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Robert Forster's writing has appeared in a number of publications, most regularly in the Melbourne-based magazine The Monthly.
Other articles have appeared in London's Time Out and The Sunday Times, Manchester's Debris and Melbourne's Meanjin.
 | 24th August 2016 | Grant & I: Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens | |
 | The Age 3rd July 2015 | David Bowie: the starman we'd been waiting for |  |
 | The Monthly May 2015 | The Perfect Name Did a '70s soft-rock group predict the future of music? | |
 | The Monthly December 2014 | What's the difference between a rock star and a pop star? Australia has produced only six true rock stars | |
 | The Monthly July 2013 | 'Modern Vampires of the City' by Vampire Weekend | |
| The Monthly July 2013 | Ellen Willis's 'Out of the Vinyl Deeps' The critic's collected essays offer a distinctly New York perspective | |
 | The Monthly May 2013 | Songs' 'Malabar' review Twin peaks | |
 | Sydney Morning Herald 13th April 2013 | Rock of Ages | |
 | The Monthly March 2013 | Falling Back To Earth David Bowie's The Next Day | |
 | The Monthly December 2012 | MP Memories of a surfing legend | |
 | The Monthly October 2012 | Slurring and Purring Oh Mercy's Deep Heat | |
 | The Monthly September 2012 | I Told You I Was Freaky Flight of the Conchords | |
 | The Monthly July 2012 | The Vice of a Nation The Voice | |
 | The Monthly May 2012 | Wave of Song Jane Birkin's World Tour Jane Birkin Sings Serge Gainsbourg | |
 | The Monthly March 2012 | Thirty Words The Dirty Three's Toward the Low Sun | |
 | Australia: Story of a Cricket Country November 2011 | In Crashed Walters The blast of Doug Walters on a boy in Brisbane's imagination | |
 | The Monthly December 2011 | Treasure In The Attic The golden age of singer-songwriters | |
 | The Monthly November 2011 | Spin It 30 Albums | |
 | The Monthly October 2011 | Out Of The Bay Girls' 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost' | |
| The Monthly October 2011 | Popular Music Masterpiece Sarah Blasko - 'As Day Follows Night', 2009 | |
 | 1st September 2011 | The Ten Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-11 | |
 | The Monthly August 2011 | Maybe Baby Rave On Buddy Holly | |
 | The Monthly June 2011 | Last Words Mick Harvey's 'Sketches from the Book of the Dead' | |
 | The Monthly April 2011 | To the Heart Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's 'Rrakala' | |
 | The Monthly December 2010 | Scream The Glory and the Madness of being a '60s and '70s Australian Pop Singer | |
 | The Monthly November 2010 | Too Smart To Run Back Allo Darlin's Debut Album | |
 | The Monthly October 2010 | The Infinite Tom DiCillo' 'When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors' | |
 | The Monthly September 2010 | Barnsey's Blues Jimmy Barnes's 'Rage and Ruin' | |
 | The Monthly July 2010 | Rock and Roll Babble On Nick Kent's 'Apathy For The Devil: A 1970s Memoir' | |
 | The Monthly June 2010 | Out On The Weekend Vampire Weekend at Brisbane's Tivoli | |
 | The Monthly May 2010 | The Odd Couple The White Stripes' 'Under Great White Northern Lights' | |
 | The Monthly March 2010 | Distant Sounds 'Community: A Compilation of Hobart Music' | |
 | The Monthly December 2009 | From Mop Tops to Moustaches The Beatles remastered | |
 | The Monthly October 2009 | Beautiful Waste The poetry of David McComb | |
 | The Monthly August 2009 | Setting Herself Apart Sarah Blasko's 'As Day Follows Night' | |
 | The Monthly June 2009 | Lost Women Found The discovery of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and 'Connie' Converse | |
 | The Monthly May 2009 | In Search of a Songwriter Bill Callahan, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Wagons | |
 | The Monthly April 2009 | Thoughts in the Middle of a Career Paul Kelly's 'Songs from the South' | |
 | The Monthly March 2009 | Strangers in the Night Robert Forster on Roberta Flack & Leonard Cohen live | |
 | The Monthly February 2009 | Nature Boy Antony and the Johnsons' 'The Crying Light' | |
 | The Monthly December 2008 | Slippin' AC/DC's 'Black Ice' | |
 | The Monthly November 2008 | Hair Care | |
