The Coronas, a band long before the pandemic, drop latest LP
Corona beer isn’t the only thing that has a different ring to it after the coronavirus.There’s an Irish indie-rock band called the Coronas that will also now be forever associated with COVID-19.But the trio — which drops its sixth album, “True Love Waits,” Friday — had already made a name for itself since its 2007 debut, topping the charts and playing arenas in Ireland.Here, frontman Danny O’Reilly, 35, reveals how they got their now-notorious moniker, why he didn’t mind quarantine and the story behind the Christmas Eve he spent with Bono.How did you first come up with your band name?We’re actually named after an old-school vintage typewriter called Smith Corona Deluxe. It was in this movie “Almost Famous” that we loved.