Revenge of Riff Raff

Video Review: Velvet Revolver, "Live In Houston"

April 30, 2012 Add Comment

Live memoir of the best contemporary rock collective of the past 20 years. The substantially talented, Scott Weiland-fronted Velvet Revol...

Interview: Dave Mustaine & Dave Ellefson, Megadeth

April 27, 2012 Add Comment

APOCALYPSE NOW?! Megadeth's Dave Mustaine and Deve Ellefson Set Their Clocks for Judgment Day Entitled Countdown To Extinc...

Album Review: Russian Circles, "Geneva"

April 23, 2012 Add Comment

Post-rock is one of those misbegotten terms that serves more to obfuscate than elucidate. As an instrumental three-piece from Chicago pl...

Revenge Recommends: "The Storm" by Big Country

April 22, 2012 Add Comment

The release of Big Country's The Crossing in 1983 was one of those "What the Fuck?!" moments in the history of rock. Inf...

Album Review: Richie Kotzen, "24 Hours"

April 21, 2012 Add Comment

Guitar virtuoso Richie Kotzen erupted onto the rock scene in 1989. His 'signature' custom fender telecaster style riffing has seen h...

Interview: Kip Winger & Reb Beach, Winger

April 21, 2012 Add Comment

Pullin' Power Winger's third album, Pull , provides a shock, as the band renowned for their melodic anthems have taken a left turn ...

Album Review: Black Country Communion, "Black Country Communion 2"

April 15, 2012 Add Comment

Hot-on-the-heels of their impressive self-titled debut comes Black Country Communion 2 . Produced again by Kevin Shirley, 2 cements the An...

Album Review: Robert Plant, "Manic Nirvana"

April 14, 2012 Add Comment

You can't keep a good man down and that applies to Mr. Robert Plant. Percy's back with a follow-up to Now And Zen . This isn’t predi...

Album Review: Queensrÿche, "Dedicated To Chaos"

April 02, 2012 Add Comment

With their 12th studio album, Queensrÿche continue to push boundaries and explore new musical territories whilst retaining an 'unmistak...

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!