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...Dogs Out" (the title of the album as well as the single) has sprinted up the charts and into the Top 10 faster than Marion Jones. A fixture on MTV and Nickelodeon, the tune has excited kids, annoyed parents and scored in the major leagues; it was chanted by thousands of Mets fans when their team clinched the National League championship last week. The song and the group have stoked thoughts of an island-music resurgence to match the influence of Harry Belafonte in the '50s and Bob Marley...
...local band Seventeen and Irish group the Young Dubliners (see our album review) perform this weekend at CollegeFest at the Hynes Convention Center, which has apparently made one Crimson arts executive (unnamed, initials SC) all excited because there'll be-wait for it-the presence of two people from MTV's The Real World...
...tinged strains of Straits standards like "Walk of Life" without any of the latter's grip. The album benefits from Knopfler's breezy guitar licks, especially in "What It Is," but the whole effect comes across as something better suited to a National Public Radio road show than to MTV or any other non-niche venue...
...held up because of favorable word of mouth, and because we in the media have played catch-up with a movie most of us ignored in the beginning. Kirsten Dunst appeared on "The Tonight Show" early in the film's run. Other members of the cast scored spots on MTV. Entertainment shows recycled footage from a bouncy press junket that had been staged prior to opening weekend at UCLA with legions of real cheerleaders. Also, of course, the cheerleading movie got lucky. Like all monstrously profitable films, it arrived quite by accident at a time when audiences were...
...experimental mainstream bands of the mid-nineties, not applicable to the Blur-vs.-Oasis Battle of the Brit Bands. "High and Dry," "Just" and "Fake Plastic Trees" (immortalized in Clueless as Cher makes that "whiny college radio song" remark and shuts off the stereo) became instant radio (and MTV) hits...