A gathering place for the creatively inclined.
CUERATED is a podcast rooted in music and tuned to culture.
It lives in the space where sound, style, identity, and storytelling intersect — where creative work becomes personal, and personal expression becomes cultural signal.
This is not a show chasing trends or feeding the algorithm. CUERATED exists in response to the moment we’re in: oversaturated, accelerated, endlessly optimized. It slows things down. It listens longer. It pays attention.
the world it lives in
CUERATED is part of a broader cultural conversation on the importance of creativity — one that values depth over virality, discernment over reach, and intention over volume.
It’s shaped by global creative communities, by people building things slowly and on purpose, by voices that don’t need to shout to be heard.
This is culture as something lived, not broadcast.
the frequency
Each episode is a conversation — not an interview — shaped by curiosity, taste, and lived experience.
The starting point is often music, but the conversations move fluidly through memory, fashion, process, community, ambition, resistance, and meaning. What artists make. Why they make it. How culture carries those choices forward.
CUERATED isn’t interested in summaries or soundbites. It’s interested in the connective tissue — the moments where creativity turns into identity, and identity turns into something shared.
the feeling
Listening to CUERATED feels unhurried and a little unhinged?
It feels like sitting with someone whose perspective you trust. Like being let into a thought before it’s fully formed. Like culture experienced up close, not flattened for scale. most importantly, it feels real.
Episodes are meant to linger — not just while you’re listening, but after. Ideas resurface. References click later. Meaning accumulates over time.
CUERATED isn’t for everyone.
It doesn’t try to be.
But if you’re drawn to conversations that move at a different pace — that treat music, fashion, creativity, and culture as something felt, remembered, and carried forward — you’re already on the right frequency.
Hosted by Carlos Esqueda.
New episodes are available on all major streaming platforms.
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