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Music, Music Feature Mar 31, 2021
On house arrest with Mohawk Johnson

CPD has tried to turn the rapper and comedian into a cautionary example to social justice protesters. He has other plans.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Mohawk Johnson, Jeremey “Mohawk” Johnson, Jeremey Charles Johnson, Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Cook County Jail, house arrest, arrest, electronic monitoring, GPS monitor, Chicago Police Department, CPD, David Brown, protest, demonstration, Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Matthew Walberg, Second City, Brad Thomson, People’s Law Office, National Lawyers Guild, South Side Weekly, Kim Whitfield, Free Mohawk, #FreeMohawk, J.B. Pritzker, Kim Foxx, Reset Presents, skateboard, Pokémon, Fire-Type, 4Closure, TYGKO, Cam Stacey, Jake "Ell!psis" Doan, Ell!psis, Balance, Charles Seavers, Karen Ford, National Writers Union, Auburn Gresham, Luther South, Englewood High School, Team Englewood, Louder Than a Bomb, Spirit of the Slam Award, What Black People Say to Racist Republicans, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Judge John F. Lyke, Judge Edward M. Maloney, Columbia College, Naughta, Hush, The Relapse EP, SoundAsleep, Maria Koliopoulos, William Crooks, We’re Here, Alderman Bryan Sigcho-Lopez, Injustice Watch, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, A Fire Type Telethon

Music, Chicagoans of Note Feb 4, 2021
Video
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.”
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Chicagoans of Note, CaSera Heining, DJ Cash Era, DJ Ca$h Era, WGN Radio, Young Chicago Authors, Louder Than a Bomb, Columbia College, Club DJ 1, DJ I.N.C., Kevin Coval, Northwestern University, WordPlay, DJ, Twitch, Zoom, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 2, 2020
Jamila Woods to perform at 20th anniversary Louder Than a Bomb finals

The musician, poet, and LTAB alum takes the stage during halftime.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Jamila Woods, Louder Than a Bomb, Young Chicago Authors, slam poetry, 20th anniversary, avery r young, Nicole Humphrey, Muhammad Ali

Music, Pitchfork Jul 16, 2019
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 farsighted, eclectic bookings.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, Pitchfork, Silver Room Block Party, ComplexCon, Complex magazine, Conde Nast, Young Chicago Authors, Louder Than a Bomb, Pitchfork Radio, Robyn, Haim, Isley Brothers, Low, AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, Rico Nasty, Low, Freddie Gibbs, Kurt Vile, JPEGmafia

Music, Music Feature Mar 7, 2019
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Brittney Carter discovers Chicago hip-hop—and vice versa

She 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.
- By Matt Harvey
- Tags: Music Feature, Brittney Carter, rap, hip-hop, Young Chicago Authors, Louder Than a Bomb, Blue Island, Soundcloud, Beatrix Kiddo, Breakthrough, Hooligan, Kwynology, Lena Bands, Jay Rock, Top Dawg Entertainment, Bekoe, Sasha Go Hard, Illanoize, Terrence “Punch” Henderson, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, Fake Shore Drive, Blue Island, Parkland College, Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods, Add-2, Haven Studios, Andre Daniels, Disrupt, Loop Theory, EssieL, Set It Off, cypher, freestyle, Syd Shaw, Bella Bahhs, J Bambii, Freddie Old Soul, Mobb Deep, Survival of the Fittest, DJ Lisa Decibel, Chuck D, Public Enemy, Metro, Kenneth Clair, Rafael Navarro, Dre Izaya, Heir Porter, Ryen, Operation X, Dougy, AlifortheGo, Stark of Huey, Femdot, Queen Bars, 247HH, the Boy Illinois, Bump J, King Bars, Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X, Colum McCann, Letters to a Young Writer, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 26, 2018
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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."
- By Matt Harvey
- Tags: Music, Poetry, Vinyl for a Cause, Jamila Woods, VFAC 004, Kevin Coval, Tasha, Muddy, Young Chicago Authors, Snow Day, LSD, Muddy Water Goes Electric, Chance the Rapper, Nico Segal, Reverb LP, vinyl, nonprofit, R&B, poetry, Louder Than a Bomb, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2018
It’s time once again for the two-day book bonanza that’s the Printers Row Lit Fest

Books! Books! Authors! Food! Books!
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, Books, Printers Row Lit Fest, Jones College Prep, Bill Kim, Dawn Turner Trice, Steve Almond, Louder Than a Bomb, Arlene Stein, Rebecca Makkai, Lorrie Moore, Christopher Borelli, Rabih Alameddine, Aleksandar Hemon, Ben Austen, Sarah Kendzior, Ethan Michaeli, Sonali Dev, Josh Noel, Ray Daniels, Kevin Young, Natasha Trethewey, '63 Boycott, 826 Chi, Linda Gartz, Hermene Hartman, Nadine Strossen, Laura Kipnis, Geoffrey Stone, Colleen Taylor Sen, Bruce Kraig, Bill Daley, Megan Stielstra, Zoe Zolbrod, Gina Frangello, Adrian Tomine, Nick Drnaso, Chris Ware, Hillary Chute, Black Girl Magic, Jamila Woods, Eve Ewing, Raych Jackson

