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First things first – how long are you gonna be standing like a muppet outside the shop before you even sniff a t-shirt? Well, good news for all you Definitely Maybes out there: reports say that queues have been surprisingly chill. In fact, one fan in London claimed the wait time was... drumroll please... "not at all". Yep, no queues,...

Get ready for an Iris-level emotional night, butt, because the Goo Goo Dolls have just been announced as the headliners for the 2025 Carousel Ball! Held annually in Denver, Colorado, this glitzy, star-studded event isn’t just about tuxes and tunes — it’s now entering its 39th year of raising vital funds for type 1 diabetes research. 💙🩺 The Carousel Ball...

"I can’t afford the luxury of getting that emotional right now" The Queen of Country has always worn rhinestones on her sleeve and heart in her lyrics — but for the first time in decades, Dolly Parton has hit the brakes on songwriting. Following the death of her beloved husband, Carl Dean, Dolly has revealed that she’s put her pen...

Written in eyeliner and spilled beer by The Riff Report 🍻 Alright, let’s settle this like rock fans do — LOUDLY, BIASEDLY, and with absolutely no regard for decency or subtlety. 🤘 Back to the Beginning wasn’t just a farewell — it was a fire-breathing, riff-shredding tribute to the gods of heavy metal. Everyone from doom lords to glam warriors...

From haunting harmonicas to acid trips gone wrong, here’s the Sabbath stuff that’ll melt your brain like a fuzz pedal in the sun… 1. They Were Nearly Called "Earth" 🌍 Before becoming Black Sabbath, the lads gigged around Brum under the name Earth. They changed it after people kept mixing them up with another local band. Imagine a doom anthem...

on’t Look Back in Anger, butt – just get in the bloody queue. The Live ‘25 Oasis reunion might already be The Importance of Being Idle-shattering news, but now… they’ve only gone and dropped six official Oasis Pop-Up Stores across the UK and Ireland, haven’t they?! That’s right, you beautiful parka monkeys — whether you’re in Manchester, Cardiff, London, Birmingham,...

One man’s scam is another fan’s meltdown… "Slip inside the eye of your scam..." Well, this is peak 2025 madness, isn’t it? While thousands of Oasis fans were getting their bucket hats ironed and parka hoods fluffed, some absolute weapon was out here flogging fake tickets for the reunion gigs in Cardiff. And yes, butt – he’s been arrested. We’ll...

Liam & Noel Gallagher Staying in Separate Hotels on Oasis Tour – Brothers Plan to ‘Pace Themselves’ and Dodge Another Bust-Up Because what’s more rock 'n' roll than sibling beef and separate Travelodges? 🎸🥊 By The Riff Report Team // staging.theriffreport.co.uk/ Ey up, lads and lasses! Oasis are back on the road, the crowds are buzzing, the pints are flowing…...

Alright you beautiful bunch of riff-loving rebels – it’s time to put down the pint, pick up your phone, and help a cause that means the absolute world to our community. You’ve moshed for it. You’ve cried for it. You’ve screamed “We Wear Black” with your fists in the air for it. Now it’s time to click for it. 💥...

(A.K.A. The Day Metal History Rewrote Itself... Again) What. A. Day. 🖤 From the first thundering riff to the final, tear-stained “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” the Back to the Beginning concert wasn’t just historic – it was completely unhinged in the best possible way. Villa Park turned into a cathedral of chaos, and if you blinked, you might’ve missed something that...

Whitby’s Gothic Heart Was Ripped Out (Temporarily) By The Riff Report | 🏴 #WeAreSophie | 📍 Whitby “What’s Occurring, Whitby?!” We were tamping when we heard this. Over the last 24 hours, the alternative community has been reeling after the sudden removal of Sophie Lancaster’s memorial bench in Whitby — without any warning, any consultation, or even a heads-up to...

Right, listen up emos, goths, nu-metal warriors and people who still rock a MySpace profile pic. We need to talk about a crime. A musical injustice. A sonic betrayal that’s haunted the shadows since 2003… Amy Lee — our eyelinered goddess of doom and drama — has just admitted that there’s one Evanescence track she regrets not releasing as a...

You might think the only thing Ozzy Osbourne and Yungblud have in common is black eyeliner and chaos… but c’mon butt, you’d be wrong. Sure, one’s the Prince of Darkness with a bat fetish, and the other’s a Gen-Z punk-rock pinball in Dr. Martens – but deep down, these two might just be cut from the same leopard-print cloth. Let’s...

🎤 A love letter to the Lords of Doom from the Queen of Modern Rock 🎸 If you’ve ever seen Lzzy Hale command a stage like an absolute beast in leather and eyeliner, scream her lungs out on "Love Bites (So Do I)", or rip through a solo with Halestorm like the world’s on fire… you can bet your last...

In the year 2025, while the world’s arguing over whether AI can write novels, paint portraits, or make a better lasagne than your nan, the rock world just stood up, flipped both horns, and told AI bands to take their fake solos and shove 'em where the sun don’t shine. That’s right. One brave, badass, riff-loving streaming platform has officially...