{"id":1813,"date":"2011-03-18T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2011-03-18T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:53:15","slug":"social-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/social-distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCIAL DISTORTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SOCIAL-DISTORTION-M-Review-December2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1814\" title=\"SOCIAL-DISTORTION-M-Review-December2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SOCIAL-DISTORTION-M-Review-December2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SOCIAL-DISTORTION-M-Review-December2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SOCIAL-DISTORTION-M-Review-December2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>OCIAL DISTORTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Epitaph]<\/p>\n<p>The nihilistic Mike Ness of <em>Mommy\u2019s Little Monster<\/em>, Social Distortion\u2019s 1983 debut, has long since disappeared. The singer and guitarist is still a tough guy, but ever since embracing country and rockabilly influences in the mid-1980s he\u2019s played a more sympathetic sort of antihero: the ruffian with the heart of gold. On Social Distortion\u2019s first album since 2004, Ness remains very much in character. He still trades in rootsy, anthemic punk rock, although there are a few change-ups this time. Instrumental opener \u201cRoad Zombie\u201d hints at trouble at the drag strip, while \u201cCalifornia (Hustle and Flow)\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Take It With You\u201d feature gospel singers, echoing \u201970s Stones. Ness delivers his usual Les Paul crunch and earnest lyrics, singing about hard living and the path to redemption. Lines like \u201cI\u2019m here to take my stand with a guitar in my hand\u201d would be laughable coming from anyone else, but Ness just about pulls them off. \u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL DISTORTION Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes [Epitaph] The nihilistic Mike Ness of Mommy\u2019s Little Monster, Social Distortion\u2019s 1983 debut, has long since disappeared. The singer and guitarist is still a tough guy, but ever since embracing country and rockabilly influences in the mid-1980s he\u2019s played a more sympathetic sort of antihero: the ruffian with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1334,1341,1340,1339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}