Music, Music Feature Apr 12, 2017
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A people’s history of Kevin Coval

For decades the cofounder of Louder Than a Bomb has nurtured young voices and built vital communities in Chicago’s poetry, spoken-word, and hip-hop scenes. Now people whose lives he’s touched help tell his story.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Kevin Coval, Young Chicago Authors, Louder Than a Bomb, A People’s History of Chicago, Haymarket Books, Tia Chucha Press, Bob Boone, Danny Coval, Luis Rodriguez, Guild Literary Complex, Will Caref, Alternative Schools Network, Tina M. Howell, Lit X, Mad Bar, Avery R. Young, Dennis Kim, Denizen Kane, I Was Born With Two Tongues, Typical Cats, Rhythm, POETREE Chicago, YouMedia, Brother Mike, Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core, Malcolm London, Mark Eleveld, EM Press, Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn, Anna West, rap, soul, poetry, spoken word, open mike, Third World Press, Haki Madhubuti, Angela Jackson, Bill Ayers, Nate Marshall, Alex Kotlowitz, Jamila Woods, Mick Jenkins, The Breakbeat Poets, Black Girl Magic, Gwendolyn Brooks, Noname, Chance the Rapper, Nico Segal, A People’s History of the United States, Henry Gerber, Saba, Society for Human Rights, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Ron Hardy, Thomas Dorsey, Sun Ra, Molemen, The Black Poets, Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, KRS-One, Nikki Giovanni, Jayne Cortez, Amiri Baraka, Don L. Lee, L-vis Lives!, Def Poetry Jam, El Cuarto Año, Marc Smith, Uptown Poetry Slam, Black Writers Conference, Slingshots, Kamilah Forbes, Teaching Artist Corps, Wordplay, Jon Siskel, Greg Jacobs, Patricia Smith, David Hernandez, Brother Wayne Teasdale, Anacron, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2017
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."
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Hip-Hop, Music, Femdot, Goodcops, 12 O'Clock Track, Louder Than a Bomb, Young Chicago Authors, (U)no

Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2017
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
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Too Much Fun Too, Quimby's, Strip Joker, Uptown Underground, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 20th anniversary, Bucket o Blood, Murder and Mayhem in Chicago, Roosevelt University, We Watch Wrestling, Beat Kitchen, Full Circle, Auditorium Theatre, Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Louder Than a Bomb, Metro, Young Chicago Authors, Claudia Pop-Up

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 29, 2016
Chicago noise-rockers Rash light the fuse of their debut LP

Plus: Weirdo dance night Hot on the Heels celebrates ten years at Danny’s, and hip-hop writer Ben Westhoff talks west-coast rap at Volumes.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Rash, Skinner Box, High Fashion Industries, Torture Love, Bruges, Droids Blood, Broken Prayer, Beau Wanzer, Danny’s, Hot on the Heels, Confused House, Traxx, tenth anniversary, Steve Summers, Ben Westhoff, Original Gangstas, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, Volumes Bookcafe, Kevin Coval, Louder Than a Bomb, Tara Mahadevan

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2016
Northalsted Halloween Parade, Art Spiegelman, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Ten fun things to do in Chicago on Halloween and the rest of the week.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Food & Drink, Lit & Lectures, Halloween, Northalsted, Parade, Chicago Sinfonietta, Dia de los Muertos, Chicago Film Archives, Porn and Chicken, Halloween Banger, Medea Benjamin, City Lit, Tuesday Funk, NaNoWriMo, Taste of Clark Street, Phillip Glass, Art Spiegelman, Louder Than a Bomb

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2016
C2E2 takes over Chicago, Louder Than a Bomb's sweet 16, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Oh, Hello, the Turnament of Champyuns, and other events from March 18-20.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Louder Than a Bomb, sweet sixteen, Chuck D, DJ Lord, Metro, C2E2, McCormick Place, Woodn't Be the First Time, Gallery19, Oh hello, John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Athenaeum Theatre, Late Late Breakfast, Turnament of Champyuns, Hideout, Garth Greenwell, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, What Belongs to You, Chicago Cultural Center, Contratiempo: She Says, Therefore She Is, things to do

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 20, 2016
The Palace Film Festival hosts two days of experimental music and movies

Plus: Derrick Carter reissues Sweetened—No Lemon, and Louder Than a Bomb celebrates a new mixtape at Metro.
- By Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Palace Film Festival, Studebaker Theater, Johalla Projects, Anna Cerniglia, Heather Gabel, Hide, Robert Stockwell, Misunderstood, Asia Argento, Jim Magas, Three Legged Race, Olivia Block, Noah Leger, Derrick Carter, Sweetened No Lemon, Sound Patrol, Organico, Arts & Labour, Lykanthea, Oakeater, Pod Blotz, Sich Mang, Gel Set, Louder Than a Bomb, WBEZ, Vocalo, Young Chicago Authors, Winter Block Party, Jamila Woods, Ravyn Levae, Kweku Collins, Ric Wilson

