About the author  ⁄ Aaron Mattern

I like tacos, pictures of cats, and sleeping.

Though Mike Ness' Les Paul goldtop guitar might read "Orange County," Las Vegas might as well be their second home. For as long as I have lived here, Social Distortion has played at least once a year, usually to multiple sold-out nights at the House of Blues (only being beaten out by Reel Big Fish as the So-Cal band playing more often). But the last time I saw Social D was a few years ago after Hard Time and Nursery Rhymes was released, so I decided it was time for a refresher. ...

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Las Vegas punk/hardcore band Nothing With numbers played a special reunion show at The Artistic Armory this past week, celebrating the birthdays of their drummer Dave Bartlett and The Artistic Amory's Dustin Hoots with fellow locals Unfair Fight, War Called Home, The Quitters and Illicitor. ...

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