Performing before an ageing but appreciative crowd, Social Distortion and Bad Religion – two veteran acts of California’s 1980s hardcore punk scene – lived up to their esteemed reputations, delivering ...

An alleged physical altercation between a concertgoer and the lead singer of Social Distortion took place on July 19 at Ace of Spades in Sacramento. Ed Emerson Politics came to blows at a Social ...

“Tonight is the final night of this tour,” observed Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin on stage at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, the group’s second of two performances in the Windy City. “Somehow we ...

In the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, authors Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn get in the pit with influential bands like Social Distortion, ...

Social Distortion may have gotten their start in the late 1970s Southern California punk scene, but the band’s musical lineage and influences go much further back (and spread further out) than the ...