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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The footwork producer has taken influences from across the map to make dance music that sounds like nothing else. Is Jerrilynn Patton the future of electronica? Black Origami, the title of the new ...

“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 ...

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 ...