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YOSHITOMO NARA'S STRANGE INSPIRAL CARPETS FIXATION

December 19, 2025 Add Comment

Yoshitomo Nara is one of the top three or four contemporary Japanese artists, painting pop art pics of cute but gnarly children with l...

KISS Immortalised in Japanese Art (Not by Their Music, LOL)

August 05, 2020 Add Comment

In this episode of the Kong Show, a special treat for KISS fans. Elizabeth Hilderbrand talks to Kamasami Kong about the Ukiyo-e Proje...

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 ...

Art: Portrait of Nicky Wire

December 04, 2012 Add Comment

A portrait of Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers. It is loosely based on a photo taken by Mitch Ikeda. The painting is by the fam...

Art: Tribute to Amy Winehouse

September 08, 2011 Add Comment

Whatever her merits and demerits as a singer and a human being, Amy Winehouse was a truly iconic figure and will be sadly missed. Foll...

Art: Rock Girls by Toman

July 02, 2011 Add Comment

This picture of a Japanese high school girl with nekomimi playing rock bass is by Toman. one of the artists I met at Tokyo Design Fest...

Art: Lemmy

February 14, 2011 Add Comment

An affectionate caricature of "rock n' roll" god Lemmy by Nina Kouprianova. Note the skull serving the role of heavy metal...

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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!