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Living for the City
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Today: #190 in Music, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #175 in Music, New Zealand on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · New Zealand
Latest daily rankings: Oct 21. New rankings will appear after the next update.
History builds daily. We started tracking this show on the Music, New Zealand chart recently, so the trend line appears after a second day of data.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 21 | #175 | #175 |
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About the show
Before Detroit gave the world Motown, techno, and hip-hop, it gave the world something harder to name: a feeling that music made in basements and backrooms and borrowed spaces could become the soundtrack to an entire generation's life. That is the story Living for the City is here to tell, and nobody alive is better equipped to tell it than Hanif Abdurraqib.
MacArthur Fellow. New York Times bestselling author. The most gifted writer working at the intersection of music, memory, and American identity today. Hanif brings his singular voice to a new video podcast series that goes inside the streets, venues, and neighborhoods where iconic sounds are born, talking with the artists, DJs, producers, and community architects who built these movements from the ground up.
Season One is Detroit. Eight episodes. The full arc of how one city became the unlikely origin point for some of the most influential music ever made, told by the people who were actually there, and the writer who understands better than anyone what it meant.
This is not a music history lesson. This is a front-row seat to the moments that mattered.
Living for the City premieres May 13th, with new episodes dropping weekly. Subscribe now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
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