Congrats to reader Michael Curbo, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Putrid Carnage, or, as I know it, Thanksgiving at the Rosenberg House. Michael wins a bunch of shit ...

Social Distortion is proof that sometimes, you can go home again. As Mike Ness, frontman for the Orange County punk rock ...

Social Distortion has made it to a ”Greatest Hits” mark, and continues to sell out every tour it undertakes. The band hits the Fillmore for a four-night run starting tonight. But what on earth ...

So sad, but, whatever.” Ness said he played his first show sober in 1985 when Social Distortion opened for English punk band 999 in Los Angeles. “I hadn’t been sober since I was 12,” Ness ...

Almost no one walks into a Social Distortion show with switchblade ... readied backstage, roadies hoisted the band’s logo, a fedora-clad skeleton sipping a martini, high into the rafters.

Social Distortion Gears Up for Tour, Talks New Album The short film for “Machine Gun Blues,” the first single from the band’s latest album, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, depicts frontman ...

“Why would we have any other band besides Social Distortion?” Tim Jorgensen, the venue’s general manager, asked rhetorically during a recent interview. “They’re a staple of Orange County ...

By Jim Allen Singer/guitarist Mike Ness was 17 when his group Social Distortion emerged from the first wave of Los Angeles hardcore. Three decades later, the band members are punk patriarchs whose ...