Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Herbie Hancock

May 30, 2012 Add Comment

Revisiting his Countless Connections When Herbie Hancock brings his quartet to Japan this October, it will be like coming home. Thi...

Interview: Chick Corea

May 27, 2012 Add Comment

Is it possible to be creative by only emphasizing the positives? Jazz legend and keyboard tinkler extraordinaire Chick Corea certainl...

Album Review: Michael Monroe, "Sensory Overdrive"

May 26, 2012 Add Comment

Hindsight's a wonderful thing, especially if you can remember enough to manifest the best into a 'Sensory Overdrive' of rock n...

Live Review: Paul McCartney, Tokyo Dome, 12th November, 1993

May 26, 2012 Add Comment

Bass player Hamish Stuart with Paul McCartney Politics Cloud McCartney's Success Paul McCartney may not be looking for absolut...

Live Review: The Grip, The Astoria, 1990

May 25, 2012 Add Comment

HOLD TIGHT Undaunted by the lack of followers William leads the Grip charge across the Astoria stage. Coming on like you're pl...

Album Review: Joe Bonamassa, "Driving Towards The Daylight"

May 23, 2012 Add Comment

Guitar god Joe Bonamassa has gone back-to-basics for his 13th studio album. Harking back to the glory days of early '60s rock n'...

Album Review: The BulletBoys, "Za-Za"

May 20, 2012 Add Comment

It might be a case of too little too late for the US dick rockers. Ridiculed in the past for being the poor man's Van Halen, circa D...

Live Review: All About Eve, Royal Albert Hall, 10th April, 1990

May 20, 2012 Add Comment

One Enchanted Eve’ning It’s a stage adorned by the greatest orchestras of the world, its seats graced by royalty. But tonight, All...

Album Review: Whitesnake, "Forevermore"

May 18, 2012 Add Comment

Rumours pertaining to the death of David Coverdale's voice have been greatly exaggerated. A few bars into swaggering opener "Ste...

Interview: Tony Kakko, Sonata Arctica

May 13, 2012 Add Comment

Warming up to Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica There must be something hip about the Arctic, otherwise today's trendiest new ban...

Live Review: The Pogues, Studio Coast, Tokyo, 28th March, 2012

May 13, 2012 Add Comment

It's been six years since The Pogues were last here, so there's a real hunger to see the eight-piece band fronted by the legendary...

Interview: Andy Cairns, Therapy?

May 01, 2012 Add Comment

Andy Cairns faces up to the strange fact that he enjoys rockin' out with Stateside babes... Ulster's Therapy? have come a lon...

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!