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Album Review: Foreigner, "Unusual Heat"

October 30, 2023 Add Comment

After a gap of some four years, Mick Jones and the guys have returned to thrill and delight all you AOR junkies. But will it be the same wit...

Album Review: Drive She Said, "Drivin' Wheel"

March 26, 2023 1 Comment

Imaginatively entitled Drivin' Wheel , this is the American AOR band DRIVE SHE SAID's debut album. As I figured it was drivin...

Live Review: Dare, The Astoria 18th October, 1989

August 07, 2020 Add Comment

Mancunian act Dare are pretty new on the live circuit. Up to date they have headlined numerous club shows following an extremely succe...

Album Review: Joe Bonamassa, "Dust Bowl"

May 07, 2014 Add Comment

Following the big rock sound of Black Country Communion, the concept behind Bonamassa's new solo album Dust Bowl was to move thi...

Album Review: Giant, "Last of the Runaways"

November 14, 2013 Add Comment

Out of America come Giant with their A&M debut. It's a typically American effort, with much of the material drawing on many AOR...

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 ...

Album Review: FM, "Aphrodisiac"

June 14, 2013 Add Comment

Album Review: Journey, "Eclipse"

October 01, 2011 Add Comment

With the belated success of Don't Stop Believing , Arnel Pineda is always going to be fighting an uphill battle to step out of Steve Pe...

Album Review: Winger, "Pull"

June 17, 2011 Add Comment

Winger have toughened up. Pull sports a harder, crunchier riffing edge than its predecessor In The Heart Of The Young which spawned th...

Album Review: Mr. Big, "Bump Ahead"

March 20, 2011 Add Comment

After the success of To Be With You it would be easy for Mr. Big to follow a formula. With Bump Ahead any comparisons must rest on the pre...

Live Review: Shy, The Astoria, 27th November, 1989

February 10, 2011 Add Comment

BON (SHY) Tonight a half-full auditorium awaited the return of Shy, who've spent the last couple of months or so in the States...

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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!