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Album Review: Arcade Fire, "Neon Bible"

January 12, 2026 Add Comment

ARCADE FIRE’s breakthrough 2007 record. God, this is awful! Pretentious as fuck, twee, maudlin, vaguely preachy but without ever making eye ...

Interview: Keith Jarrett

July 21, 2025 Add Comment

ZEN IN THE ART OF JAZZ Most musicians anchor their star to some specific quadrant of the musical galaxy, but piano virtuoso and ...

Interview: Kieran Webster "The View"

March 07, 2025 Add Comment

You're 19 or 20 and already people expect you to be a role model. This is the situation faced by members of one of the UK's ho...

Interview: Michael Padget, Bullet for My Valentine

December 09, 2023 Add Comment

Innovation is a fine thing, but it has its drawbacks. For a rock band, trying to create a unique sound that has never been heard before ...

Preview: Muse, 2007

July 22, 2023 Add Comment

Lyrically musing on what’s wrong with the world The great thing about being a teenager, or even a 'twentager,' is that you thin...

Interview: Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne

July 31, 2022 Add Comment

Collingwood (far right) Offbeat band a hit with white-collar songs American popular music is notoriously restrictive in its choice o...

Interview: Maynard James Keenan,Tool

May 06, 2022 Add Comment

Tool frontman: 'I haven't smashed up one hotel room' Maynard James Keenan, singer and lyricist with the U.S. heavy rock ban...

BBC: "HAWKWIND - DO NOT PANIC"

December 31, 2021 Add Comment

A BBC "rockumentary" from 2007 about space rock legends Hawkwind, with contributions from past members (Lemmy, Michael Moorcock, ...

Revenge Recommends: "Bullet" by Grand Avenue

December 12, 2018 Add Comment

Bands like U2 and Coldplay are among the biggest on the planet. Denmark's Grand Avenue, founded in 2001, tick all the same boxes, b...

Interview: Eddi Reader

October 18, 2014 Add Comment

Ex-pop star finds bliss in Scottish folk Sometimes you have to go away to come home. That seems to have been the case for Eddi Reader...

Interview: Jamie Reynolds, The Klaxons

April 30, 2013 Add Comment

Pop Punks Sound the Sirens for New Rave's Trip to Nowhere The old deal whereby naïve, young musicians were taken up by the mid...

Interview: Herbie Hancock

May 30, 2012 Add Comment

Revisiting his Countless Connections When Herbie Hancock brings his quartet to Japan this October, it will be like coming home. Thi...

Interview: Tony Kakko, Sonata Arctica

May 13, 2012 Add Comment

Warming up to Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica There must be something hip about the Arctic, otherwise today's trendiest new ban...

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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!