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Jake H. met Casey a few hours after she was born. He was disappointed she was a girl and cried. Eighteen years later, he got over it, and they started a band. A few years after that, they suckered another kid named Jake into playing bass. After shooting down Casey’s idea to name the band Casey and the Jakes, they became Donora. Together they play melodic, dance-worthy, garage rock. The band plays frequently in Pittsburgh and occasionally they all pack into an SUV and drive to other places like New York, Indianapolis, Morgantown (WV), Dayton (OH), and some places in between. Every once and awhile, things happen that make other people assume Donora is a big deal. Like one time, their songs were picked to be in an MTV mini series called “I remember Chloe”, and another one called “Gimmie Sugar”. Oh, and this other time, they were finalists in a national Myspace/Verizon Wireless competition. Most recently, Donora's song, "Shhh" was featured in the PostSecret Valentine's Day video. In the week the video debuted, it reached over 770,000 hits on YouTube and 400,000 hits on MySpace. The comment walls filled up with questions about Donora's song: Who? Where? How? Sometimes people even write nice things about them like, “They will be a sensation someday” or “[their] garage pop hooks will lodge in your brain and stay there for days.” Though, that kind of stuff makes Donora blush and they don’t really like to talk about it much. MySpace: www.myspace.com/donora |
