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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 ...

Interview: Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree

July 30, 2021 Add Comment

The main dichotomy in popular music has always been between simplification and elaboration. In the 1950s, the popularity of rock represent...

Interview: Richard Archer, Hard-Fi

March 07, 2021 Add Comment

British rock band Hard-Fi Lives Up to the Hype Obsessed with the need for short-term profits rather than long-term gains, the British...

Tapescript Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5

June 04, 2020 Add Comment

On the 12th of January 2008, I did a 20-minute 'phoner' with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. This was for an article I was wri...

INTERVIEW: BRUCE DICKINSON, IRON MAIDEN

December 11, 2018 Add Comment

Iron Maiden digs into '80s hits for 'legendary' tour Bruce Dickinson, front man for heavy metal legends Iron Maiden, i...

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...

Preview: Kula Shaker, Japan 2008

January 21, 2012 Add Comment

Rock is supposed to be about freedom and expression, but over the years it has become increasingly subject to a creeping campaign of pol...

Preview: The Who, Japan, 2008

September 14, 2011 Add Comment

It's surprising. Japan is a country that loves rock legends, but for the Who – a group often mentioned in the same breath as the ...

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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!