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 ...

If you're at all concerned with artificial intelligence eradicating or otherwise supplanting humanity, Holly Herndon's ambitious new project might make you feel some type of way. "Godmother" is a ...

Producer Jlin, who plays Kremwerk on Thursday (March 24), told Rolling Stone magazine she thinks art should be “disturbing.” That makes sense, since she works in a subgenre called “footwork” that’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Near the beginning of her lecture at this year's Red Bull Music Academy in Berlin, Jlin explains to moderator Chal Ravens why "naked" is a term she frequently uses to ...

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 ...

Ever since the first Pulitzer Prize for music was awarded in 1943, the pieces under consideration were almost all conceived inside the mind of a composer who then sat down at a piano with a notebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jlin, “Dark Energy” (Planet Mu). For reasons known only to Rahm Emmanuel, R. Kelly and Chance the Rapper, Chicago has generated some curiously weird sounds. One of the strangest and most beguiling is ...