C’mon butt, like it was ever gonna be anything else! 🙌 According to fresh stats from music licensing legends PPL, Don’t Look Back In Anger has officially been crowned the most played Oasis track of the 21st century across UK radio and telly 📻📺 – and honestly, we’re not shocked, just smugly nodding with a […]

Punk prince. Northern noise-maker. Now venue owner?! YUNGBLUD just dropped a bombshell on London’s rock scene by announcing he’s opening his own live music venue later this year – and where he’s putting it is the stuff of absolute legend. Welcome to 20 Denmark Street, Soho…AKA the old stomping ground of guitar gods, rock icons, […]

My Chemical Romance Send Fans Into Full-Blown Frenzy With Cryptic Dagger Drop 🔪“A dagger, a dagger, please fetch me a dagger…” Well, consider us fetched, stabbed, and emotionally spiralling, butt. 🖤 Emo overlords My Chemical Romance have officially done the thing — dropped a cryptic post that’s got the entire black parade marching straight into […]

Police have slapped a weekend-long dispersal order around Heaton Park as Oasis fans descend in their thousands for the band’s massive comeback gigs. 👀🎸🌳 📍 What’s Occurring? Greater Manchester Police have mapped out a huge exclusion zone (shown in red on the map you uploaded) surrounding Heaton Park from Friday to Sunday, including parts of […]

“Lo-Files” drops Friday, 11.07.25 – get ready to chill the hell out, butt. That’s right – Sheffield’s own scream-slinging, pit-starting metalcore monsters Bring Me The Horizon have just hit fans with the curveball of the year: a full-blown lo-fi album of their biggest bangers. Yup. The band that gave us chaos anthems like “Can You […]

Hold onto your harmonicas, butt — the poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll is coming back to town. Yep, BOB DYLAN — the man, the myth, the walking songbook of 20th-century rebellion — has just announced a brand-new UK and Ireland leg of his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour for late 2025. 🤯🔥 Presented by […]

Strap in, ya little weirdos – the prince of punk-pop pandemonium is smashing down the cinema doors worldwide with his new documentary “YUNGBLUD. ARE YOU READY, BOY?”, and we are absolutely foaming for it. 😱🎬 Global rebel, lipstick warrior, and energy incarnate YUNGBLUD is dragging us straight into the heart of his madness — and […]

— and it’s gonna be louder than your local dive bar on a Friday night. 🔥🎤 YUNGBLUD, the punk-pop preacher of chaos and catharsis, has officially announced his first full-length documentary film, Are You Ready, Boy? — and it’s not just a backstage montage or a “look how famous I am” puff piece. This one’s […]

Well, that escalated quickly… Thousands of fans were already lining up, pint in hand, hair brushed to Electric Light Orchestra perfection, ready to shout “Mister Blue Sky” at full tilt — only to be met with the most dreaded of concert plot twists: CANCELLED. 💔 Yep, Jeff Lynne’s ELO were set to bring the orchestral […]

(From Viking pillagers to corpse-painted pop icons, these are the Swedish legends who made us bang our heads until the meatballs flew across the room.) 1. Opeth – The Prog Shape-Shifters 🌀 Opeth aren’t just a band; they’re a musical journey through nightmares, dreams, and everything in between. Mikael Åkerfeldt built his empire on progressive death metal epics like Blackwater […]

A tale of madness, metal, and mud – only on The Riff Report 🎸🛠️🍻 🎬 FLASHBACK: WALES, CIRCA 2010 – “I’VE GOT A FIELD, A DREAM, AND A GENERATOR” Once upon a damp time in the Welsh Valleys, two brave souls looked up at a remote, wind-battered mountain in Ebbw Vale and thought: “Yep, let’s […]

Lewis Capaldi Fans Face Chaos, Carnage & Crash Screens 🎤💥(Spoiler: Ticketmaster lost. Again.) Oh, Ticketmaster… you absolute gobsh*te. At exactly 9:00am, the Lewis Capaldi fandom — caffeinated, click-ready and armed with dreams of weeping through “Before You Go” — descended upon your cursed site. What followed was less ‘romantic ballad’, more WWE Royal Rumble meets […]

Amazon’s UK Prime Day sale has dropped – and your record collection is about to get LOUDER. 🤘 It’s that beautiful time of year again when Amazon decides to chuck a load of rock, metal, prog and alt classics into the discount bin – and we go absolutely feral trying to grab them before they […]

A power chord-powered tribute from The Riff Report Blog“Forget the solos – feel the rhythm.” – Malcolm Young (probably, in a grumble) 🕯️ NOVEMBER 18, 2017 – THE ENGINE ROOM SHUTS DOWN On November 18, 2017, we lost the heartbeat of hard rock. Malcolm Young, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of AC/DC, died peacefully surrounded by […]