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Well then… this is one crossover absolutely nobody had on their 2026 bingo card. 😳🔥 American Christian metal veterans Demon Hunter have reportedly launched legal action involving Netflix and AEG over the enormously successful KPop Demon Hunters name, turning what sounds like the setup to the strangest festival bill imaginable into a full-blown trademark scrap. Yep. Demon Hunter vs KPop...

One songwriter. Two bands. A mountain of massive tunes. And one argument guaranteed to get considerably louder after the third pint. 🍺🔥 There are certain debates that rock fans simply cannot resist. Beatles or Stones? Metallica or Megadeth? Original Guns N’ Roses or the reunion years? And then there’s this absolute pub-table grenade: Oasis or Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds...

The pub giant is cracking down on one of modern Britain’s most irritating habits — and plenty of punters will probably be raising a pint to this one. There are certain sounds you expect when you walk into a British pub. 🍺 Glasses clinking. 😂 Someone laughing far too loudly three tables away. ⚽ A bloke passionately explaining why his...

Another round of worrying news has landed for Britain’s pub scene, and this one involves one of the biggest names behind the bar. Greene King, Britain’s second-largest pub company, has confirmed it is reviewing around 65 pubs for potential sale as part of a major shake-up of its enormous UK estate. Yep. Sixty-five pubs could be changing hands. And while...

There are band reunions. There are massive band reunions. And then there’s Oasis getting back together after 16 bloody years. Now one of the biggest rock ’n’ roll comeback stories Britain has ever witnessed is heading to cinemas in Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger, a new documentary charting Liam and Noel Gallagher’s incredible return for the mammoth Oasis Live...

Facebook, what are you playing at, mun? 😳💷 Just when you thought running an independent website wasn’t already expensive enough, Facebook has apparently found another way of putting basic functionality behind a subscription. While attempting to create a new Facebook post for The Riff Report, we were greeted with a message that made us genuinely stop and stare at the...

Those legendary “12 CDs for a penny” deals are finally heading for the great record shop in the sky. For generations of music fans, there were few things more exciting than getting new music. Before Spotify. Before Apple Music. Before YouTube. Before you could hear virtually any album ever recorded by tapping a screen while sitting on the bog. There...

Apple versus Samsung. iPadOS versus Android. Apple Pencil versus S Pen. It’s one of the biggest tablet scraps around, but we’re not interested in sitting on the sofa watching Netflix or playing Candy Crush while pretending we’re being productive. We’re talking proper photo editing. 📸 More specifically: Adobe Lightroom. Adobe Photoshop. RAW photographs. Concert photography. Festival editing. Exporting images while...

If you’re a photographer who spends weekends wedged against a barrier, dodging crowd surfers while trying desperately not to get a £2,000 camera covered in lager, eventually you’re going to face another problem: How the hell do you edit all those photos afterwards? 😂🤘 For years, the obvious answer was a laptop. MacBook. Windows laptop. Lightroom. Photoshop. Job done. But...

Sometimes the song a band isn’t convinced about ends up becoming the one that follows them around for the rest of their career. For Hoobastank, that song was “The Reason”. 🤘🔥 It became an absolutely massive early-2000s rock anthem, dominated radio, earned Grammy nominations and eventually smashed through the one-billion-view mark on YouTube. Yet according to the story surrounding its...

Well then. MTV has managed to kick the hornet’s nest, throw the hornet’s nest into the pit, and then wonder why everyone wearing a battle jacket looks annoyed. 🤘😂 The nominations for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards have arrived — but one familiar category is conspicuous by its absence. 🎸 BEST ROCK IS GONE Yep. The Best Rock category...

The rock world has lost another absolute legend. Frank Beard, the longtime drummer of ZZ Top and the man whose unmistakable groove helped power the Texas rock giants for more than five decades, has died at the age of 77. Beard passed away on Monday, 17 August 2026, while receiving hospice care at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, surrounded by...

BABYMETAL have given fans a proper look at one of the coolest pieces of vinyl to hit the metal world this year — and yes, mun, we absolutely want one. 🤘💿🔥 SU-METAL, MOAMETAL and MOMOMETAL have appeared together in a new video showing off the spectacular Deluxe Edition of METAL FORTH, including its eye-catching zoetrope vinyl design. And this isn’t...

18 August 1986. Some albums arrive. Some albums become successful. And then there are albums that kick the bloody doors off, take over radio, MTV, bedrooms, pubs, cars and arenas, and become permanently welded into rock ’n’ roll history. Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet was one of those albums. 🤘🔥 Released on this day in 1986, the New Jersey rockers’...

The Prince of Darkness may have left us, but the festival carrying his name is preparing to roar back into life. Ozzfest has officially confirmed that its huge 2027 return will take place at Villa Park in Birmingham — and now attention is turning towards one massive question: WHO THE HELL IS PLAYING? Oh yes, butt. This is getting serious....