Grief, loyalty, loss — and the most radical refusal in rock history 🤘🖤 On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on the planet. Frontman of Led Zeppelin.Stadiums flattened. America conquered. Cash pouring in faster than the amps could cool.He wasn’t just famous — he was mythologised. A so-called Golden God […]
There was a time, kids, when computers didn’t pretend to fix themselves in the background while quietly making things worse. There was a time when you decided it was defrag day. Once a week. Maybe Sunday night. Maybe after tea. You’d crack your knuckles, fire up that glorious slab of late-90s wizardry, and sit back […]
The Cure guitarist remembered as a “warm-hearted great friend” 💔🎸 Sad news has rippled through the alternative and goth rock world today, mun. Perry Bamonte, guitarist and longtime collaborator with The Cure, has died aged 65. The band confirmed the news in a heartfelt tribute, describing Bamonte as a “warm-hearted great friend” whose presence went […]
Leftovers in the fridge, telly glowing, chaos paused. This is the one, mun. Boxing Day is a strange, beautiful limbo. The turkey’s gone cold, the Quality Street tins are already 80 percent purple ones, and no one knows what day it is anymore. Perfect conditions, then, for diving headfirst into Stranger Things and letting the […]
Massive love to every single one of you for the support, the shares, the comments, the good vibes – honestly, you lot keep this whole riff-powered circus rolling. Proper grateful, mun. Now it’s time to chuck the feet up, whack on Stranger Things, and attempt the ancient ritual of “I’ll just watch one episode” before […]
Right, butt… hold onto your tights because the multiverse has officially glitched. Tony Hawk has just made his ballet debut in The Nutcracker with the Golden State Ballet, and somewhere a halfpipe and a pirouette have just locked eyes and nodded in mutual respect 🤝🔥 This isn’t satire. This isn’t a late-night sketch. This is […]
Album Review | The Riff Report 🤘 Right then butt, strap in. This one hits like a leather-jacketed headbutt in a thunderstorm. Tailgunner’s Tears in the Rain is the sound of traditional heavy metal refusing to politely age, smashing through the door instead, pints flying, amps humming, denim battle vests flapping in the wind. 🍺⚡ […]
Today we raise a pint, a fist, and probably the volume knob to celebrate Shane Greenhall – riff architect, groove commander, and one of the key engines powering the Crows’ relentless rise 🖤🎸 From sweat-soaked club floors to roaring festival fields, Shane’s playing has helped soundtrack some of the finest modern Welsh rock moments going. […]
Right then butt, tighten your boots and hide the weak lager, because Misery Goblin are here to drag Irish metal back into the mud, teeth-first, snarling and loving every second of it. This is no polished, posh prog nonsense. This is grit-under-the-fingernails, sweat-on-the-ceiling, goblin-brained heaviness. 😈🤘 If you like your metal loud, ugly, honest, and […]
Alright butt, Christmas has staggered off into the distance clutching a leftover turkey sandwich, the telly’s still shouting about sales, and your bank balance is already in a pit of despair… which can only mean one thing. It’s Boxing Day, mun. 🥊🎄And from our slightly chaotic, riff-soaked corner of Wales, we just wanted to lob […]
“The Australian music industry is parasitic” – and they’re done 💔🔥 Well this one’s gone down like a dropped amp on concrete, butt. Melbourne noise terrorists Private Function have announced they’re breaking up after nine years of beautiful chaos, sweat-drenched gigs, and zero-time-for-your-bullshit punk rock. And in classic Private Function fashion, they didn’t bow out […]
Right. Gather round, you beautiful lot, because this might be the most rock ’n’ roll scam attempt the internet has coughed up all year. Earlier today, a message allegedly from Liam Gallagher landed in someone’s Instagram inbox with all the subtlety of a tambourine to the face. “Hello this is Liam Gallagher” “Oasis needs $50 […]
Another one bites the dust. Cardiff’s We Are One Festival has officially been scrapped before a single amp was plugged in, with organisers confirming the event was cancelled weeks ahead of its planned January launch due to financial difficulties. The festival was due to run over two days starting January 31st, promising a winter injection […]
Because nothing kills Christmas dinner faster than blast beats and blasphemy. Christmas is meant to be about peace, goodwill, and pretending you like your relatives. Metal, however, has other ideas. So before you hand over the Bluetooth speaker to your uncle who still thinks Metallica sold out with The Black Album, here’s your official Riff […]
Alright butt, gather round. This one’s got riffs, refunds, and a Christmas choir lurking where a wall of death should be. 🤯🎄 In one of the strangest ticketing slip-ups of the year, StubHub has apologised after mistakenly listing a Lamb of God show at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium… when the venue was actually hosting Behold the […]