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 ...
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 ...
Jlin has partnered with music education platform Soundfly to release a new online course based around ‘rhythmic creativity. The course, dubbed Jlin: Rhythm, Variation & Vulnerability, features 20 ...
Jlin has announced a new EP titled Embryo, and has unveiled the title-track as the first taster. "Embryo" is Jlin's first new material since 2018's Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor's ...
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 ...
There is energy in the air tonight, the kind that jostles particles and pricks the hair. It is potent, breath-bating, not unlike the moment between flash and thunder roll. Invisible, palpable, but not ...
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 ...
“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 ...