We’re having a party. Or rather, we’re gatecrashing someone else’s, but why split hairs when you’ve got a rare live performance by Infinite Livez, one of the country’s most original and downright craziest MCs, a DJ set from bright young thing Bullion and Bonafide DJs in room 2 to keep you entertained all night. Oh, and did we mention Soundcrash are hosting DJ Kentaro in room 1 and all profits for the night will go to a Japanese earthquake relief fund? We did now, the ticket links are here my friend. The night goes down on Saturday 21st May at XOYO. …Read More.
Aside for being the home city of Andy Cole’s second club and Skins, Bristol has a deep-rooted musical culture. It is for these reasons and more that Bonafide is pleased as punch, or Old Bristolian Cider, to be a media partner for the inaugural We, The People festival. …Read More.
Bonafide are proud sponsors of this years StreetFest 2011. The country’s leading live art festival celebrates its third year, and second in the Hearn Street car park space in Shoreditch. StreetFest is a truly organic experience that encourages a unique type of creative interaction, encompassing ‘music, art, film, street sports and fashion’ you could say it is the physical embodiment of our very own documenting concrete culture mantra. Which is why we’re hyped to be involved. …Read More.
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.
A month barely passes without a Raekwon related post rounds these parts, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Part II was a straight up banger sitting high among the 00s’ best rap albums and the early signs suggest Rae is onto another winner with Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang. …Read More.
The Odd Future band wagon keeps on rolling, and if the look on Mos Def’s face at the end of this stirring performance on the Jimmy Fallon show is anything to go by it shows no signs of stopping.
“When you bring out a new CD you get noticed. I have read a lot of things about me this year. One was that I had disappeared. So excuse me during tonight’s performance if I go ‘poof!!’ and disappear!!” …Read More.
“BOOM!” Marker pen on the front of a white bucket-hat is reclaimed from advertising by Supernatural, who is now using it as a prop for his punch lines. The dense crowd at the edge of the stage are holding up random objects as the MC tiptoes freestyle rhymes incorporating a digital camera, a flyer, a blackberry with ‘I Love Hip Hop’ as its screensaver and then … “I bet you’re eyes jump out the socket/as I take your ten pound note and slide it in my pocket”.
13th November marks the last Vinyl Exchange of the year. Held between 2pm and 8pm at the The Silver Bullet, 5 Station Place, (and run by Chakra Sounds) it’s a day where nimble fingered obsessives get to swap and buy black slabs of aural goodness while shooting the breeze with fellow producers, DJs and record collectors.
Barter over dusty gems with the likes of Evil Ed, Sensie.fm DJs, Rarekind Records and TY before standing back and nodding your head to performances from Konny Kon, Cyrus Malachi, Chima Anya and Jon Phonics (peep our recent interview).
