Revenge of Riff Raff: 2013

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The Pimp Fascism of Rihanna

September 05, 2025 Add Comment

Three orifices held together by an intermediate biomorphic mass. I've never really seen what all the fuss is about RIHANNA, who...

Interview: Dave Lee Roth

January 06, 2025 Add Comment

THE VAN HALEN ICON IS HOT FOR SENSEI Veteran Van Halen frontman and rock legend DAVID LEE ROTH has called Tokyo home for nearly a year. It m...

Interview: Richard Pinhas

March 30, 2024 1 Comment

It isn’t easy being a guitar prophet. When I reach RICHARD PINHAS, the storied French musician begs off the interview. He’s feeling rough, h...

Interview: John Lydon, Public Image Ltd.

January 24, 2024 2 Comments

Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? You can take the punk out of London, but you can't take London out of the punk! ...

Album Review: Black Sabbath, "13"

January 10, 2024 1 Comment

13 heralds a very welcome return of the old-school signature sound reminiscent of 'vintage' Black Sabbath. The synths and thea...

Preview: Japandroids, Japan, 2013

September 20, 2022 Add Comment

With a name like Japandroids, it must only have been a matter of time for the up-and-coming indie rockers to gravitate towards these sh...

Album Review: Saxon, "Sacrifice"

March 16, 2022 Add Comment

With a band like SAXON, who have been around since the year dot, you know what to expect. In their case, classic NWOBHM with a few tweak...

Photos: PiL in Tokyo 2013

February 27, 2021 Add Comment

Some images taken at PiL's Tokyo gig on 6th April, 2013. This took place at Shibuya AX, a venue that was situated at the edge of...

Audio Interview: John Lydon (Part One)

June 14, 2020 Add Comment

Part one of a 2013 telephone interview with John Lydon. Topics include why he waited so long to release "This Is PiL," the...

The Myth of Marley

October 13, 2013 Add Comment

Marley: Shot in Jamaica; endorsed by White rock royalty Bob Marley is Jamaica, and everybody in Jamaica loves Marley and has always ...

Jessie's Girl: The Angst of an Alpha

September 23, 2013 Add Comment

In 1981, Australia-born soap opera star Rick Springfield first burst to the top of the American pop charts with Jessie's Girl , a t...

Album Review: "The Velvet Underground & Nico" by The Velvet Underground & Nico

August 26, 2013 Add Comment

Imagine if you got two distinct but not very good albums and spliced them together. The result might actually sound better, or at least...

Album Review: Neil Young, "Harvest"

August 23, 2013 Add Comment

In 1972, a strange thing happened: Americans, a people who up until that time had thought of themselves as a collective John Wayne, almo...

The Wail of the Cuckold

June 23, 2013 Add Comment

The lyrics of most modern-day pop songs are dippy, dopey, silly, sappy, and altogether crappy. But every so often, we have an anthemic ...

The Fly Column: Bono's Unfeasibly Large Ego

May 04, 2013 1 Comment

One of the strangest album covers in rock history was 2009's No Line On The Horizon by U2. The sleeve's picture was actually a ...

Album Review: Steve Lukather, "Transition"

March 16, 2013 Add Comment

Renowned for his flashy six-string work with Toto , Steve Lukather has opened a new chapter with his seventh solo release. Lyrically ...

Album Review: Snakecharmer, "Snakecharmer"

February 23, 2013 2 Comments

Snakecharmer's debut is one of those rare releases that will have classic rock fans firmly believing they have died and gone to heav...

Art: Atsushi Sakurai

January 23, 2013 Add Comment

A career of caterwauling Japanese "visual-kei" rock has not been in vain. At last the Muses have condescended to immortalize ...

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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!