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In 1974, a music revolution began with a band in New York City’s Bowery neighbourhood. They played in a small near-empty bar to an audience that included the ex-Marine bar owner and his dog. The band consisted of four misfits from Forest Hills, Queens with clashing personalities: an opinionated construction worker, a shy and towering…

Social Distortion’s return to London saw Orange County’s finest stepping confidently into KOKO, a venue whose century-long history, from its 1900 origins as the Camden Theatre to its Camden Palace years of New Romantic glamour and punk-era reinvention, lent the night an added sense of continuity. The building has hosted generations of iconoclasts, and Social…

After more than three decades at the forefront of melodic skate punk, Belvedere have officially released their highly anticipated seventh full-length, Seven Years of Bad Luck, via Thousand Islands Records. Over the course of eleven songs, Seven Years of Bad Luck finds Belvedere continuing to refine the blend of technical precision, blistering speed, melodic songwriting, and socially conscious lyricism that has…