BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:567@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T230000 DTSTAMP:20240402T154248Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/social-distortion-and-bad-r eligion/ SUMMARY:Social Distortion and Bad Religion DESCRIPTION:SOCIAL DISTORTION \n\n"Ness is one of the most underrated pure songwriters in rock." – Los Angeles  Times \n\nHere's how you know yo u've made it in the music business: You've stayed strong for three  decad es on your own terms\, on your own time\, by your own rules\, and over tha t time your  influence has only grown. Each of your albums has been stron ger than your last. You've been  brought onstage by Bruce Springsteen\, b ecause he wanted to play one of your songs. You've  seen high times and l ow ones\, good days and tragic days\, but every night you give 100%\, and   every morning you wake up still swinging.  \n\nThis is the short vers ion of the Social Distortion bio — the long version could be a 10-part m ini series. For many years\, the band have all but trademarked their sound \, a brand of hard  rockabilly/punk that's cut with the melodic\, road-te sted lyrics of frontman Mike Ness. Their  searing guitars and a locomotiv e rhythm section sound as alive today as they did in '82\, as do  Ness' h ard-luck tales of love\, loss and lessons learned. "The most common thing I hear is\, 'Man\,  your music got me through some hard times\,'" Ness sa ys. "And I just say\, 'Me too.'"  \n\nHard Times And Nursery Rhymes (pro duced\, for the first time\, by Ness himself) is the band's  most recent release. Social Distortion experienced a significant amount of firsts in 2 011. For  starters\, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes debuted at #4 on the B illboard Top 200 and was the  highest debut that the band has yet seen. H ard Times was also the #1 Independent Album and  the #2 Modern Rock/Alter native Album week of release. The band also made their late night  televi sion debut when they performed "Machine Gun Blues" on Jimmy Kimmel Live\, and later  played for Conan on Hard Times’ release date. Taking their s uccesses to the road\, Social  Distortion played European festivals inclu ding Reading and Leeds for the first time. They also  booked their first tours of Australia and South America. And finally\, Social Distortion play ed  Lollapalooza\, Austin City Limits Festival\, and Coachella – all of these for the first time.  \n\nA release of new music is forthcoming in 2024. \n\nSocial Distortion’s patented mix of punk\, bluesy rock n’ roll and outlaw country — while also  stretching the boundaries of thei r signature sound is a blend of potent power that appeals to all  ages. T hey are honored to have been able to reach as many people as they have so far. "I write  songs for myself\, and I hope that other people will like them too\," Ness says. "I think every  record you make is showing people what you've learned over the past few years. It's showing  people\, 'This is what I know.' "  \n\nNow in their fifth decade\, Ness and Social Dis tortion have officially achieved one of the most  non- punk things possib le: They've failed to burn out. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nBAD RELIGION\n\ nAside from essentially defining the California half-pipe punk blueprint\, Bad Religion has defied the usual trend-shifts or values-ditched ubiquiti es of the usual punk band storyline and morphed along with challenging alb um after challenging album amid astoundingly consistent touring\, retainin g their core audience while roping in subsequent generations of anxiously energetic kids. \n\nThe band has long settled into the current lineup who have arguably enacted to most muscular Bad Religion to ever grace a stage : Greg Graffin (vocals) and Jay Bentley (bass) join Brian Baker (guitarist since ’94)\, guitarist Mike Dimkich\, and drummer Jamie Miller. \n\nBa d Religion is in an almost singular position in the history of punk. Havin g formed right on the heels of the original explosion\, they led the west coast arm of hardcore’s birth\, adding their melodic riffs\, zooming har monies\, and viciously verbose lyrical punch to the basic bash of hardcore . Then the band continued to expand their template through the ‘80s and into the indebted “neo-punk” sound of the early ‘90s\, and weathered the questionable dichotomies of the “alternative rock” era by doing w hat they’ve always done – releasing explosive album after album to con sistent acclaim from fans and critics. \n\nAnd if you’re positive there is no way they could keep doing the same thing all these years\, you’d be right. They haven’t. They’ve continued to throw songwriting and pro duction wrenches into the works so’s not to bore themselves or their nev er-diminishing following. They have released 17 studio albums to their eve r-widening audience. \n\nThe band’s rep as socially aware thought-provo kers can obscure the fact they’ve remained one of the most viscerally po werful live bands on the planet\, remembering it’s the beats and riffs t hat get your ass off the couch in the first place. \n\nOf course\, being stuck to the couch was sometimes inescapable during our last terrible year s of COVID fear. So once again leaning into their smarts\, Bad Religion co ncocted an online run of eight\, chronologically curated\, streaming live show docuseries\, recorded at the Roxy in Hollywood as COVID reared its fa ngs. Two seasons of career-highlighting\, fan-thanking ballyhoo\, featurin g jaw-dropping reminders of the band’s development in the face of often simplistic skate punk pigeonholing. \n\nWhen he’s not stomping on some festival stage in front of thousands somewhere\, singer Greg Graffin is a professor and author who has released numerous books on history and person al survival. He even garnered the prestigious Rushdie Award for Cultural H umanism from the\n\nHarvard Humanist Chaplaincy in 2008. In 2022 Greg rele ased his memoir of growing up in the Punk scene\, Punk Paradox. \n\nAnd i n 2021\, Bad Religion released its own long-awaited autobiography\, Do Wha t You Want: The Story of Bad Religion\, credited to\, of course\, the whol e band. While propped up on the band’s egalitarian legend\, its focus is the long and moshing road of a band who probably would’ve laughed if yo u’d told their 20-something selves they’d be celebrating their 43rd an niversary. Laughed\, then strapped on their guitars and jumped out on stag e again. \n\nBeing Bad Religion is what they do best\; they see no reason to take their foot off the pedal any time soon. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2023/12/REV_BAD_4x6-1.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR