PREVIEW: COP SHOOT COP

White Noise by the band COP SHOOT COP is a record we received recently, and who I shamefully admit are a band I have never listened to until now. Sometimes compared to THE SWANS or EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, their urban noise is rather unique as they don't use guitars, just bass, sampling, and percussion. On Big Cat here in the UK, this sonic assault is more aligned to industrial styles than metal or hard core. Unfortunately their upcoming UK Tour was postponed as two of the four members of this New York band are currently facing charges of carrying concealed weapons and being drunk and disorderly. Sound like nice chaps.

Marion Garden
Riff Raff
January 1992

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!