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Album Review: Alcatrazz, "No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll"

July 17, 2021 Add Comment

Alcatrazz are like the YARDBIRDS of the 80s, giving a start to YNGWIE and STEVE VAI, with GRAHAM BONNET on vocals. I've always found it ...

"My Angel is a Centerfold!!"

June 02, 2019 Add Comment

“Centerfold,” a Billboard number-one 1983 hit by J. Geils Band, is a unique pop anthem in which the speaker mourns the marring of a gir...

Revenge Recommends: "New Age" by Blitz

June 08, 2014 Add Comment

Another working class British band from the punk/ post-punk era with a "Nazi-esque" name, Blitz (as in blitzkrieg) with their stra...

Revenge Recommends: "The Storm" by Big Country

April 22, 2012 Add Comment

The release of Big Country's The Crossing in 1983 was one of those "What the Fuck?!" moments in the history of rock. Inf...

Revenge Recommends: "Grendel" by Marillion

October 06, 2011 Add Comment

The best progressive rock bands can hardly lie content with simple subject matter. Their musical dexterity and munificence require muc...

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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!