SonicNet Contributor: Eric Arnum
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name:
email: 		Eric Arnum
earnum@rcn.com
LINKS:
  • "Smashing Pumpkins New Pajama Look", Jan. 14, 1996
  • "The Cure's Hauntingly Memorable Halloween Gig,", Nov. 3, 1997
  • "Cherry Poppin' Daddies Swing Latin-Style," May 8, 1998
  • "Dave Matthews Explains Himself in 'VH1 Storytellers' Taping," Mar. 25, 1999
  • "Kula Shaker Drops the Mysticism and Rocks," Aug. 15, 1997
  • "Radiohead Rocks New York Ballroom (Free Condoms Anyone?)," April 14, 1996
  • "Stop the Presses! Oasis' Liam Gallagher Smiled!" March 17, 1996
    • BIO
    Eric Arnum is a contributing editor for SonicNet Music News and Addicted to Noise. His first review, of a Smashing Pumpkins show in a small Times Square theater, ran in AtN in January 1996. In those early days of the Web, Arnum approached AtN editor Michael Goldberg with a "will work for tickets" offer, a strategy he successfully employed for reviews of Britpop headliners Oasis, Radiohead, the Cure, Moloko, Spacehog, Swervedriver, and Kula Shaker in the New York area.

    Arnum, whose own tastes range from 80s goth bands to New York rappers, has traveled from Hollywood to Amsterdam on SonicNet assignments. He's gone to Lincoln Center to see Marilyn Manson speak and he's gone to a converted Lower East Side synagogue to see Dave Matthews tape a VH1 Storytellers concert.

    Embracing the New York philosophy that "half of life is just showing up," he's covered events such as CMJ Expo, the Intel New York Music Festival, the Internet Music Expo, and even the opening of a Bottega Veneto handbag shop.

    Arnum was born on the mean streets of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and spent his teenage years catching a buzz downtown. By day he is a computer journalist but by night he prowls the clubs of the East Village in search of cheap thrills and chilled cider.

    In recent years, Arnum has fallen in with a bad crowd of all-night techno ravers and MP3 traders (list available upon request). He is a two-time survivor of the Glastobury Festival in England (1995 & 1997, the "mud year") and is planning his first Woodstock gate-crash for later this summer.

    [ Wed., April 7, 1999 10:54 PM EDT ]