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Release Round-Up: Week of October 31

October 31, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Happy Halloween! Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan’s long and extraordinary career are being revisited by Columbia and Legacy Recordings on the eighteenth installment of the artist’s long-running Bootleg Series. Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (1956-1963) arrives on 8 CDs as well as…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

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Adam and The Ants, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Devo, Eternity's Children, Faces, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jerry Lee Lewis, KT Tunstall, Kate Bush, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sheena Easton, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Cell, The Cars, The Who, Thompson Twins

Ants Invasion: Sony U.K. Plans New Singles Set for Adam Ant

October 20, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

Here’s your pass to join the insect nation: Sony Music’s U.K. arm is releasing a new compilation devoted to post-punk heroes Adam and The Ants. The simply-titled Singles, available October 31 in the U.K. and a week later in America, collects 20 tracks on CD or two LPs (pressed on red and white vinyl) that served as A-sides for the ’80s iconoclast. Split about evenly between the classic Ants lineup and Adam’s solo material, it features all the classics you’d expect, from “Kings of the Wild Frontier,” “Antmusic,” “Prince Charming” and “Stand…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Adam and The Ants

Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

April 2, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you’re wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share with you more than four dozen one-offs, archival…

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, CHVRCHES, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

The Weekend Stream: October 21, 2023

October 21, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Adam Ant’s first single, Taylor Swift’s latest single and Tom Petty’s 2010 studio album are all in the mix, plus an unexpected Prince production and a most unusual tribute to The B-52’s. Adam & The Ants, Young Parisians/Lady (Decca) (iTunes / Amazon) Yesterday marked 45 years since the debut release by Adam and The Ants, soon to be one of the…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Pop, Rock

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Adam and The Ants, Deborah Allen, Prince, Taylor Swift, The B-52's, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

So Sweet, It Makes Your Mouth Water: Cherry Red Plans Bow Wow Wow Box

April 2, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

This May, Cherry Red is looking back to New Wave music of the early 1980s with a collection focused on the band Bow Wow Wow. The 3-CD Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980-1984, due May 25, rounds up all of the group’s recordings for EMI and RCA during their heyday. After the breakup of The Sex Pistols, their manager, the controversial impresario Malcolm McLaren, was approached to manage Adam and the Ants. He took the job, but soon convinced three of the band members, Matthew Ashman (guitar), David Barbarossa (drums)…

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Pop

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Adam and The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Malcolm McLaren

Adam & The Ants’ “Kings of the Wild Frontier” to Invade Stores Once More

May 9, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Unplug the jukebox! Adam & The Ants’ classic Kings of the Wild Frontier is coming back as an expansive deluxe edition, to initiate another Ants invasion. Kings of the Wild Frontier remains a pivotal album in post-punk history, as well as a major turning point for Ant himself. Having attained nominal success with his debut Dirk Wears White Sox in 1979, Adam Ant had to start from square one when producer Malcolm McLaren spirited away his original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow. Ant and producer Chris Hughes pressed on, forming a…

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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