With its thumping soul music, eager salespeople, and flashing lights meant to simulate a dance party, the DJ and electronic music section of the Guitar Center in Merrillville, Indiana, is not exactly ...

Two years ago, JLin released her debut album Dark Energy while working at a steel mill in Gary, Indiana, the same home as the Jackson 5 and Freddie Gibbs. Now in preparation of her Black Origami album ...

Jlin’s second album Black Origami at times feels like an hermetic universe built on complex martial rhythms, with an intense inward focus that seems to seal it off from the world of electronic music ...

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 ...

Footwork is already a genre defined by clattering, stuttering beats that sound like their barely holding it together. All Jlin did was shatter those tenuous bonds, pushing the genre even closer toward ...

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 ...

Jlin exploded onto the scene with 2015's Dark Energy, an album of bold and unclassifiable productions. Her sound was initially linked with Chicago footwork, though Jlin would lean away from signifiers ...

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 ...

Last October, I spoke with Jlin about a new project called Autobiography. Her music, anxiety-charged mutations of footwork, was set to become the soundtrack to a new choreographed work by Wayne ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In contrast to dance music’s pleasure-seeking character, experimental electronic music is oriented around ...

Jerrilynn Patton grew up in Gary, Ind., and after studying engineering and math, she landed a pretty good job at U.S. Steel. "Put it like this: my life was stable," she says. It wasn't until she ...

Jlin’s second album Black Origami at times feels like an hermetic universe built on complex martial rhythms, with an intense inward focus that seems to seal it off from the world of electronic music ...