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Preview: Acid Mothers Temple, Tokyo 2025

November 05, 2025 Add Comment

Due to a typhoon, an ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE show we recommended some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personall...

Album Review: Taylor Swift, "The Life of a Showgirl"

October 19, 2025 Add Comment

The dying eggs have taken over ! What are we to make of TAYLOR SWIFT's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl ? The best way is to take a ...

PREVIEW: GLASS BEAMS, TOKYO, OCTOBER 2025

October 17, 2025 Add Comment

GLASS BEAMS are a Melbourne-based trio led by Indian-Australian multi-instrumentalist Rajan Silva. After you get over the fact that they pla...

Interview: Kohhei Matsuda, Bo Ningen

August 02, 2025 Add Comment

BO NINGEN got together in London in the dark old days of Tony Blair and have been cooking up an avant-garde noise rock storm ever since. Rev...

Noel Gallagher's "Magpie Melodies"

July 06, 2025 Add Comment

Noel picking John Lennon's pocket round about the time he wrote "Don't Look Back in Anger" When all's said and done, O...

Tokyo Gig Picks (July/ August)

July 02, 2025 Add Comment

Hikashu July and August are not great months for music in the Tokyo Metropolis. Ironically this is because of the two big music festivals (S...

Live Review: Rod Stewart, Glastonbury, 29th June 2025

June 30, 2025 Add Comment

Glasto is one of the worst music festivals on the planet, and is only worth watching remotely—i.e. on satellite TV — which is what I did. I ...

Riff Raff Page-by-Page: June 1993

June 17, 2025 Add Comment

Hyperlinks to almost all the content in the July 1993 edition of Riff Raff Cover: AEROSMITH/ Price £1:95 Inside cover: Bruce DICKINSON sho...

Tokyo Gig Picks (June)

June 14, 2025 Add Comment

Man With a Mission Never knowingly bettered, our Tokyo Gig Guide is characterised by its incredibly wide range of taste (no narrow comfort ...

Lee Kerslake vs. the Osbournes

May 22, 2025 1 Comment

Blizzard of Cash... The letters page of the January 1992 issue of Riff Raff includes the following fascinating letter from URIAH HEAP and O...

Video: Is Sharon Osbourne Literally the Devil?

May 19, 2025 Add Comment

YouTube channel Rock N' Roll True Stories takes a look at the saga of Jake E. Lee's involvement with OZZY OSBOURNE. In 1982 he was ...

Single Review: Kanye West, "Nigga Heil Hitler"

May 10, 2025 Add Comment

It's been some time since a song has generated as much controversy as KANYE WEST's latest banned-on-every-platform-but-still-all-ove...

Interview: Frank Leone, Genghis Khan

May 02, 2025 Add Comment

Italy is not usually cited as the centre of the Heavy Metal Maelstrom, which means you've got to try all the harder to sell the vibe. So...

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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!