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2015
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Malcolm London broadens the Chicago hip-hop scene with 'I'mPossible'

The activist, poet, and educator officially adds "rapper" to his growing CV, and the scene is better for it.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Malcolm London, Louder Than a Bomb, Young Chicago Authors, YouMedia, Chance the Rapper, I'mPossible, Open Mike, Vic Mensa, Frank Leone, OnGaud, 2 AM, Redeye(s), TED Talk, Adrianna's, Video

Arts & Culture, Book Review May 5, 2015
Recommended
Poetry in the age of hip-hop

Music courses through the new anthology Breakbeat Poets
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Book Review, KRS-One, The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nate Marshall, Haymarket Books, hip-hop, Mick Jenkins, Noname Gypsy, Saba, Chance the Rapper, Louder than a Bomb, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Franny Choi, Lil Wayne, Michael Cirelli, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 31, 2015
Teen poets of Louder Than a Bomb—beware of groupthink

Changing the climate through teenage poetry.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Poetry, Media, News, Louder Than a Bomb, Arie Crown Theater, "Merchants of Doubt, " "Mother Jones, " David Corn, Bob Inglis, socialism

Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2015
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Mick Jenkins headline two stacked hip-hop shows on Saturday

Two big local hip-hop shows kick off Saturday night, one featuring 90s legends Crucial Conflict and Twista, the other anchored by rising stars such as Mick Jenkins.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Do This, Hip-Hop, Music, hip-hop, Midwest Legends, Twista, Do or Die, Crucial Conflict, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Vocalo, Young Chicago Authors, Louder Than a Bomb, Mick Jenkins, ShowYouSuck, Saba, Noname Gypsy

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best literary event

Printers Row Lit Fest
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, best literary event, Printer's Row Lit Fest, Chicago Zine Fest, Louder Than a Bomb, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2014
Englewood's message to Mayor Wreck-it Rahm

While Mayor Rahm sang a song of self-love at SXSW, four teen poets from Englewood spoke the truth about what's really going on in Chicago.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Politics, News, Englewood, Alicia Hincon, David Holmes, Dallas Battle, Kenyatta Tolbert, David Stieber, South by Southwest Interactive and Music Conferences, Austin, Texas, SXSW, Englewood High School, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Metro, Louder than a Bomb, teen poets, Chicago Public Schools, Wreck it Ralph, the Young Fugitives, After School Matters

Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sat 3/8: SXSW Send Off Party, Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers, and Louder Than a Bomb semifinals

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, March 8
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Austin, Texas, Radar Eyes, Outer Minds, Absolutely Not, Ryley Walker, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Hideout, SXSW Send Off Party, South by Southwest, WWE, Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestling, Anne Hackaway, Lumberjack Jill, CLLAW XVIII, Logan Square Auditorium, Young Chicago Authors, Louder Than a Bomb, Metro, CPS, Chicago Public Schools

Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 3, 2013
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From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup

Short takes on five new books
- By Sam Worley, Aimee Levitt, Kevin Warwick, Tal Rosenberg, and Jena Cutie
- Tags: Book Review, books, Edith Hamilton, Chicago authors, Kate Southwood, novels, Tri-State Tornado, bathroom books, Cory O'Brien, Europa Editions, Perigree Trade, mythology, bettermyths.com, Kevin Coval, Nas, Louder Than a Bomb, poetry, Averill Curdy, Haymarket Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Ovid, Augustus, Edward Kelsey Moore, Knopf, first novels

Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 2/14: Anti-Valentine's Day Party, Urban Sandbox, and Casablanca

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thuday, February 14, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Anti-Valentine’s Day Party, Logan Square Auditorium, the Hood Internet, the Fly Honeys dance, the Windy City Rollers, the Whistler, Latin Dance Night, Ballroom Dance Chicago, Reuben Wu, Ladytron, Beauty Bar, Urban Sandbox, Hairpin Lofts Arts Center, Marty McConnell, Wine for a Shotgun, Lamar Jorden, Louder Than a Bomb, Robb Q. Telfer. Music Box, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2013
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The first knockout of 2013, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gene Siskel Film Center, Beware of Mr. Baker, Cream Ginger Baker, Bullet to the Head, Walter Hill, Sylvester Stallone, 56 Up, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker, In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers, Shohei Imamura, Pigs & Soldiers, Mama I'm Alive, Meet the Fokkens, Movie 43, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walker, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Levine, The Wackness, 50/50, Waterwalk, Otto Preminger, Advise and Consent, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Ashes of Time, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, Gene Siskel Film Center, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, Music Box Chicago, Patio Theater Chicago, Robert Rossen Lilith, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Gerg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Louder Than a Bomb, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, F.W. Murnau Sunrise, Little Queer Film Festival, Center on Halsted, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Feb 23, 2012
Slideshow
Louder Than a Bomb 2012

The teen poetry slam enters its tenth year
- By Jacob Yeung
- Tags: Lit Feature, Louder Than a Bomb, Slideshow

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