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 ...

Unsurprisingly, Jlin’s energy is absolutely infectious. Despite the lack of face to face interaction (I speak to her over Skype), she becomes audibly animated over the course of the interview and ...

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 ...

Holly Herndon and Jlin recently sat down with Berlin-based music software company Ableton for a new interview about their production techniques and their musical writing process. While the two have ...

With the help of UK labels Hyperdub and Planet Mu, footwork has become something of a world concern over the course of the last few years, its founding voices taking the sound far beyond its Chicago ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 world first heard Jlin back in 2011, when her exceptional songs lept out out of Planet Mu’s second Bangs & Works footwork compilation. Those records almost single-handedly brought footwork to the ...