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Album Review: Oasis "Heathen Chemistry"

July 02, 2025 Add Comment

Ideally music reviews should serve two purposes: (1) to introduce new, obscure music, and (2) to save you (and the record companies) a bi...

Maxi Single Review: Kishidan "One Night Carnival"

November 06, 2023 Add Comment

I only ever watch the Japanese pop charts to see the videos of cute girl singers. But, just occasionally, among all the derivative p...

Album Review: Venus Fly Trapp, "Grotesque"

June 16, 2023 Add Comment

As long as humanity continues to reproduce by the M+F=C formula (Male + Female = Children), transvestites, transsexuals, and the other v...

Album Review: Pet Shop Boys "Release"

April 30, 2023 Add Comment

After the rush to write them off as has-beens occasioned by their last, dreadful album, it's good to see the PET SHOP BOYS haven...

MTV Japan’s Local Globalization Awards

December 22, 2021 Add Comment

Oasis It's generally agreed that the first MTV Japan awards held at Yurakucho's International Forum in late May [2002] were...

Interview: Ozzy Osbourne

August 02, 2021 Add Comment

Diary of a not-so-mad man "I'm not the Antichrist, I'm not the Iron Man, I'm not the kind of person you really think ...

Album Review: Gomez "In Our Gun"

June 12, 2016 Add Comment

It's postulated that once the Universe stops expanding, it will start contracting and that Time itself will start running backwards....

Album Review: Die Arzte "...presents Die Arzte"

June 18, 2015 Add Comment

What do you do when you’ve been in a great melodic German punk band for 20 years and the language barriers finally start to break down? ...

Interview: Miranda Lee Richards

June 06, 2014 Add Comment

"The planets all aligned for music in the sixties." Beauty can be a mixed blessing, especially in the case of a female ...

INTERVIEW: ROB HALFORD

February 04, 2013 1 Comment

At a time when the driving forces in music seem to be club culture and computers, heavy metal can look quite unfashionable. But, in i...

Album Review: Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair "Words of Wisdom and Hope"

January 26, 2013 Add Comment

Jad who? I hear you ask. Well, the lyricist and singer on this quirky collaboration with the Scottish guitar poppers is an obscure offbe...

Photo: Ayumi Hamasaki

December 17, 2012 Add Comment

Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki arriving at the 2002 MTV Japan Awards. Photo: C.B. Liddell

Photo: Namie Amuro

June 20, 2011 Add Comment

This photo of the Japaense pop idol Namie Amuro was taken at the inaugural MTV Japan Video Music Awards on the 24th of May, 2002. The ...

Photo: Rob Halford

February 09, 2011 Add Comment

Rob Halford biting a copy of "Riff Raff Metal Magazine" in Tokyo during the Crucible Tour, 2002. Photo: Colin Liddell

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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!