 | The Monthly October 2008 | The Return of The Wichita Lineman Glen Campbell's 'Meet Glen Campbell' | |
 | Magnet September 2008 | Memoir The making of The Go-Betweens' 'The Friends of Rachel Worth' | |
 | The Monthly August 2008 | Back to College The Hampdens & Vampire Weekend | |
 | The Monthly July 2008 | Seeing The Light Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'Lie Down in the Light' | |
 | The Monthly June 2008 | The Banjo is the New Stratocaster Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson & The Darling Downs | |
 | The Monthly May 2008 | The Uncorking Mark Seymour's 'Thirteen Tonne Theory' | |
 | The Sunday Times 20th April 2008 | Former Go-Between Robert Forster pays tribute to his mate with Evangelist | |
 | The Go-Betweens Songbook Schott Music April 2008 | Introduction | |
 | The Monthly March 2008 | Bowled Over ... The Big Day Out | |
 | The Monthly February 2008 | Sunshine On My Brain The pop genius of The Monkees | |
 | The Monthly December 2007 | Confession & Hits (Hits & Confession) Delta Goodrem's 'Delta' | |
 | Andy Warhol Gallery of Modern Art, December 2007 | Who Loves The Sun: The Velvet Underground and The Go-Betweens | |
 | The Monthly November 2007 | An Afternoon at Rough Trade | |
 | Best Music Writing 2007 Da Capo Press, 2007 | A True Hipster Remembering Grant McLennan | |
 | The Monthly September 2007 | Tales From Pig City The Saints | |
 | The Monthly August 2007 | Embers Re-flamed Meg Baird's 'Dear Companion' | |
 | The Monthly July 2007 | Pop Producer in B-Grade Movie Actress Murder Trial Mick Brown's 'Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector' | |
 | The Monthly May 2007 | Bryan Looks Back Bryan Ferry's 'Dylanesque' | |
 | The Monthly April 2007 | No Weddings And A Funeral Lucinda Williams' 'West' | |
 | The Sunday Times 11th March 2007 | Going for a song Robert Forster on 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' by Creedence Clearwater Revival | |
 | The Monthly March 2007 | Love Goes to a Building On Fire The Shins & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | |
 | The Monthly February 2007 | A West Side Story Casey Bennetto's 'Keating!' | |
 | Mojo magazine December 2006 | Time Out Of Mind | |
 | The Monthly November 2006 | Heroes (Just for One Day) 'The Countdown Spectacular' | |
 | Meanjin October 2006 | The Coronation of Normie Rowe | |
 | The Monthly October 2006 | Modern Times and Times Before That Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' | |
 | The Monthly September 2006 | The 5,000 Spirits or The Layers Of The Onion Joe Boyd's 'White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s' | |
 | The Monthly August 2006 | God Save His Soul The Sleepy Jackson's 'Personality: One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird' | |
 | The Monthly July 2006 | A True Hipster Remembering Grant McLennan | |
 | The Monthly May 2006 | Turn Around You Weren't Invited The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 'Show Your Bones' | |
 | The Monthly April 2006 | The Exford Dregs Augie March's 'Moo, You Bloody Choir' | |
 | The Monthly March 2006 | Worms Don't Dance Cat Power's 'The Greatest' and Beth Orton's 'Comfort of Strangers' | |
 | The Monthly February 2006 | Welcome To The New Neil Master Producer Rick Rubin's Reinvention of Neil Diamond | |
 | The Monthly December 2005 | Nihilistic Ear-worms Franz Ferdinand, the band that changed the rock song | |
 | The Monthly November 2005 | Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) | |
 | The Monthly October 2005 | Soft Touch Falling for Nana Mouskouri | |
 | The Monthly September 2005 | 'Honeycomb' by Frank Black | |
 | The Monthly August 2005 | Red Rage in the Brambles The strange and the strangely familiar lurk in 'A River Ain't Too Much to Love' | |
 | The Monthly June 2005 | Day of the Skinny Insect. Ballads, blues, babes and a man still expressing himself 'B-sides and Rarities' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | |
 | The Monthly May 2005 | Delirium in the Temple 'I Am a Bird Now' by Antony and the Johnsons | |
 | Time Out 11th July 2001 | Hair Care in The Modern Age | |
 | Amateurism 1999 | sleevenotes to CD album | |
 | Debris December 1987 | The Robert Forster Guide to Hair Care | |