Cities to Love

Bah, Humbug! No, that's too strong, 'cause it's the perfect time of year for a special episode of Cities to Love. Hayden & Taylor unwrap holiday favorites and anti-Christmas songs, along the way discovering mirth, melancholy, and the ultimate fate of Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home. Couldn't miss this one this year! Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlis...

It’s the season 1 finale and your hosts welcome their first guest: New York writer Elise Soutar, who guides them through four thronging boroughs of music (sorry, Staten Island; maybe next time). Grab a bacon-egg-and-cheese from your neighborhood bodega and start spreading the news. Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGlFzSo7w4qcYzWeTV?si=db37db...

Taylor and Hayden come across gremlins, lochs, and TikTok fads on their quest to discover Glasgow weather and whether Glasgow should be the UK’s official second city. Spoiler alert: it totally should. If the stars had a podcast, it would sound like this.  Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGlFzSo7w4qcYzWeTV?si=db37db2c8a6f497c YouTube: https:/...

In episode 8, Cities to Love heads down under, where the water drains clockwise, the spiders are plate-sized, and the wizards and lizards live in rock and roll harmony. Save yourself the 24-hour flight to Melbourne as Hayden and Taylor bring Australia’s coolest music city [citation pending] all the way to your favorite podcast listening service.  Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify: ...

Taylor and Hayden’s second Canadian destination is the stunning city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada’s most ‘American’ city? Your hosts find out as they survey some of that mossy northwestern twee-punk; an album comprised entirely of field recordings; and, yes, Japandroids—duh, what do you take them for? Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGl...

Grab your letterman jacket and book-stuffed tote, because your hosts are heading back to school—to the birthplace of America’s college rock movement. Join Hayden and Taylor as they pore over the underrated jangle gems, hard-hitting hip-hop, and tape-recorder experimentalism that line Athens’s history books. Nana Grizol live at Go Bar 30th December 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uInGtFvcGUQ...

Taylor and Hayden have their work cut out for them as they arrive in the Big Smoke, their most populous city yet. Bouncing around town—from the Windmill in Brixton to the Roxy, from the King’s Road to a mysterious desert island—they find six albums that start to scratch the surface of this formidable capital. Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGlFz...

Hayden and Taylor assassin down the avenues of the Windy City in episode 4, which features the podcast’s first hip-hop album (what took them so long?) and more than one onerous album title. Grab a hot dog, dye your bath water green, and allow Cities to Love to bring the Illinoise. Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGlFzSo7w4qcYzWeTV?si=db37db2c8a6f...

Hometowns out of the way, Taylor and Hayden are on neutral ground—in the Great White North’s largest metropolis, the birthplace of Neil Young, the friendliest place on Earth (fact-check pending). It’s Toronto, Canada! This episode is a chilly one; you might want a sweater to hand. Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGlFzSo7w4qcYzWeTV?si=db37db2c8a6f...

Your hosts nip across the pond to Hayden’s hometown of Brighton, on the south coast of England. This seaside resort turned nonconformist haven has wrought some of the UK’s most biting punk and entrancing post-rock. Hayden and Taylor go for a dip and find out what makes Brightonians tick.  Cities to Love Playlist:  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sgCaGlFzSo7w4qcYzWeTV?si...

The inaugural episode of the Cities to Love Podcast unfolds in Washington, D.C., whose marble monuments and suited lawmakers belie its scene-shattering sounds. This is the ground zero of (real) emo, the epicenter of hardcore punk, the birthplace of go-go—and of co-host Taylor Ruckle! D.C.’s widespread influence on alternative music would be impossible to boil down into 60 minutes. Instead, Taylor...

Welcome to Cities to Love: a new podcast in which music writers Taylor Ruckle and Hayden Merrick share some of their favorite albums from their favorite cities! Background music: "Gotta Juice!" by Ultimate Overshare Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.