The Reader caught up with Kerman to talk about what connects South Side and Bust Down, being reasonable in an insane world, and working with Freddie Gibbs.
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Semiratruth’s Moonlandin’ elevates her music to a new plane
Semiratruth Garrett remembers the exact day her creative life opened up. It wasn’t the afternoon in 2014 when she first recorded a song at Harold Washington Library’s YouMedia lab, or the day several years later when she rapped her way onto Netflix’s 2019 hip-hop competition, Rhythm + Flow—though both those moments are also burned into […]
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A silence louder than words
How allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city’s spoken word community
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On house arrest with Mohawk Johnson
CPD has tried to turn rapper and comedian Mohawk Johnson into a cautionary example to social justice protesters. He has other plans.
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CaSera Heining, producer at WGN Radio and DJ Ca$h Era
“For a couple months, I was just DJing for tips. Luckily the community that I have around me, they were pouring into me as much as I give out to them.”
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Jamila Woods to perform at 20th anniversary Louder Than a Bomb finals
The musician, poet, and LTAB alum takes the stage during halftime.
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The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Pitchfork Music Festival
Even on a weekend it shares with the Silver Room Block Party and the debut of ComplexCon Chicago, Pitchfork stands out for its far-sighted, eclectic bookings.
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Brittney Carter discovers Chicago hip-hop—and vice versa
Brittney Carter thought she was just writing poems. Her classmates at Young Chicago Authors heard a great rapper in the making—and the rest of the city’s scene is starting to agree.
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Louder Than a Bomb returns for its 19th season of slam poetry competitions
Young poets describe its explosive effect on their lives.
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Jamila Woods and Kevin Coval collaborate with Vinyl for a Cause to benefit Young Chicago Authors
Woods contributed a song inspired by a Coval poem about the blues going electric, and Coval enlisted Tasha for a wintertime answer to Woods’s “LSD.”
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It’s time once again for the two-day book bonanza that’s the Printers Row Lit Fest
Books! Books! Authors! Food! Books!
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Murder and Mayhem in Chicago and more of the best things to do this weekend
Sci-Fi Spectacular movie marathon and more goings-on March 16-18
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A people’s history of Kevin Coval
Louder Than a Bomb cofounder Kevin Coval in the words of people in Chicago’s poetry, spoken-word, and hip-hop scenes whose lives he’s touched
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Femdot carries the defiant spirit of Louder Than a Bomb on his new EP
Chicago rapper Femdot attacks systemic injustices that harm the black community on “Goodcops.”
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Avoid Saint Patrick’s Day in Chicago this weekend with works by Larry Clark at the MCA and more things to do
Louder Than a Bomb, the We Watch Wrestling podcast, Claudia Pop-Up dinner, and more happenings from March 10-12