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
The recent passing of music impresario Malcolm McLaren has led to a lot of emotions. Some hate McLaren for his self-aggrandizing ways and mismanagement of The Sex Pistols' supernova career. Others laud him for his contribution to music history as not only a tastemaker and agent provocateur, but as a semi-successful musician as well. There's something to be said about some of that music, too. McLaren's debut LP, 1983's Duck Rock, has been championed - thanks to both the quality of the music and