In the process of writing introductory profiles over the last five or six years for artists coming to both the Big Ears Festival and Oak Ridge’s Summer Sessions outdoor Americana concerts, I’ve had a ...

Last year, Jlin teamed up with choreographer Wayne McGregor to piece together a show called Autobiography, premiered at the Sadler’s Wells theatre in London. Autobiography Edits took place in Toronto ...

Jlin is set to release a new album through Planet Mu in March. Titled Akoma, the 11-track record is the US producer’s third studio full-length effort and follows on from last year’s Perspective ...

When Jlin released Black Origami in 2017, the Gary, Indiana producer must have known what she had on her hands. Her sophomore album's exhilarating, futuristic and entirely organic approach to ...

Footwork lost its best-known proponent when DJ Rashad died last April. He did more than anyone to push and promote the juttering, rapidfire Chicagoan form of dance music, and along with the likes of ...

Jerilynn Patton makes music as Jlin, in Gary, Indiana. A former steel mill worker, she has roots in footwork, the light-speed dance music from Chicago. Two of footwork’s stalwarts, DJ Rashad and RP ...

I love Third Coast Percussion—I ranked their 2018 release Paddle to the Sea number one on my list of the best Chicago albums of the 2010s—and I’m a big fan of Jlin. So when I heard that TCP had ...

If you’re ever feeling bored with new music, like you’ve heard it all before, don’t give up – just hit play on a Jlin track. The 30-year-old Gary, Indiana, electronic musician is evolving faster than ...

Earlier this year, the world received the unfathomably sad and shocking news that the great experimental pop producer SOPHIE had died in a climbing accident at the age of 34. Today, a posthumous ...

“You’re getting the essence of me. I’m not hiding anything from you or from my audience; I’m just releasing what’s on the inside.” This quote, from a 2015 Pitchfork interview, is typical Jlin. The ...