{"podcast":{"title":"Living for the City","slug":"living-for-the-city-7841880","podcast_index_feed_id":7841880,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/IMP4672743019","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/6b7515e8-427d-11f1-b52d-13d6ecf715d9/image/f530e40772799dd2009def36c97a5891.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Side Stage","episode_count":22,"summary":"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.…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-30T18:17:41.745766+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880"},"episode":{"title":"LADYMONIX on Why She Left LA and Made Detroit Home | Living for the City Full Interview","slug":"ladymonix-on-why-she-left-la-and-made-detroit-home-living-for-the-city-full-interview","published_at":"2026-08-05T15:41:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880/ladymonix-on-why-she-left-la-and-made-detroit-home-living-for-the-city-full-interview","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1468/tracking.swap.fm/track/GShUDppPATUMmMhYllkv/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP6155730243.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1468/tracking.swap.fm/track/GShUDppPATUMmMhYllkv/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP6155730243.mp3","summary":"LADYMONIX is a Detroit DJ who drove across the country from LA in 2016, spent her first year just going out and dancing, and has held a Sunday night residency at Motor City Wine for nine years. This is her full conversation with host Hanif Abdurraqib. In this interview, LADYMONIX talks about why she left LA — the cliques, the cutthroat energy, the $3,500 overhead that made creativity feel impossible — and why Detroit gave her something she didn't even know she was looking for. She talks about how she got the Motor City Wine gig, why she plays five-hour sets every week, and what it means to build a room where people feel free enough to actually dance. She opens up about DJing as healing work rather than power, why she dislikes the word \"fans\" and prefers \"supporters,\" and how Detroit's crowd changed the music she makes because they already know exactly what they like. She also talks about why 90% of her guest bookings are women, why that never needs to be announced, and the lineage of women who came before her in this city — DJ Minx, K-Hand, Stacey Hale — and what it means to keep that door open. This one is about finding the place where your work finally makes sense. CHAPTERS 00:29 - Landing in Detroit: Why She Left LA and What She Found Here 03:45 - The Scene in LA vs the Scene in Detroit 07:08 - Affordability, Anxiety, and What Financial Breathing Room Does for Creativity 09:18 - Nine Years at Motor City Wine: How the Residency Started and How It Held 12:02 - DJing as Healing Work, Not Power 14:20 - Reading a Room on the Fly and What Detroit Crowds Demand 17:19 - Digging Every Day and How Detroit Changed Her Taste 19:22 - The Future of Detroit Techno and Who Is Making It Now 23:40 - Generations on the Dance Floor and What That Means 25:52 - Sharing the Stage and Why…","meta_description":"LADYMONIX is a Detroit DJ who drove across the country from LA in 2016, spent her first year just going out and dancing, and has held a Sunday night resid…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1888,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/living-for-the-city-7841880/episodes/ladymonix-on-why-she-left-la-and-made-detroit-home-living-for-the-city-full-interview/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-for-the-city-7841880/ladymonix-on-why-she-left-la-and-made-detroit-home-living-for-the-city-full-interview.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}