed. Plus, previewing bands who are touring through Detroit. Listen live at 8 PM on 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live + the WDET app 🎶
July 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Concert season has begun! Catch a preview of live acts visiting Detroit tonight on Alternate Take. 8-10 on @wdet.bsky.social 101.9 and WDET.org.
June 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Happy Birthday to the great Ron Carter who is 88 years old today! Here's the legendary bassist photographed by Francis Wolff on June 25, 1962 at Van Gelder Studio during the session for Dexter Gordon's "Landslide."
May 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Detroit’s seminal punk band Death features prominently.
Raeghan Buchanan was interviewed recently in the PBS News Hour segment "How Black Musicians Have influenced Punk Music" in the company of artists from the iconic "Death", "Pure Hell", "Rough Francis", and "Special Interest"
How Black musicians have influenced punk music
Punk music is known for its raw, aggressive sound, edgy fashion and mosh pits. It’s also known for being predominantly white, but that's changed a lot in rec...
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May 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM