Eight years is an eternity in rock 'n' roll. Think of all that's happened in punk music since 1996 and it's astonishing. That was the date that influential and celebrated west coast punk act Social Distortion released their last proper studio album. 1996. A September in fact. In 1996 we were a few years after Dookie and diving headfirst into the third-wave ska revival. This is long before Blink-182 spawned the many-headed mall punk hydra. [more]