Social Distortion’s Mike Ness on Kicking Cancer, New Album, and Learning to Love Oasis

Social Distortion’s Mike Ness on Kicking Cancer, New Album, and Learning to Love Oasis

In April 2023, Mike Ness was ready for Social Distortion to finally get back in the studio. The Orange County punks were set to record their first studio album since 2011’s Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, with Ness armed with an arsenal of riffs, grooves, lyrics, and ideas he’d been sitting on as far back as 1996’s White Light White Heat White Trash. About halfway through the next year’s recording sessions in Los Angeles, Ness was diagnosed with …