Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Scott Ian & John Bush, Anthrax

September 22, 2014 Add Comment Edit

A THOUSAND POINTS OF NOISE Anthrax have been through a turbulent time lately, what with the departure of singer Joey Belladonna....

Interview: Fish

September 06, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Singer/ songwriter, Fish, has just broken a lengthy period of enforced silence with his new album, "Internal Exile." The past ye...

Interview: Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne

September 05, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Offbeat band a hit with white-collar songs American popular music is notoriously selective in its choice of topics. This is somethi...

Song by Song: "The Joshua Tree" by U2

September 02, 2014 Add Comment Edit

The Joshua Tree was U2's most important album. It marks the point at which they became a global brand as big as The Beatles or The...

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!