Social Distortion, Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan and Sharks at the Beaumont tonight

​One of punk’s enduring institutions, Social Distortion formed in 1978 and released its seminal ode to suburban anomie, Mommy’s Little Monster, five years later. It was another five years before Prison Bound, thanks to frontman Mike Ness’ skirmishes with the law and heroin. The album widened Social D’s punk sound with country and rockabilly, a move that bore fruit with the band’s self-titled 1990 breakthrough that produced “Ring of Fire” and “Ball and Chain.” The band has balanced its punk and roots elements nicely — aside from a regrettable stab at hard rock, White Light White Heat White Trash, in 1996 — and the latest, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, is no exception.