Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Accept & MSG, Detroit, October 2022

October 24, 2022 Add Comment

I attended the "Monsters of Teutonic Rock" festival last week. Okay, no such festival exists, but I did catch ACCEPT last Saturday...

Video Review: Queensrÿche, "Operation Live-Crime"

October 15, 2022 Add Comment

Fucking multiple orgasm time of what!? Since I heard that QUEENSRYCHE were going to rel ease this vid excellence, I've been constantly ...

Interview: Walter Trout

October 14, 2022 Add Comment

Blues guitarist WALTER TROUT has just released his second album entitled Prisoner of a Dream , hot on the heels of his debut Life in the Jun...

Monarchy in the UK: The Full Queen Discography (Even the Adam Lambert Bits)

October 08, 2022 Add Comment

While QUEEN isn’t a band that needs another person singing their praises, I think, like a lot of bands that have become household names, 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!