The Donkeys are an American indie band from San Diego, California, United States, that consist of Timothy DeNardo, Jessie Gulati, Anthony Lukens, and Sam Sprague.

[1] Their style of music has been compared Pavement, the Grateful Dead, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

[4] Their song "Excelsior Lady" was featured as a song by the fictional band Geronimo Jackson on the TV show Lost.

[5] The Donkeys third album Born with Stripes was mixed by Thom Monahan of the Pernice Brothers and released in April 2011.

[6] In 2016, the band released a mini album called Midnight Palms and recorded a cover of the theme to the movie Endless Summer.