Brett Callwood

Who is Brett Callwood?

Brett Callwood is an English journalist, copy writer and author, currently living and working in Colorado. He is the editor at the Yellow Scene magazine, and formerly the music editor at the Detroit Metro Times.

Since beginning his professional writing career in 1999 with the publication of a review of hardcore band dBh in Kerrang!, Callwood has contributed to a number of notable rock and heavy metal magazines, among them Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Record Collector, Terrorizer, Alternative Press and Metal Edge. His work has also appeared in publications catering to alternative lifestyles and subcultures, such as Bizarre, tattoo magazine Skin Deep and horror magazine Fangoria. Until recently, he wrote for the Detroit alternative weekly newspaper the Metro Times, and he has also been published in detroit.metromix.com and the Detroit Free Press. During the early part of 2010, he worked on the news desk at Crain's Detroit Business.

To date Callwood has authored two books, both biographies of groups instrumental in establishing the Detroit garage rock scene of the late 60s / early 70s.