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Hold onto your studded belts and smear that eyeliner extra thick, because YUNGBLUD has just pulled off an achievement rarer than finding clean loos at Download Festival — the lad has hit #1 in BOTH the UK and the USA! 🤘🇬🇧🇺🇸 Proper global domination mode unlocked. 🤯 The First EVER US #1 for Yungblud — TIDY AS YOU LIKE Our...

What’s occurring, butt?! The mighty Pinkpop Archive have only gone and dropped professionally-shot, pristine, HD footage of Metallica’s full 2008 Pinkpop Festival performance — and tidy as you like, it’s an absolute monster. This isn’t some grainy Nokia-era bootleg.This is broadcast-quality, ear-melting, neck-wrecking metal history unleashed straight into your eyeballs. ⚡🤘 And yes…We’ve got the full setlistANDthe official video linkRIGHT...

What’s occurring, butt?! Strap in, because the mighty Biffy Clyro are officially back in the creative bunker — and things are about to get weird, wonderful, and apparently… “much less Biffy.” Yes, you read that right. The trio known for math-rock chaos, emotional scream-alongs, and riffs sharp enough to strip paint off the Valleys’ bus stops are switching things up....

You ever see something so perfectly, stupidly brilliant that you just stop and go:“Yep… that’s the most Manchester thing I’ve ever witnessed”?Well tidy up your pint, butt, because this is it. Spotify have slapped a giant Liam Gallagher tambourine on top of a building in Manchester like some kind of rock ’n’ roll Bat-Signal — and honestly, the city has...

Today, butt, we turn the amps all the way up to 11 for a day that actually matters — International Day of Disabled People. A day to celebrate strength, identity, resilience, community, creativity, and every single disabled person who keeps this big chaotic world spinning. 🌍🔥 And let’s be honest… the music scene wouldn’t be HALF as powerful, emotional, innovative,...

🎧aka: That time of year when Spotify exposes your deepest, darkest musical goblin habits for all of Instagram to see 😈📱 Tis the season, butt — the season of being publicly shamed by a Swedish algorithm for listening to Slipknot at 3am, Celine Dion in the shower, and that one weird lo-fi Zelda remix you swore you only played ONCE...

🤘(Our first without you onstage… but always in our hearts and blasting through our speakers 🫶) Ozzy Osbourne — the bat-biting, reality-TV-rewriting, Brummie-born godfather of heavy metal — turns another legendary year older today, born 3 December 1948, and The Riff Report is raising a pint (and maybe a cross necklace, though preferably not between our teeth) in his honour....

By The Riff Report — where the amps are loud, the tea is strong, and the news comes with a cheeky grin. 🎸 THE METAL MESSIAH OF BURSLEM HAS BEEN HONOURED! What’s occurring, butt?! The bloke responsible for turning Burslem into a sacred pilgrimage spot for Motörhead fans has only gone and bagged a prestigious award — and he’s “shocked”...

What’s occurring, butt?! Flea — the slap-bass sorcerer, chaos gremlin of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and all-round musical menace — has only gone and dropped a bombshell hotter than a Californian heatwave. The man is releasing his debut solo album, and no… it’s not a bass shred-fest.It’s not funk.It’s not punk.It’s not weird psychedelic nonsense involving socks and questionable...

Gather round, butt — because this is not a drill.The most beloved man in Hollywood, the walking, talking embodiment of “sound as a pound”, Keanu Reeves, is bringing his grunge band Dogstar to the UK & Ireland for a run of shows ahead of their highly anticipated performance at Download Festival. That’s right.John Wick’s putting down the guns and picking...

🔥 The Full Riff Report Blog Post Edition 🔥 🤘 With extra chaos, cheek, Welsh slang & a dollop of madness 🤘 🎸🐍 THE JUNGLE JUST GOT LOUDER, MUN! Well slap me with a soggy hammock and feed me fermented fish guts — JACK HAS ONLY GONE AND GOT HIS LETTER! ITV have officially declared him ready for the mayhem, misery...

The Riff Report Blog | @theriffreportuk Alright butt… gather round, zip up your parkas, grab your tambourines, and get ready to squint menacingly at the horizon — because Liam Gallagher has just dropped the four most chaotic words in British music. “BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENT.” And just like that, the entire UK has collectively gone:“WHAT’S OCCURRING THEN, MUN?!” 🤣🔥 Let’s break...

🎬Buckle up, butt — we’re about to dive headfirst into the cinematic swamp where legendary rock stars, pop icons, and full-on chaos merchants wandered onto film sets and delivered cameos so bizarre they deserve their own Razzie category. Proper fever-dream energy incoming, mun! 🤣🍿🤘 1️⃣ Michael Jackson – Men in Black II Agent M reporting for duty… and for what,...

🤘Here’s your full-fat, riff-soaked, Welsh-powered Riff Report blog post! 🎸🤦‍♂️ THE IDIOTS HAVE RETURNED… AGAIN Beavis and Butt-Head – the two greatest intellectuals of our time (fight me) – made their massive comeback in 2022 on Paramount+ after years buried in the pop-culture graveyard. We got a new movie (Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe), fresh episodes, and the beautiful...

A Full Riff Report Chaos Special — tidy as you like, mun! 🤘🏴 🎨 CARTOON BANNER (TEXT FOR YOUR DESIGNER / REQUEST IF YOU WANT IT GENERATED!) OZZY DROPS A ROGER WATERS DISS T-SHIRT — ROCK’S PETTIEST FEUD JUST WENT SUPERNOVA, MUN!🦇🔥🎸💥 🎤 INTRO: WHEN ROCK LEGENDS FEUD… MERCH HAPPENS You know rock beef has gone nuclear when it stops...