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Rod Whitfield, Journalist

Rod Whitfield

Rod Whitfield is a retired musician and long-time music writer. He joined his first band on drums way back in 1987, playing in myriad original rock acts before hanging up the sticks and retiring in 2015. In 1995, he joined Forte Magazine, Geelong’s premier street press magazine, as a journalist and has not stopped writing about music since. He has written for The Music, UK Prog Magazine, Beat, was The Buzz Magazine’s chief rock and metal writer for eight years, and has worked for countless online publications and zines. 

Since retiring from the original band scene, he has become a novelist, and at the time of writing he is completing work on his fourth book, the third work in a trilogy based on an upcoming fantasy/combat/adventure video game, as well as designing the narrative of the game itself. Keep an eye out for the release of Brides of Vampira in the coming years. 

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Opus Of A Machine - 'Stray Fire'
"Takes you on an atmospheric and powerful voyage of epic proportions."
Features / Music
Turning The Tape On With Tape/Off
"We're guys who grew up listening to Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Pavement."
Features / Music
Polaris' 'The Mortal Coil' Has Exceeded All Expectations
"Everyone was like, 'Wow, you're going to be in America for three to four weeks!', and we were thinking to ourselves, 'Yeah, but it's actually going to be closer to seven or eight.'"
Features / Music
Make-Ups, Break-Ups, Family Stuff & Life On The Road
"Everybody goes through those kind of patches in life, everybody goes through dark times."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Like Thieves, Khan, Red Lotus
"Guitar player Oden Johansson peels off the nimble-fingered licks with particular zeal."
Features / Music
Keep An Eye Out For Silverstein Being Tourists In Your City
"I know [Comeback Kid] are going to bring a crazy amount of extra energy and we're going to have to be on our game to keep up with them."
Features / Music
'At The End Of The Day They're Fuckin' Pop Tunes, Man!'
"I reckon if we had our way, we would have gone, 'Right, it's finished, there you go!' But I don't think that's really how they like to run things. We've been sitting on this for around a year."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Red Bee - Silent Enemy
"The title track would have hit single written all over it if Australian radio actually gave new music like this a crack."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Contortionist, Sikth, Alithia, Transience
"The one and only slight disappointment of their set is the absence of this scribe's favourite track by The Contortionist: 'Relapse'."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Lulu Raes - LULU
"Swooning, easy, breezy pop that is easily digestible without being saccharine."
Features / Music
Touring With Teen Heroes & Being Empowered By Fans
"We've been going to Australia since 2010 and the first time we went we had, like, 30 to 50 people showing up."
Features / Music
Mobile Devices Are 'More Powerful' Than Record Companies
"I don't give a fuck about being a millionaire or any of that dumb shit, I just want to make music."