Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Distorted Reflection, "Doom Rules Eternally"

May 31, 2024 Add Comment

Well, it turns out this here DISTORTED REFLECTION band might be new, but its founding member, guitarist/singer Kostas Salomidis, ain’t no sp...

Interview: Glenn Kingsmore, Ashanti

May 28, 2024 Add Comment

ASHANTI are a powerful trio who come from Belfast, Northern Ireland. However, although the name will be news to the ears of those of you on ...

Album Review: Diamond head, "Death and Progress"

May 27, 2024 Add Comment

Death And Progress is the album that DIAMOND HEAD should have made to follow up their excellent Living On Borrowed Time debut. Whether or ...

Interview: Gene Simmons, Kiss

May 27, 2024 Add Comment

Alive III catches KISS on live overdrive in the wake of their spine-crunching Revenge album. Joe Mackett gets in on Act III with rock n...

Album Review: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, "Better Days"

May 27, 2024 Add Comment

In the 70s, the bars of New Jersey reverberated to the sounds of SPRINGSTEEN, Van Zandt, and Southside Johnny. In 1991, with Van Zandt (AKA ...

Interview: Tommy Victor, Prong

May 27, 2024 Add Comment

WRITE MINDED New York three-piece PRONG are back with a new 13 track LP called Prove You Wrong . After losing original member, bassist Mike ...

Photos: Yoko Ono doing "Voice Piece for Soprano"

May 05, 2024 Add Comment

In December 2015 I was "privileged" to have a front row space at a Yoko Ono performance at the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. Yoko wa...

Live Review: Blind Melon, Milton Keynes Bowl, 29th May, 1993

May 02, 2024 Add Comment

I like Blind Melon. Their debut album isn't so much about distinctive songs. It's more about a free-flowing vibe; a superior sort of...

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!