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Album Review: Air "10,000 Hz Legend"

May 07, 2025 Add Comment

Music originally started as sound representation of visual reality. Approaching Air's new album, 10,000 Hz Legend in these terms,...

Album Review: Muse, "Origin of Symmetry"

February 26, 2024 Add Comment

By 2001 when MUSE released this their second album, the music press had been through at least ten years of drastic downsizing. This meant th...

Album Review: Trey Gunn Band, "The Joy of Molybdenum"

February 23, 2024 Add Comment

With their latest release, The ConstruKction of Light , prog rock monster KING CRIMSON beat themselves with their own weapons. After promisi...

Album Review, Manic Street Preachers, "Know Your Enemy"

November 20, 2023 Add Comment

After years of promising to fulfil their potential, Welsh rockers, the Manics finally came through with a great album in 1998's ...

Preview: Marilyn Manson, Japan, 2001

August 22, 2022 Add Comment

Marilyn Manson has made a career out of waving a red rag at the bull of Middle America's tender sensibilities. His shock rock thriv...

Album Review: Depeche Mode "Exciter"

June 07, 2022 Add Comment

With a name like a dubious aphrodisiac jelly, the latest effort by the ever-boyish Depeche Mode, promises more of the 'pervy' ly...

Album Review: David Byrne, "Look Into the Eyeball"

February 19, 2022 Add Comment

In an article in the New York Times , David Byrne once said that he hated World Music, surprising for someone whose own music incorpo...

Interview: Glenn Tipton, Judas Priest

October 03, 2021 Add Comment

HELL IS HOME FOR PRIEST If heavy metal music is a dinosaur, then Judas Priest must be the Tyrannosaurus Rex of the genre. Despit...

Interview: Zakk Wylde

August 30, 2021 Add Comment

Wylde Man Of Rock There are some axemen whose names will be carved in the face of solid rock for time immemorial, and Zakk Wylde wi...

Album Review: Radiohead "Amnesiac"

March 06, 2016 Add Comment

Radiohead must think they signed a Faustian contract when they became corporate music fodder. Kid A , with its absence of easy-to-whis...

Interview: Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals

May 11, 2015 Add Comment

Having worked with one of the Beatles, it shouldn't be too surprising that Gruff Rhys, the singer/guitarist of eclectic Welsh roc...

Interview: James Dean Bradfield. Manic Street Preachers

March 05, 2014 Add Comment

OVERCOMING MANIC DEPRESSION The summer festival season is very much about the adventure of youth, as teenagers escape from pa...

Album Review: Travis "The Invisible Band"

November 06, 2013 Add Comment

There used to be a time when the Brits made all the heavy rock, while the Yanks turned out winsome, countryish pop-rock. Now all the heav...

Interview: Phil Lewis, LA Guns

February 06, 2013 Add Comment

Phil Lewis n' Tracii Guns All Fired Up Think of Hollywood Vampires LA Guns and one automatically remembers great rock 'n...

Interview: Marilyn Manson

March 11, 2011 Add Comment

COLUMBINE HARVESTER Love him or loathe him, you just can't ignore him. That old cliche certainly rings true with Marilyn Manson. Rap mi...

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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!