Question: Are Lilys and Blake Babies both American?
Context: Lilys are an American indie rock band formed in Washington, D.C in 1988.  The only constant member is Kurt Heasley, with the line-up changing regularly.  Several of the band's tracks have been used in television advertisements, and the band's biggest hit was one of these, "A Nanny In Manhattan", which reached No. 16 in the UK after being used in a Levi's advertisement directed by Roman Coppola. Eccsame the Photon Band is the second full-length 1994 album by the American indie rock band, Lilys, originally released on the spinART label.  The album saw the band move towards dream pop.  The notoriously nomadic Kurt Heasley refers to this period of Lilys history as EPOCH I, also included is his first seven-inch single " February Fourteenth", the mini LP A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns and Lilys' first full-length album, In The Presence of Nothing.  Eccsame the Photon Band was recorded at Mike Deming's Studio 45 in Hartford, Connecticut, largely as duo of Heasley and Harold Evans (of Poole). God Bless The Blake Babies is the fourth full length album by the Blake Babies, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music).  This album was recorded during the Blake Babies brief reunion. Innocence and Experience is a compilation album by the Blake Babies, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music).  The title is a reference to the William Blake collection of poems "Songs of Innocence and of Experience". Epilogue is an EP recording by the Blake Babies, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).  This is the final release from the band before their break up. Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area.  She was formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads and now performs as a solo artist and as one half of Minor Alps alongside Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.  In December 2014, "Paste Magazine" named her cover of the song "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith as number 10 in a list of the "20 Best Cover Songs of 2014." John Strohm (or John P. Strohm, born March 23, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American musician, singer, and lawyer.  He began his musical career playing drum set in Indiana's punk rock scene, then moved to Boston in 1985 and switched to guitar.  With Juliana Hatfield and Freda Love (then Freda Boner) he co-founded the indie rock trio Blake Babies in 1986.  In 1994 the band Velo-Deluxe with Strohm as the frontman released their only album "Superelastic" through Mammoth Records.  Strohm also played drums in The Lemonheads from 1987 - 1989 and guitar during the years 1993-1994 and 1996-1997.  He led the indie rock band Antenna and released his first solo album, "Vestavia", in 1999.  In 2007 Strohm released another full-length album, "Everyday Life". Blake Babies were an American college rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.  The three primary members were John Strohm, Freda Love (born Freda Boner), and Juliana Hatfield, with Evan Dando, Andrew Mayer, Seth White, Anthony DeLuca (who played drums in place of Freda for the group's last European tour in early 1992), and Mike Leahy each also performing as members of the band at times. Rosy Jack World is an EP recording by the Blake Babies, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music).  The album title was taken from a song on The Frogs 1989 album, "It's Only Right and Natural". Freda Love Smith (born Freda Boner, later used the stage name Freda Love) is an American musician, journalist, and non-fiction author.  Smith is known as a drummer and vocalist for several alternative rock bands, including the Blake Babies, Antenna, Mysteries of Life, Some Girls and Sunshine Boys.  She is the author of "Red Velvet Underground", a memoir and cookbook published in 2015.
Answer: yes