CKY is on and off the road for the rest of the year, kicking things off in Pittsburgh last night. Here are the highlights.

Social Distortion is out on tour in support of their new album Born to Kill, bringing their contemporaries The Descendents along with new punks The Chats. I hit the DC show, and here’s what the Ring of Fire felt like.

The Twins of Evil have returned for a third run of this tour, but this is the first one in several years. I’ve been to plenty of the variations of these co-headlining tours with Rob Zombie — several with Manson, several with Alice Cooper — and while the concept has always made perfect sense (put the monster guys on one stage and let the tickets sell themselves), this time feels different. Here’s my “monster” 5.