Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Joey Belladonna, Anthrax

June 28, 2012 Add Comment

Currently touring the US on the ambitious 'Clash of the Titans' tour, ANTHRAX and co-headliners SLAYER and MEGADETH, along w...

Album Review: U2 "Zooropa"

June 23, 2012 Add Comment

According to Bono, Zooropa was a snapshot rather than a rock'n'roll record. Recorded quickly, there is a further shift in the so...

Album Review: The Temper Trap, "The Temper Trap"

June 23, 2012 Add Comment

London-based Australian soft-rockers, The Temper Trap weren't happy with the production of their 2009 debut album Conditions , feeli...

Preview: Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic, 2009

June 22, 2012 Add Comment

Summer Sonic to make some noise Largely inspired by English role models, the Japanese Summer music festival season has pretty much se...

Album Review: John Wetton, "Raised In Captivity"

June 20, 2012 Add Comment

British singer/songwriter John Wetton has treaded the boards with rock royalty and as such his sixth solo album is the latest gem in a c...

Preview: Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic, 2008

June 20, 2012 Add Comment

Summer rock festivals offer different vibes With summer music festivals becoming an increasingly popular part of the music calenda...

Album Review: Great White, "Elation"

June 19, 2012 Add Comment

Great White's pure passion for music hasn’t faltered despite 'personnel' trials and tribulations. The band's 12th studio ...

Album Review: Mr. Big, "What If..."

June 18, 2012 Add Comment

Given the acrimonious nature of Mr. Big's implosion 15 years ago, the cover artwork of a flying pig is a succinct jibe at the fact ...

Interview: Tony Clarkin, Magnum

June 17, 2012 Add Comment

A Right Royal Welcome Veteran rock stalwarts Magnum will shortly release their eighth studio album Goodnight LA upon us. After year...

Album Review: Rush, "Clockwork Angels"

June 13, 2012 Add Comment

In their time Rush have produced some of the finest recorded moments in rock history, be it guitar-driven hard rock, their late '70...

Video Review: Iron Maiden, "En Vivo"

June 05, 2012 Add Comment

There's something about Latin American metal audiences that makes for great live vids. AC/DC had already used the good people of Bu...

Album Review: Accept, "Stalingrad"

June 03, 2012 Add Comment

Comeback albums are often like middle-aged men getting new Porsches: i.e. something that bands do just to prove they've still got th...

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!