Founded in 1997, The Generators come from California and The Winter Of Discontent is their seventh album. The Generators are a punk"n"roll band that sounds like a crossbreed of Bad Religion and Social Distortion. The melodic component plays an important role in most Generators songs: they write beautiful melodies and choruses. But The Winter Of Discontent is not only suitable for punk fans. The "50s retro sounding rock"n"roll guitar makes this record also interesting for people who prefer straighter and hard rocking music. The Generators seem to have found the right way as they get described in reviews as "the new face of punk"n"roll" or "the band of the new millennium".