Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

New research suggests that dissonant rock music arouses listeners because its sound is similar to the ones made by animals in distress. PROBLEM: Parents hate it, and radio stations hardly play it ...

Just how much distortion -- and the favored type of distortion, analog or digital -- varies from listener to listener, and that's where the story gets complicated. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

It blogs. It books cool local music shows. It’s a must-follow Facebook and Twitter page. It promotes bands, free of charge. So what is Dallas Distortion Music, exactly? Essentially, DDM is Matt ...

Social Distortion occupies a unique space in the annals of rock history. Despite more than 40 years in the game, there are bands with more historical catalogs; hell, one of those bands (the Rolling ...

Well here’s a sentence that will make punk fans of a certain age feel things: Social Distortion is touring behind the 25th anniversary of its self-titled debut album. Yeah, go ahead and let that sink ...

Mainliner; Mommy’s Little Monster; Prison Bound; Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell; White Light, White Heat, White Trash; Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll: Mike Ness’s record titles read like a parole ...

This past weekend, a young Dallas impresario played a major role in the second annual National Cassette Store Day. It might have slipped by you, as it did me. But Evan Henry, founder of Dallas ...

Distortion is one of the most common effect types, but it comes in a host of shapes and sizes. Let’s examine some of the science behind it… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

If there’s one thing Mike Ness learned in the 1980s about the music biz, it’s that being a punk rocker and sustaining a career were never intended to be bedfellow aspirations. In a music genre ...

Social Distortion may have gotten their start in the late 1970s Southern California punk scene, but the band’s musical lineage and influences go much further back (and spread further out) than the ...