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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. 

Features / Music
Simutaneously Drumming For Paramore While Keeping A Side Project Alive
"The more I did, the more I liked to involve mates around town. We have so many talented friends, so I just invited people."
Features / Music
'Piecing Together A Sonic Jigsaw'
"Last year we got an offer to tour with Megadeth and that's not the kind of thing you turn down!"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tesseract - Sonder
"They ultimately exist in a genre of one."
Features / Music
Constructing Setlists From Facebook & Twitter Requests
"We just want to put on the show that everybody wants to see, especially when we go to the more far-flung places like Australia. We want people to come to the show and feel like they got what they wanted out of it."
Features / Music
The Plot In You Have Turned A Fresh Start Into A Fresh Sound
"Fearless [Records] kinda hit us up out of nowhere, and it all turned around. Had they not come around I don't know if we would have stayed a band much longer."
Features / Music
Underoath Aren't Pretending To Be Something That They're Not
"During the writing of the record, I actually got clean. I got rid of all the hard drugs for the first time in 12 years, and I'm a better musician and songwriter for it."
Features / Music
Ten Year & Six Albums Into His Career, Newtown Faulkner Reckons He's 'Hit The Ground Running'
"There's no point in editing the bejeezus out of things, because it doesn't sound human anymore. It's a strange kind of battle, because I did edit things until they were perfect, and then I pulled back a bit. At that point, it sounded so right."
Features / Music
You Need To Dig A Little Deeper Than 'You Broke My Heart Baby' If You Want To Rock'N'Roll
"I think rock'n'roll is the loud, crazy voice of music. In fact, I feel that if you're too afraid to be talking about some important, honest shit, then maybe you shouldn't be in it."
Features / Music
Fuelled By Personal Moments Of Connection
"'Those personal moments of connection where someone will say - even something mundane like, 'I brush my teeth to this song every morning'... that's all we need.'"
Features / Music
Greenleaf Will Have New Material On Their Oz Tour, But Arvid Jonsson Will Have To Sing It While On Crutches
"I woke up the next day after being at work the whole day, the foot was blue!... I wish I had a better story, like a polar bear eating my foot or something."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Phoenix, Cleopold
"Frontman Thomas Mars is a walking, dancing, singing phenomenon, prancing around the huge stage, getting into the crowd, crowd-surfing."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird - Electric Brown
"It sounds like an album for 2018 audiences that was written and recorded in 1973. No mean feat."