Gina Arnold

Who is Gina Arnold?

Gina Arnold is a rock critic whose articles have appeared in Spin, Rolling Stone and various free weeklies.

She grew up in Palo Alto, California. After attending UCLA for one year, she transferred to UC Berkeley.

She was a frequent contributor to Metro Silicon Valley from 1996 to 2002, including a weekly column named after The Replacements album All Shook Down that ran in 2001 and 2002. Arnold called The Rolling Stones “ugly, lecherous and old” and argued that the “the Replacements have influenced current music much more than the Stones have.”

She wrote a book about the 1990s alternative zeitgeist in "Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana," which was followed by a sequel of sorts, "Kiss This: Punk In The Present Tense". Arnold remains one of the more prominent white females to have worked in the field of rock criticism.