Revenge of Riff Raff: 2006

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Interview: Debbie Harry, Blondie

April 14, 2023 Add Comment

Blondie fake their retirement to sell tickets in Japan. Naughty! Blondie says goodbye with greatest hits tour After a career b...

Album Review: Various, "Peace Not War Japan"

May 31, 2022 Add Comment

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE (OR AT LEAST BUY THE CD) Nowadays, we live in a time of constant crises and conflict. As soon as one flashpoint in th...

Preview: Evanescence, Japan 2007

October 23, 2021 Add Comment

DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO A SMOOTH SOUND That 'difficult second album' is one of the clichés of rock music, and like most clichés it ju...

Interview: Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree

July 30, 2021 Add Comment

The main dichotomy in popular music has always been between simplification and elaboration. In the 1950s, the popularity of rock represent...

Interview: Richard Archer, Hard-Fi

March 07, 2021 Add Comment

British rock band Hard-Fi Lives Up to the Hype Obsessed with the need for short-term profits rather than long-term gains, the British...

Preview: KT Tunstall

January 29, 2017 Add Comment

Suddenly, Scottish singer-songwriter is a hit 'Girl with a guitar' – what does that say to most people? Back in the Sixties i...

PREVIEW: JAMIE CULLUM, JAPAN, 2006

January 14, 2015 Add Comment

Being a jazz musician is a mixed blessing. You get to be cool, but, in return, you are expected to remain underappreciated and known ...

Preview: Ornette Coleman, Japan, 2006

December 04, 2014 Add Comment

Some jazz legends have a big impact at the time, but as the years pass their influence gradually diminishes until it is forgotten. Th...

Interview: Richard Archer, Hard-Fi

January 08, 2014 Add Comment

FROM CCTV to MTV: HARD-FI VISIT THE HOME OF THE HI-FI "We've sold a million records and we've done five nights at the B...

Preview: James Blunt, Japan, 2006

June 02, 2013 Add Comment

Blunt Object 2005 was James Blunt's year. His debut album Back to Bedlam , a mix of bittersweet folk pop and blue–eyed soul wa...

Preview: The Arctic Monkeys, Japan, 2006

January 04, 2013 Add Comment

MONKEY BUSINESS The big record companies and media conglomerates are worried. Or at least they want you to think that they are. The...

Preview: Coldplay (in French)

January 18, 2011 Add Comment

Coldplay se concentre sur le commerce équitable C’est quoi cet engouement des rock stars pour sauver le monde ? Bono est le croisé de...

Preview: Coldplay, Japan, 2006

September 25, 2010 Add Comment

Coldplay keeps focus on fair trade image What is it with rock stars trying to save the World? Bono has his 'End World Poverty...

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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!