Stop the clocks. Spill the beer. Alert the group chat.Green Day are officially heading to Super Bowl LX, and honestly… this is wild in the best possible way 🤯🔥 Yes, that’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool taking their snarling, fist-punching punk anthems to the biggest sporting stage on the planet. From sweaty […]
Right then, butt… this is not a drill. Southern rock heavyweights Black Stone Cherry are bringing the heat back to the UK & Ireland with The Celebrate Tour – and they’re doing something properly special. They’re performing their debut album start to finish. No skips. No shortcuts. Plus a fistful of fan favourites on top […]
A deeper historical dive Pirate radio didn’t just bend the rules of British broadcasting — it smashed them with a crowbar, rewired the system, and dared the establishment to catch up. Long before legal stations embraced youth culture, underground broadcasters were already shaping how the UK would listen, speak, and move to music. ⚓ The […]
Help keep the riffs loud, the coffee strong, and the chaos rolling Right then, butt — let’s talk about something gloriously unglamorous but absolutely essential to keeping The Riff Report Blog alive, kicking, and shouting about bands at irresponsible volumes. 🔥 Running an independent Welsh rock & metal blog isn’t just gigs, pits, and late-night […]
Some gigs are loud.Some gigs are historic.And then there are moments so audacious they permanently bend the DNA of music. September 1969 was one of those moments. Inside London’s sacred musical coliseum — the Royal Albert Hall — Deep Purple weren’t just tuning up. They were preparing to do something that, at the time, felt […]
Muse axe shows due to “unforeseen circumstances” – and the fallout is brutal, butt 🎪💥 This one’s hit like a dropped amp off the main stage. Two UK festivals have cancelled outright after Muse pulled out of their headline slots, citing the ever-mysterious “unforeseen circumstances”. No replacement. No reschedule. Just refunds, stunned inboxes, and a […]
Steel yourselves, metal maniacs, because this one’s proper biblical. A brand-new film titled The Ballad of Judas Priest has officially been locked in for its world premiere in February 2026, and it’s promising to show Judas Priest in “all its metal glory.”No soft focus. No sanitised legends-only edit. Just amps, sweat, leather, and steel. C’mon […]
Don’t You (Forget About Me) 🎸🔥 Hold onto your denim jackets, butt — Black Stone Cherry have gone and done something very tasty. The Kentucky riff-slingers have just dropped their own take on Don’t You (Forget About Me), the legendary anthem originally delivered to the world by Simple Minds — and it absolutely slaps. This […]
This one lands heavy, butt. A sobering reminder that even the most joy-fuelled, nostalgia-drenched nights in rock can brush up against some very dark corners of reality. An 18-year-old has been sentenced after plotting a bomb attack targeting the opening night of Oasis’ long-awaited reunion tour in Cardiff. The plan, according to court proceedings, was […]
Somewhere between a decapitation, a geyser of fake blood, and a cosmic middle finger to genre rules, GWAR have gone and done it again. This time, the Scumdogs of the Universe have wrapped their spiked gauntlets around Pink Pony Club by pop’s current glitter-cannon queen Chappell Roan — and somehow turned it into a triumphant, […]
Every few years, the same question bubbles up from festival fields, pub debates, Facebook comments, and slightly drunk uncles in Queen T-shirts: “Why haven’t Queen ever played Glastonbury?” And every time, Brian May calmly — and very firmly — shuts it down. No rumours. No “maybe one day.” No “never say never.” Just a flat-out […]
Birmingham forged heavy metal. Ozzy Osbourne unleashed it on the world. 🤘🔥 There are cities that host music… and then there’s Birmingham, which straight-up invented a genre in a cloud of factory smoke, detuned riffs, and glorious chaos. Out of that industrial grind rose one man who didn’t just sing heavy metal — he became […]
Sharpen the fangs, butt, because this one’s been a long time coming. After nearly three years away from the road, the gloriously undead rock ’n’ roll supergroup Hollywood Vampires are officially BACK, announcing a massive UK & European tour — and honestly? The scene just got a whole lot louder 🧛♂️🎸 This isn’t a quiet […]
Right then… leave it to Ghost to take one of the most gloriously dramatic synth-pop songs ever written and somehow transform it into a gothic rock cathedral anthem dripping in incense, darkness, and theatrical swagger. 😤🕯️🔥 Because their version of It’s a Sin doesn’t just cover the classic Pet Shop Boys track… It POSSESSES it. […]
We sat down with Hywel Thomas (vocals), Mason Williams (guitar) and Daniel Bryant (drums) to dig into their self-described “controlled chaos” — where it comes from, what scares them, and why this lean three-piece version of the band might just be their most dangerous form yet 😈 No PR fluff. No therapy circle. Just honesty, […]