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 ...
She’ll be joined by violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, dancer Leonardo Sandoval and members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the same day as the release of their Intermission LP, Unsound Festival dropped “Jsloipnhie” featuring Jlin and late avant-pop producer Sophie. “Jsloipnhie” opens with a hypnotic beat — swinging ...