Successful club nights often result in aspirations for bigger and better things. Many try, few succeed. One notable success story is Glasgow-based label LuckyMe, whose evolution from club night to label to artist collective has been glowingly acknowledged as representing ‘the true spirit of independent thinking’, and has been selected for the prestigious Beck’s Green Box Project. …Read More.
Rinse Presents: A Visual Retrospective – The Work Of Shaun Bloodworth & Give Up Art celebrates the visual identity of the seminal London-based radio station and label, Rinse.
In many ways the exhibition is a documentation of the growth of the label and its modus operandi to positively promote and encourage underground music. Like other influential labels such as Factory, Mo’Wax, Lex, Ninja Tune and Big Dada, Rinse has also sought to cultivate a visual style that embodies what the music is all about. For Saville, Drury, Ehquestionmark! and Oscar and Ewan (check out back issues of Bonafide magazine for features on these design heroes) read London design agency Give Up Art and photographer Shaun Bloodworth. Give Up Art and Bloodworth have built a long standing relationship with the label to develop an aesthetic that screams Rinse.
The exhibition will be at the Truman Brewery Gallery, 12-22 August 2011.
In what now seems to be a staple event at the annual Notting Hill Carnival, Red Bull have once again joined forces with Major Lazer for the Carnival Party that takes place, as ever, under the westway on Monday 29th August. Diplo and Switch will once again bring a host of guests a collaborators along for the party, with surprise appearances in previous years from the likes of MIA, Santigold and Lee Scratch Perry. …Read More.
Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album
Thames and Hudson
The beauty of Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album is that this well conceived publication not only comprehensively documents one most influential record labels to come out of UK, it also doubles up as a valuable resource for creatives too.
DELS is fast becoming our favourite new rapper, nice mic skills, with impressively diverse production collabs (stream TVOTR’s Dave Sitek dreamy remix below), an eye for design and he’s also a gooner, too. …Read More.
As usual we’ve raised the stakes and aimed to put out something that you won’t find anywhere else. A UK themed issue from the red and blue colour scheme to the fashion imagery through to the innovative musicians and artists we’ve spoken to, issue 04 celebrates our very own local originators.
Peep the roll call of exclusives. On the music tip we’ve got exclusive features with the bedrock of UK hip-hop. From the grey High Plains of Huddersfield, Jehst and the YNR crew, cover star Klashnekoff reloading for his next saga, the cerebral thoughts of Ty, electronic pioneers Coldcut/Ninja Tune and Daddy Skitz. Also in the mix is the un-definable Jamie Lidell, floating vocals from Fatima, the relentless underground warrior Cappo and Radio 1xtra DJs Benji B, Mista Jam and DJ Target.
On the visual side of things we chat to street artist agent provocateur D*Face, visual storyteller Slinkachu, dope designers Oscar and Ewan, and include illustrations by some of the UK’s finest pencil wielding talent.
Oh yeah, and from across the Pond, the one and only Mutha Fecking Gaslamp Killer drops in for a cup of tea. Cop your copy here or from the usual stockists including TATE, Fopp, Magma, Rough Trade and all good record stores.
Yup, that’s right kids, for a limited time only you can read all back issues of your favourite art design and music magazine (or ‘a fucking hip-hop guide book’, according to Raekwon) online at Issuu.
We enjoy wasting the day away on the Internet whilst pretending to do work as much as the next person, but Bonafide is essentially a print magazine and in order to keep it that way we need to sell it. And to encourage you to buy it we’re giving away a free album from the legendary BBE records with every 2 issues ordered via our online shop. And that’s what we like to call bullshit free marketing. …Read More.
Trevor Jackson has a new solo show entitled Nowhere coming up at London’s KK Outlet.
Jackson is a true ‘headz, head’ and has the talent and ability not only to produce timeless work, but also straddle moving pictures, graphic design and audio production with equal aplomb. For a man who has produced visual slickness for Eric B & Rakim, The Rapture and Output Records, and a multitude of dope music releases under various guises including Playgroup and The Underdog, Nowhere should be a very interesting show. We reckon anyone even slightly curious about the work of an established UK innovator who has helped shaped todays street aesthetic should check this out.
Nowhere features a series of photographic and video works and will run from March 4-26.
Label Love Vol.2 arrives like a big Mulled wine kiss on the smackers. Vol.2 features rare and exclusive tracks dusted down from the digital vaults of Tru Thoughts, Ninja Tune, One-Handed Music, Plug Research and Ubiquity, and comes beautifully gift-wrapped by Bright Moments.
Grab this seasonal treat for free here.
Courtesy of the good folk over at Black Dog Publishing we have 3 pairs of copies of the first and latest instalment of the piously good Labels Unlimited series up for grabs. The collection includes editions on UK Indie music royalty Rough Trade and Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate Records but in Warp and Ninja Tune Blackdog have nailed 2 of our favourite electronic labels, and you can get a 40% discount on the books by quoting ‘Bonafide’ at checkout. …Read More.
