Social Distortion plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida on Nov. 12, 2010. Credit: Photo by Nicole Kibert elawgrrl.com

It’s been a whirlwind of a year for Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness.

During production of the band’s long-awaited, upcoming eighth studio album (no information has been revealed yet) he got a call from his doctor, telling him that he had stage-one tonsil cancer.

While radiation and chemo was needed and surgery did a number on his voice, Ness seems to have bounced back, and will perform the band’s debut album Mommy’s Little Monster—which celebrated its 40th anniversary last summer—in full

Tickets to see Bad Religion and Social Distortion play the BayCare Sound in Clearwater on Sunday, April 28 are still available and start at $49.50.

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This article appears in Apr 25 – May 1, 2024.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...