Revenge of Riff Raff: Dan Grunebaum

Home / Dan Grunebaum

Showing posts with label Dan Grunebaum. Show all posts

Interview: Gaz Mayall, The Trojans

May 20, 2026 Add Comment

SKA-ING THEIR WAY INTO HISTORY Singer, bandleader, DJ, impresario and fashionable bloke about town Gaz Mayall says he's at the "hub...

Interview: Karl Hyde, Underworld

January 20, 2026 Add Comment

If nothing else, their iconic soundtrack for Trainspotting —and in Japan their sets at Fuji Rock and Rainbow 2000—assure UNDERWORLD a spot i...

Interview: Keizo & Marya, King Brothers

December 29, 2025 Add Comment

ROCK N' ROLL, DEMOLISHED, AND NOT PUT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN If America’s JON SPENCER and Japan’s GUITAR WOLF took roots rock ’n’ roll and ...

Interview: Barney Greenway, Napalm Death

October 15, 2025 Add Comment

THE FOUNDERS OF GRINDCORE JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE IT EASY Formed in Birmingham in 1981, NAPALM DEATH pioneered a sub-genre known as grindcore—...

Interview: Martin Blunt, The Charlatans

September 07, 2025 Add Comment

UK INDIE-ROCKERS JOIN THE TRAVELING HACIENDA CIRCUS JOY DIVISION, NEW ORDER, Factory Records, The Haçienda… the pop pedigree of Peter Hook ...

Interview: Esie

August 05, 2025 Add Comment

THE FORMER MODEL IS EQUAL PARTS PIXIE AND OPERATIC HOWLER The career of a fashion model-turned-singer usually lasts about one album—just lon...

Interview, James McNew, Yo La Tengo

June 18, 2025 Add Comment

James McNew is back to pick up a new album and do some shopping. It's been three years and a change of record labels since I last sat do...

Interview: Tony Hadley, Spandau Ballet

May 16, 2025 Add Comment

SPANDAU BALLET FRONTMAN TRAIPSES DOWN MEMORY LANE The last time global hitmakers SPANDAU BALLET toured Japan, the group’s role as fashion le...

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: Hotei

February 12, 2024 Add Comment

ROCK ICON WON'T REST ON JAPANESE SUCCESS It's the morning after his long anticipated New York gig, and Tomoyasu Hotei seems relaxed ...

Interview: Anna Calvi

October 10, 2021 Add Comment

English-Italian diva pens torch songs for the new millennium With her hard-to-pin-down sound, bee-sting lips and bottomless blue ey...

Interview: Iggy Pop

April 01, 2021 Add Comment

Iggy's inner artist The heroin addiction, the public self-flagellation and penis-baring, the rumors of bisexuality...these are on...

Interview: Akihito Morimoto, Kazuto Maekawa, Electric Eel Shock

September 03, 2020 Add Comment

Stories occasionally filter back about Japanese bands making a go of it abroad. Following the success of New York’s alternative hip-hop...

Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom )

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!