When the punk scene in LosAngeles was being recognized across the globe vocalist Doug “Dagger” Kane wasone of the young familiar faces in the picture. Frequenting all the early Punkclubs like The Vex, The Cathay De Grande, and Godzilla’s, a then 16 year old Kanejoined in on the action, and started singing for his first Punk band Doug &TheSlugz. In 1983 The Slugz were documented as one of America’s first OI! street punk bands, and on any typical night they were opening up for other notorious punk acts like The Abandoned, Ill Repute, Mad Parade, and the Flower Leopards.

In 1989 Kane would go on to lead the Southern California punk band Schleprock. Through out the nineties the band supported the likes of Green Day, Rancid, The Specials, Sublime, as well as many others. After numerous records and non-stop touring over three continents, Warner Brothers Records eventually swept up Schleprock into the major label record feeding frenzy. In 1996 Schelprock released” Americas Dirty Little Secret”, but due to internal breakdowns and drug addictions Schleprock dis- banded in January of1997.

Along side Kane, there is also founding member guitarist Mike Snow. Snow and Kane’s friendship go all the way back to 1980 as child hood friends. Snow was one of the early faces upon the Los Angeles mod scene in the early 1980’s, and his first band Subway also played along side Doug & The Slugz on some of these early LA punk gigs.Mike Snow was also part of one of California’s first street punk bands The Choice through out the mid to late nineties.

The Generators over a course of 17 years have toured, or supported bands like The Damned, Black Flag,Megadeth, Anthrax, Dead Kennedy’s, Tiger Army, Circle Jerks, Cock Sparrer,Stiff Little Fingers, and many, many more. In April of 2014 The Generators will be releasing their Tenth Full-Length album, which some can consider a mile stonein the world of punk rock. This new release will be followed up with an anticipated European and US headlining tour. More than anything else The Generators somehow always remain to set themselves apart from the typical punk rock pack. Whether it is with their creative story telling approach, or the way they twist, and turn all the melodies around. The boys from the city of angels somehow always manage to keep changing things up, while keeping their fans feeling safe in that familiar place.