Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: The Black Crowes, "Shake Your Money Maker"

February 26, 2011 Add Comment

America's answer to the Q'boys and the Dogs, I was excited to get this one and crank it up. Umm, they cook with the same ingredien...

Live Review: Thunder, Don Valley Stadium, 6th June, 1993

February 23, 2011 Add Comment

If you like, THUNDER are a bit of a throwback, a classic-sounding White British rock band steeped in the time-worn tradition of Black R n...

Live Review: Slide, Camden Palace, 30th January, 1990

February 20, 2011 Add Comment

Slide It In Camden Palace on a Tuesday night isn't exactly the best place for a young, aspiring, straight-down-the-line rock band l...

Album Review: The Infectious Grooves, "The Plague That Makes Your Body Move...It's The Infectious Grooves"

February 15, 2011 Add Comment

What do Mike Muir and Robert Trujillo of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, Stephen Perkins of JANE'S ADDICTION and OZZY OSBOURNE all have in common?...

Art: Lemmy

February 14, 2011 Add Comment

An affectionate caricature of "rock n' roll" god Lemmy by Nina Kouprianova. Note the skull serving the role of heavy metal...

Interview: Brian Borcherdt, Holy Fuck

February 10, 2011 Add Comment

The techno-shy Canadians breathe new life into electronica's grooves Brian Borcherdt has no regrets about choosing the moniker ...

Live Review: Shy, The Astoria, 27th November, 1989

February 10, 2011 Add Comment

BON (SHY) Tonight a half-full auditorium awaited the return of Shy, who've spent the last couple of months or so in the States...

Photo: Rob Halford

February 09, 2011 Add Comment

Rob Halford biting a copy of "Riff Raff Metal Magazine" in Tokyo during the Crucible Tour, 2002. Photo: Colin Liddell

Photo: Ozzy Osbourne

February 09, 2011 Add Comment

Ozzy Osbourne on stage at the Loud Park heavy metal festival at Saitama Super Arena, Japan, 17th October, 2010. Photo: Colin Liddell

Album Review: Therapy? "Infernal Love"

February 09, 2011 Add Comment

The energetic Ulster trio return with a more mature and complex sonic rock tapestry as they explore further their obsession with the more u...

Live Review: Hothouse Flowers, Town & Country, 6th or 7th June, 1990

February 04, 2011 Add Comment

Summertime Blues Only a few years ago HOTHOUSE FLOWERS were busking in the streets of Dublin. Today they still play with the carefree aban...

Book Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers

February 04, 2011 Add Comment

Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Complete Story by Spike Harvey A book about the story of the Chilis that falls well short of its title's ...

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!