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Posted inFilm

‘Chicago is a funny-ass town’

by Jonathan Dale April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

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.

Semiratruth sits on the edge of the roof of an apartment building at night.
Posted inMusic

Semiratruth’s Moonlandin’ elevates her music to a new plane

by Leor Galil January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

A silence louder than words

by Taylor Moore July 21, 2021June 20, 2022

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

Posted inNews & Politics

On house arrest with Mohawk Johnson

by Leor Galil March 31, 2021July 8, 2022

CPD has tried to turn rapper and comedian Mohawk Johnson into a cautionary example to social justice protesters. He has other plans.

CaSera Heining started DJing for Louder Than a Bomb in early 2014, partway through her first year at Columbia College. She became a full-time DJ in 2017.
Posted inMusic

CaSera Heining, producer at WGN Radio and DJ Ca$h Era

by Leor Galil February 4, 2021August 18, 2021

“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.”

Posted inArts & Culture

Jamila Woods to perform at 20th anniversary Louder Than a Bomb finals

by Brianna Wellen March 2, 2020August 18, 2021

The musician, poet, and LTAB alum takes the stage during halftime.

Posted inMusic

The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Pitchfork Music Festival

by Leor Galil July 16, 2019August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inMusic

Brittney Carter discovers Chicago hip-hop—and vice versa

by Matt Harvey March 7, 2019August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inArts & Culture

Louder Than a Bomb returns for its 19th season of slam poetry competitions

by Jack Helbig February 26, 2019August 18, 2021

Young poets describe its explosive effect on their lives.

Posted inBlogs

Jamila Woods and Kevin Coval collaborate with Vinyl for a Cause to benefit Young Chicago Authors

by Matt Harvey June 26, 2018August 18, 2021

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.”

Posted inBlogs

It’s time once again for the two-day book bonanza that’s the Printers Row Lit Fest

by Aimee Levitt June 8, 2018August 18, 2021

Books! Books! Authors! Food! Books!

Posted inBlogs

Murder and Mayhem in Chicago and more of the best things to do this weekend

by Rachel Yang March 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Sci-Fi Spectacular movie marathon and more goings-on March 16-18

Posted inMusic

A people’s history of Kevin Coval

by Leor Galil April 12, 2017August 18, 2021

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

Posted inBlogs

Femdot carries the defiant spirit of Louder Than a Bomb on his new EP

by Leor Galil March 15, 2017August 18, 2021

Chicago rapper Femdot attacks systemic injustices that harm the black community on “Goodcops.”

Posted inBlogs

Avoid Saint Patrick’s Day in Chicago this weekend with works by Larry Clark at the MCA and more things to do

by Brianna Wellen March 10, 2017August 18, 2021

Louder Than a Bomb, the We Watch Wrestling podcast, Claudia Pop-Up dinner, and more happenings from March 10-12

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