Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

New York

Co-Founder, Writer and Editor at Hearing Things

Hearing Things cofounder/writer/editor. Xicanista. 🇲🇽 VAQUERA forthcoming @PenguinBooks. Flaming Hydra. Hell Gate. From Wyoming. She/her/ella.

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Articles

The Good Kind of Y2K Revivalism

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer. It’s Tax Day, which means many of us are staring down a hefty bill and trying not to freak out about how to pay it.
Throwback Soul, Futuristic Synths

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear each week. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer. We’ve got a quintet of albums this week that couldn’t be more different if we tried.
Five Albums for Spring Rebirth

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Five Albums for Spring Rebirth Whether that means quiet reflection or reemerging from winter with a vengeance Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear each week. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
Warped ’90s Throwbacks, Wildfire Folk Songs

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear each week. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
The End of America Has an EDM Remix

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Over the last few weeks, as I’ve scrolled through my interminable and often distressing Instagram feed, I’ve repeatedly heard a song that both piques my interest and makes me want to crawl into a hole.
A Very Special Live Episode of Waste or Taste!

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Jill Mapes |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green |Jillian Mapes

Talking about music with your friends, trying to make them laugh, and playfully arguing about albums and songs—these are some of the best parts of working at a music website. With our podcast Waste or Taste, we capture that kind of unfiltered banter between longtime critics and friends, and invite you to listen along. The concept is simple: Every episode, three Hearing Things founders each bring a new song to the table and debate whether it’s Waste or Taste.
We’re Throwing a Party and You’re Invited

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Mark your calendars: On March 20—the first day of spring!—we’ll be hosting our first live event: an evening at the Ridgewood, Queens, DIY hub Trans-Pecos, featuring a special performance from Afro-pop auteur Lollise and DJs spinning records all night long. We can’t wait to mix it up with our readers, fellow writers, musicians we love, people who’ve never heard of Hearing Things and tagged along with their coolest and most clued-in friend—whoever ends up stopping by.
Reclaimed City Pop, Deconstructed Club Music, Wintry Hip-Hop

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Five Albums, the newsletter exclusively for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we sort through the endless churn of releases and tell you about the new records you have to hear. This week, we’ve got an electronic album that sent Andy into a Proustian recollection set in the outskirts of a rave, a compilation that gives a new lens on Japanese city pop, an art-pop auteur who seems poised to blow up, and more.
You Lot Are Tripping Balls Over the New 'White Lotus' Theme Song

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

It has come to my attention, via social media and blogs, that a consensus is brewing: The theme for White Lotus Season 3, set in Thailand and tailored to the mood, is already hated and vilified. People are wondering, it seems, where the eerie toy piano and altered ooh-woo-ooohs are. I loved the Season 2 theme as much as anyone—it sounded like a chorus of scary cherubs baring their teeth on a Sunday night at Le Bain—but I am here to say the haters of the Season 3 theme song are tripping balls.
A 100-Year-Old Man's Debut Record

2 months ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear each week. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.