Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Jellyfish "Spilt Milk"

June 30, 2019 2 Comments

The colorful San Franciscans obviously don't give a flying fuck about artistic credibility. They write lush pop, rock songs usually ...

Album Review: Julian Cope, "Saint Julian"

June 30, 2019 Add Comment

For a few brief moments around the "Turn of the Eighties," THE TEARDROP EXPLODES seemed like an interesting and promising band...

Revenge Recommends: "Riff Raff" by AC/DC

June 20, 2019 Add Comment

The song that gave its name to Riff Raff the magazine, and through that to this blog. AC/DC at the Glasgow Apollo in 1978. As Bon Sc...

Interview: Lee Dorian, Cathedral

June 03, 2019 Add Comment

The doom metalers offer quake catharsis and carnivore guilt on their final tour All musicians coming to Japan want us to know how...

"My Angel is a Centerfold!!"

June 02, 2019 Add Comment

“Centerfold,” a Billboard number-one 1983 hit by J. Geils Band, is a unique pop anthem in which the speaker mourns the marring of a gir...

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!