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Preview: No Edits, Japan, 2026

March 28, 2026 Add Comment

The key to getting a good gig in Tokyo is to not to go for the jaded big names that have been dragging their brands around for several decad...

Edwin's "Almost as Intense as My Life" Top Ten Albums of 2025

January 28, 2026 Add Comment

I know the Revenge of Riff Raff faithful have been wondering where their awesome album and show reviews have gone! Where are those meanderi...

Preview: The Genbaku Onanies, Tokyo 2026

January 22, 2026 Add Comment

Since 1982, the GENBAKU ONANIES (rough translation: "The Atomic Pussies") have been carrying the flame of J-punk, bouncing short, ...

"Fender Bender," The Attempt to Degender the Strat

January 13, 2026 Add Comment

Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain rocking the "Hello Kitty" Strat Back in the Zeroes, US guitar-maker Fender felt ...

Video Review: Nelson, "After the Rain"

January 11, 2026 Add Comment

When I was handed this videola and told to review it, I thought, "Yeah, witht a combine harvester." Well, such is not the case....

Video Review: Enuff Z'Nuff "Enuff Z'Nuff"

January 11, 2026 Add Comment

A collection definitely for the true Z'nuff fan and anyone else who likes to see the real side of a band rather than the shiny commercia...

Preview: Kneecap, Tokyo (2026)

December 16, 2025 1 Comment

Tokyo debut! The Belfast bad boys have certainly made the headlines this year. Next January, they at long last bring their terrorism-tinged ...

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...

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...

PREVIEW: VIAGRA BOYS, JANUARY 2026, TOKYO

October 17, 2025 Add Comment

Variously described, VIAGRA BOYS sound mainly like dance punk/ surf music to me. They also sound the way you'd expect a "punky...

How Did Our Site Look in 2012? (Our War with Google and Facebook)

September 17, 2025 Add Comment

Over the years we have radically changed the look of this site several times as our "tech skills" have evolved. So how did ou...

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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!