Revenge of Riff Raff

Revenge Recommends: "Destroyer of the Universe" by Amon Amarth

November 29, 2011 Add Comment

Amon Amarth are a legendary Swedish melodic death metal band whose lyrics, sung in a guttural death grunt by giant frontman Johan Hegg...

Album Review, Soundgarden, "Badmotorfinger"

November 28, 2011 Add Comment

Seattle's premier sub-poppers go one step beyond Louder Than Love with an album that is sure to elevate them higher and open up a wider...

Album Review, Lita Ford, "Dangerous Curves"

November 27, 2011 Add Comment

After an absence of almost two years raunchy Rock Goddess LITA FORD returns with this, her third solo album since departing the ranks of gir...

Album Review: Air "10,000 Hz Legend"

November 14, 2011 Add Comment

Music originally started as sound representation of visual reality. Approaching Air's new album, 10,000 Hz Legend in these terms,...

Revenge Recommends: "Take Me To The Otherside" by Mechanical Smile

November 14, 2011 Add Comment

The valley of the River Irvine in central Ayrshire is a minor hotbed of rock talent, having already produced World-beaters Biffy Clyr...

Photo: Mike McColgan, Street Dogs

November 11, 2011 Add Comment

The original singer of the Dropkick Murphys, Mike McColgan on stage at Liquid Room, Tokyo, with his new band The Street Dogs. Like the ...

Live Review: Michie Koyama,Saitama Bunka Centre, 16th Oct, 2011

November 09, 2011 Add Comment

I guess it's the T-shirt factor. When an audience shows up dressed in baggy shorts, flip flops and other attire more suited for a da...

Riff Raff II

November 06, 2011 Add Comment

The second issue of Riff Raff hit the newstands in January 1990 with Jon Bon Jovi on the cover. Editorial was by Mark Crampton, Mark L...

Live Video: Cathedral at Quattro Shibuya, Tokyo

November 05, 2011 Add Comment

Cathedral live at Quattro Shibuya on the 20th of April, 2011. Live Report . Video: Colin Liddell

Preview: Ringing World

November 05, 2011 Add Comment

RINGING WORLD are a Scottish band based in London. The four-piece are fronted by singer/ guitarist Robert Farrell. They are attracting maj...

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff 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-D-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 trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct 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, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!