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

Music Is Free Speech

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

I’ve been thinking about the power of music and cultural movements a lot lately, not least because I just interviewed the Oklahoma City alt-pop musician Lincka, whose song “Chinga La Migra” is quickly becoming an anthem for anti-ICE protests, and whose music in general soothes me (in an upbeat, dancey way).
How Lincka Wrote the Three-Year-Old Song That Became the Anthem of Anti-ICE Protests

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

The Oklahoma City musician Lincka wrote “Chinga La Migra,” her gorgeous ballad about immigration, in 2022. In the last week or so, as anti-ICE protests flourished around Los Angeles, the song has become their unofficial soundtrack on big Instagram pages—prominent activists, an HBO star—alongside images of protest signs and selfies.
Buscabulla’s Love (Actually)

2 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

When Raquel Berrios told Luis Alfredo Del Valle, her bandmate in Buscabulla, that she was writing personal songs about the rift in their romance, he initially balked. “Our careers thus far had never really been about our relationship, so it was definitely one of these things where I was like, Man, do we really have to go there? Is it anybody’s business?” says Del Valle.
Um, Jennifer? Takes On the City

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

It’s not a surprise that Elijah Scarpati and Fig Regan want to meet for our interview at Joe Junior, an old-school lunch counter in Manhattan that’s been serving STEAKS & CHOPS • SEAFOOD, as the sign puts it, since at least the 1970s.
Karol G’s Beautiful Tomorrows

1 month ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

I love big pop stars, in part, because of the spectacle. I’ll go to shows in dank warehouses or dusty basements until the day is long, but given the opportunity (read: a ticket that is cheap or free), I will even see massive pop tours by artists whose music I don’t particularly like. I’m like a baby or a bird, simply enamored with big-ass productions and flashing lights.
Borders Are Fake

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

8 hours ago Army control of U.S.-Mexico border buffer zone may funnel migrants to 62-mile stretch of tribal land in Arizona Emma Paterson Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Some Arizona border officials have welcomed President Donald Trump’s order for a military takeover at the … 3 hours ago Burn the flags / Split the check Today: Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, writer, founding editor of Hearing Things, and author of the forthcoming book Vaquera; and Miles Klee, author of the … 2 days ago Weed Manager...
I Walked Around NYC With a Luigi Mangione T-Shirt And This Is How That Went

2 months ago | hellgatenyc.com | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

During the height of Luigi Mangione fever in January, when the interminably online were posting memes with the general sentiment "depose me daddy," I purchased an airbrush-style t-shirt that reads "Free My Mans" alongside a photograph of a shirtless Luigi, from the Radical Resistance Company, a t-shirt line started by the activist Keiajah, who's donating the proceeds to individuals "most impacted by the American Healthcare Industrial Complex: poor and working class people of color." Luigi...
The Good Kind of Y2K Revivalism

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 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.
Rachika Nayar on Disiniblud, Her New Project With Nina Keith

2 months ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

On July 18, Smugglers Way will release Disiniblud, the self-titled collaborative debut from guitarist/producer Rachika Nayar and composer/multi-instrumentalist Nina Keith. Through processed guitar samples, transcendental glitch, twinkly synths and guest vocalists like Julianna Barwick, June McDoom, and Tujiko Noriko, Disiniblud has crafted a world that sounds like hope and love, the kind of record that embraces you in its wall of sound.
Presenting an Extremely Detailed, Color-Coded Score for Sophie’s “Hard”

2 months ago | hearingthings.co | Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

This graphic score for Sophie’s minimalist heart explosion “Hard” came to us via Katie Battistoni, a friend of Hearing Things, musician (as Katy the Kyng), and professor at Manhattan’s New School. Battistoni transcribed the track for a class on avant-garde songwriting, and I was immediately compelled—not just because her score is as beautiful and chaotic as the track, but because it’s so rare to see sheet music for a piece of contemporary electronic pop music.