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Living for the City

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Should you pitch it?

Guest activity
Often has guests
50% of recent episode titles look like interviews
Episode length
40 min
Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.
Publishing
Weekly+
17 episodes · last 2026-09-02
Language
English
The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.
Where it's from
Not established
No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.
Reach
65
Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.
Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.
Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

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 stree

Recent episodes

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  1. Nasaan on Proof's Legacy, Detroit Rap, and Kicking Down the Door | Living for the City Full Interview
  2. House Shoes on Detroit Radio, J Dilla, and DJ Integrity | Living for the City Full Interview
  3. Brenda Franklin Corbett on Growing Up With Aretha Franklin | Living for the City Full Interview
  4. Mary Cobra on the Detroit Cobras and the Art of the Cover Song | Living for the City Full Interview
  5. LADYMONIX on Why She Left LA and Made Detroit Home | Living for the City Full Interview
  6. Carl Craig on Detroit Techno, the Art of the Alias, and the Future of Electronic Music | Living for the City Full Interview

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