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Palo Alto, San Jose CA, United States (1993 – present)

The Donnas are an American all-female rock band from Palo Alto, California.
After gathering a cult following since their May 1993 debut, the band achieved major commercial success in the late-90s and afterward.

All band members were born in 1979. As best friends, they formed in the 8th grade to play for their school’s “Day on the Green.” The only girl band in Palo Alto, they were relatively unknown until they were out of high school. They are all self-taught musicians and practiced in Castellano’s garage nearly every day during high school. They are sometimes described as a punk band but the band themselves deny any kind of affiliation with the punk rock movement.

Experimenting with different musical styles, they underwent a variety of band names (Screen, Raggedy Anne, and The Electrocutes) before settling on The Donnas. They worked with producer Darin Raffaelli for their first two albums, the first of which, simply called The Donnas, was entirely written by Raffaelli and released on his own Superteem! record label. (It was later re-released on Lookout! Records.) They took a week off of their senior year of high school to tour Japan and experimented with riot grrrl as The Electrocutes. They signed with Lookout! Records. As the band grew, they were urged to sign with a major label company. In 2001, they signed with Atlantic Records.
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  • Gold Medal
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  • Bitchin'
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  • Nightlover_

    Dancing with myself ♥

    13 days ago

  • Musilov

    I had quite hard times to get by and watching the Youtube live rock am ring 2003 footage of the Donnas helped me a lot. It always fires me on. I wouldn't want to live without this band.

    last month

  • sunnystream

    Girls you rock!

    last month

  • cdax2307

    Love em. Guilty pleasure. They rock out better than most male bands. Fuck yeah

    last month

  • Musilov

    Gold Medal was the Donnas trying to crack their mould. Still prefer Spend the night, though. BUT WHERE IS THE NEW ALBUM? Even on facebook I don't find any satisfying info. + I really want new gigs!!!!!!!

    March 2012

  • HappyAmputee

    Gold Medal was the best for me, love it so much!

    March 2012

  • IzH

    and why are 98% of Blink182 songs about fucking? ) heh) teens, what you expected?) whatever, i love those band) ps so i'm practice my english, it's too difficult, but i'm strong:\

    February 2012

  • Musilov

    Why? Beats any other crap other bands are singing about! And all the while I'm still waiting on 12 new songs about more fucking.

    February 2012
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SXSW 2011: BRETT WITH THE STRIPMINERS

13 Mar 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/thedonnas

Brett represents @ SXSW 2011! Performing w/ her project The Stripminers at three showcases + a panel discussion:Mar 16 - 3pm SEANOW! Party @ Annie's West; Mar 16 - 8pm Vans Off The Wall …

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