Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Kings X, The Astoria, April, 1990

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THE X FACTOR The inevitable dry ice billows forth from the stage, followed by a suitable doomy intro; Kings X take the stage we...

Album Review: Die Arzte "...presents Die Arzte"

June 18, 2015 Add Comment

What do you do when you’ve been in a great melodic German punk band for 20 years and the language barriers finally start to break down? ...

Album Review: Fight "War of Words"

June 13, 2015 Add Comment

There's something faintly hilarious about an early 80s metal icon who looks like Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame) trying to look...

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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!

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Live Review: Kings X, The Astoria, April, 1990

Album Review: Die Arzte "...presents Die Arzte"

Album Review: Fight "War of Words"

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