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Revenge Recommends: "Israel" by Siouxsie and the Banshees

October 20, 2025 Add Comment

Siouxsie and the Banshees had a long and critically-acclaimed career (1976-1996), but their golden period was the early 80s, especially t...

Album Review: Teardrop Explodes "Kilimanjaro"

March 15, 2021 Add Comment

I've had this nestling, relatively unlistened to, in my CD collection for some time. It's the big debut album by THE TEARDROP EX...

Album Review: GG Allin, "Always Was, Is, and Always Shall Be"

March 14, 2021 Add Comment

Anyone vaguely familiar with GG Allin probably only knows him as that disgusting punk rocker who takes a shit onstage. And, I suppose, t...

Album Review: "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables," Dead Kennedys

September 03, 2020 Add Comment

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables , the debut LP from Dead Kennedys, came out 40 years ago today. It's a darn good record, but...

Revenge Recommends: "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel

December 07, 2013 Add Comment

Games Without Frontiers is a Peter Gabriel song from his 1980 album. It was inspired by the TV game show "It's a Knockout,...

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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!