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The Pimp Fascism of Rihanna

September 05, 2025 Add Comment

Three orifices held together by an intermediate biomorphic mass. I've never really seen what all the fuss is about RIHANNA, who...

Album Review: Pet Shop Boys "Release"

April 30, 2023 Add Comment

After the rush to write them off as has-beens occasioned by their last, dreadful album, it's good to see the PET SHOP BOYS haven...

Live Review: Lady Gaga, Yokohama Arena, 17th April, 2010

August 24, 2021 Add Comment

Lady Gaga is having a sweet, intimate moment. Perched on a piano stool tinkling the ivories in her underwear, she expresses her emot...

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...

Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

February 17, 2020 Add Comment

A 'back to basics' approach is a well known trick of the record trade: a band becomes famous, its music familiar, so it ducks ...

Album Review: Jellyfish "Spilt Milk"

June 30, 2019 2 Comments

The colorful San Franciscans obviously don't give a flying fuck about artistic credibility. They write lush pop, rock songs usually ...

Preview: KT Tunstall

January 29, 2017 Add Comment

Suddenly, Scottish singer-songwriter is a hit 'Girl with a guitar' – what does that say to most people? Back in the Sixties i...

Interview: Miranda Lee Richards

June 06, 2014 Add Comment

"The planets all aligned for music in the sixties." Beauty can be a mixed blessing, especially in the case of a female ...

Interview: Jamie Reynolds, The Klaxons

April 30, 2013 Add Comment

Pop Punks Sound the Sirens for New Rave's Trip to Nowhere The old deal whereby naïve, young musicians were taken up by the mid...

Album Review: Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair "Words of Wisdom and Hope"

January 26, 2013 Add Comment

Jad who? I hear you ask. Well, the lyricist and singer on this quirky collaboration with the Scottish guitar poppers is an obscure offbe...

Album Review: Yeasayer, "Odd Blood"

December 12, 2012 Add Comment

One of the great strengths-slash-weaknesses of American music vis-à-vis its British rival is a relative lack of irony. It's hard to ...

Photo: Namie Amuro

June 20, 2011 Add Comment

This photo of the Japaense pop idol Namie Amuro was taken at the inaugural MTV Japan Video Music Awards on the 24th of May, 2002. The ...

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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!