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 ...

Holly Herndon knows that every aspect of today’s technological dystopia really is deeply human at its core. On her 2015 album Platform, the Berlin-based composer fed haunting chorale vocals into ...

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 ...

Jlin announced her new EP Embryo and shared its title track last week. And now, the producer has teamed up with rapper Fitz Fonzarelli and beatmaker Cap Productions for the new song "Loc'd & Ready," ...

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 ...

Jerilynn Patton makes music as Jlin, in Gary, Indiana. A former steel mill worker, she has roots in footwork, the light-speed dance music from Chicago. Two of footwork’s stalwarts, DJ Rashad and RP ...

Indiana electronic musician Jlin has announced her first full-length album since 2018, Akoma, due March 24 via Planet Mu (pre-order). It features appearances by Björk, Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass ...

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 ...

Gary, Indiana's Jlin (aka Jerrilynn Patton) has reigned as one of footwork/juke's most interesting and sophisticated producers since she began releasing music nine years ago via England's Planet Mu ...

Last month, Jlin announced a new album, Akoma, which boasts some heavy-hitting guest spots from Björk, Philip Glass, and Kronos Quartet. Its lead single was “The Precision Of Infinity” (the one that ...

The great paradox of the soundscape as musical mode is that the best background music is also the best music for full immersion, for completely saturating the senses and diving into a deep, rich, ...