Revenge of Riff Raff

Edwin's "Almost as Intense as My Life" Top Ten Albums of 2025

January 28, 2026 Add Comment

I know the Revenge of Riff Raff faithful have been wondering where their awesome album and show reviews have gone! Where are those meanderi...

Preview: The Genbaku Onanies, Tokyo 2026

January 22, 2026 Add Comment

Since 1982, the GENBAKU ONANIES (rough translation: "The Atomic Pussies") have been carrying the flame of J-punk, bouncing short, ...

Interview: Karl Hyde, Underworld

January 20, 2026 Add Comment

If nothing else, their iconic soundtrack for Trainspotting —and in Japan their sets at Fuji Rock and Rainbow 2000—assure UNDERWORLD a spot i...

"Fender Bender," The Attempt to Degender the Strat

January 13, 2026 Add Comment

Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain rocking the "Hello Kitty" Strat Back in the Zeroes, US guitar-maker Fender felt ...

Album Review: Arcade Fire, "Neon Bible"

January 12, 2026 Add Comment

ARCADE FIRE’s breakthrough 2007 record. God, this is awful! Pretentious as fuck, twee, maudlin, vaguely preachy but without ever making eye ...

Live Review: Rock the Bowl '91, Milton Keynes Bowl, July 6th, 1991

January 11, 2026 Add Comment

PHEW! WOTTA SCORCHER! A house, a tree, a roundabout, another roundabout, a shit-awful bus shelter, another roundabout, a real trendy fire st...

Revenge...?

RIFF RAFF was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, it was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-n-Jack-Daniels-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more nerdy and woke publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers... BUT it is also a place for new talent to rise and shine. So, don't be shy! In the words of the immortal Fly, send in your "news, blues, and reviews" - and even interviews if you've got the balls to buttonhole your heroes!