Krewella

Krewella started as a three-piece out of Northbrook, Illinois, way back in 2007, when sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf linked up with producer Kris Trindl after meeting at a high school party. They spent a couple years grinding on Myspace before anyone outside Chicago knew who they were, and they took the whole thing seriously enough to get matching “6-8-10” tattoos marking June 8, 2010, the day they decided to go all in as a group. That commitment paid off fast. Their 2012 EP Play Hard cracked the top ten on Billboard’s Dance Albums chart, and the single “Alive” turned into the moment everyone points to as their real breakthrough, a certified hit that cracked the Hot 100 and moved over a million copies.

Sound-wise, Krewella never stayed in one lane. Their music bounces between big-room house, dubstep, drum and bass, trap, and pure pop hooks, which is basically why “Alive” worked on a festival main stage and a top 40 radio station at the same time. Their debut album Get Wet dropped in 2013 and topped the Dance Albums chart, cementing them as one of the few female-fronted acts running the EDM main stage circuit at that point in the genre’s boom.

The Split, and What Came After

Things got messy in 2014 when Kris Trindl exited the group. He later filed a lawsuit reportedly seeking $5 million, claiming he’d been forced out, and the sisters countersued in response. It was a genuinely ugly public dispute for a while, playing out through legal filings and dueling interviews before both sides settled out of court in 2015 on undisputed terms. In a 2016 interview, Jahan and Yasmine opened up about the years leading up to it, including Kris’s stint in rehab in 2013, and pushed back on the narrative that he’d been the sole producer behind the music, saying they wrote every song and ran the project as executive producers throughout.

Krewella pressed on as a duo, releasing the Ammunition EP in 2016 and following it with the album Zer0 in January 2020 and The Body Never Lies in 2022. Along the way they picked up collaborators across the map, from a feature on Paul McCartney’s “Love Song to the Earth” to team-ups with Jauz, Yellow Claw, Pegboard Nerds, and Nucleya.

After a quiet stretch, Jahan and Yasmine came back in June 2025 with “Crying On The Dancefloor,” a melodic techno cut that marked their first new original music in three years, followed by “Eternal” that November. Nearly two decades in, the sisters are still the ones steering the ship, and they sound like they’re just getting started on the next chapter.