Revenge of Riff Raff

Preview: No Edits, Japan, 2026

March 28, 2026 Add Comment

The key to getting a good gig in Tokyo is to not to go for the jaded big names that have been dragging their brands around for several decad...

Album Review: Ministry, "Psalm 69"

March 18, 2026 Add Comment

A real barrel of laughs this one. How to describe it? Tyrannical repetitive rhythms, a hornets’ nest of grungy, buzzing guitars, distorted v...

Live Review: Winger, The Astoria, 5th July, 1991

March 16, 2026 Add Comment

The place is buzzing by the time we get there. The throng have arrived to check out these transatlantic pond hoppers. As soon as the lights ...

Interview: Kelly Nickells, LA Guns

March 16, 2026 Add Comment

GUNNING FOR GLORY Time to get the cloves of garlic and start sharpening those wooden stakes because LA GUNS have returned, baring their teet...

Revenge...?

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!