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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
The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Rod Whitfield
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mammal, Rifleman, Figures
Features / Music
Don't Worry, Everything Everything Will Be Alright
"People won't really pay for music anymore, and they won't pay for film and all the rest of it. The internet's changed everything."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Engine Three Seven, Lung, Tell Amarosa, Burn City
"Are they still just as good?... the answer is yes."
Features / Music
Flint Eastwood On Her Love For Detroit
"Yes, Detroit has been through some really shitty situations and we've been through a lot of crap, but the people themselves are super-connected and super-positive."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: sleepmakeswaves, Rosetta, Oolluu
"This band's music is just so very alive on record and in a live setting receives a massive, extra dose of highly combustible rocket fuel."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Verticoli - Free Will
"They are just doing their own thing, and in pursuing a sound that is so uncool they are managing to be cool as fuck"
Features / Music
Post-Rock, Post-Metal, Post Plastic Tracks & Weaponised Hooks
"It's about the lived experience of being human, stripping back the layers of grime that we find ourselves enmeshed in this hyper-capitalist hellscape we live in."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: El Colosso, Seims, Oolluu
"Their set is a rockin', rollin', rollicking good time."
Features / Music
Good Friends, Good Hooks & A Lively 'Conscience'
"It's pretty much all I've ever wanted to do. It's really the only career goal I've ever had, so I don't know what it feels like to have something else."
Features / Music
'It Really Hit Home How We Mean Something To These People'
"We now have a duty to do this, this is the reason we do this, not just that we're some dickheads from Campbelltown who play 20-minute songs."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress
"It's unlikely we'll see this line-up touring again, ever, and it's a true privilege to witness."