They’ve got some big European festival gigs to take care of first, then the fearsome foursome return to the States for a fall road trip that commences September 9 in San Francisco.

In a time when all-girl or all-boy groups are seen as nothing more than prepackaged record label stunts, The Donnas stand apart. They play their own instruments, write their own songs, and they rock.

Back in the mid-‘90s, Donna A, Donna C, Donna R, and Donna F started their first band, Ragedy Ann, as 14-year-old high school students in Palo Alto, Calif. Like the Ramones, they chose to take a common name and crank out fast, short tunes loaded with hooky lyrics.

In the honored garage band tradition, the gals had plenty to rebel against, like students whose only goal in life was to attend the prom. Armed with a lust for rock ‘n’ roll, a penchant for flipping the bird to anyone who got in their way and the ability to play their own instruments, The Donnas snubbed teen pop and kicked out the jams.

They’re grown up now (heck, one of them even attended college at UC Berkeley) and have four albums under their studded belts, not to mention a string of tours at home and abroad.

The Donnas’ latest album, The Donnas Turn 21, was released earlier this year, but don’t expect them to be, like, all mature and stuff, yet.