I finally managed to track down some Social Distortion news. The unofficial Social Distortion site is reporting that through October the band had been recording demos of their new material. Just yesterday they finished playing a handful of dates on Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam tour. The unofficial site reports that the band plans to have their long awaited next album ready for a Spring 2003 release. No label has been announced yet, but Mike Ness told Billboard in March that "we realize now that we can make it on our own, and we don't need a big corporation behind us."