Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jlin’s second album Black Origami at times feels like an hermetic universe built on complex martial rhythms, with an intense ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gary, Ind., electronic producer turns a Chicago footwork party into a global drum-machine circle. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still ...

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 ...

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 on a creative warpath. That statement would be true if the Gary, Indiana artist chose to only release her sophomore album Black Origami this year. That record was universally celebrated upon ...

Last night (2/19), the three-night “Interference AV” festival began at the AMC Empire multiplex in NYC’s Times Square. The free series is presented by Times Square Arts and Clocktower Productions, and ...

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 ...

The last we heard of Jlin on a studio record, she left with one final display of prowess for anyone who would rise to the challenge. The footwork barrage of “Challenge (To Be Continued)—the closer to ...

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 ...