The M's
The M's is an American indie rock band from Chicago.
Tri-State (band)
Tri-State is an American rock band from New Jersey.
Contra (band)
Contra is a band from Cleveland.
Dentist (band)
Dentist is an American rock band from New Jersey.
A Certain Ratio
A Certain Ratio( abbreviated as ACR) are an English post- punk band formed in 1977 in Flixton, Greater Manchester by Peter Terrell( guitar, electronics) and Simon Topping( vocals, trumpet), with additional members Jez Kerr( bass, vocals), Martin Moscrop( trumpet, guitar), Donald Johnson( drums), and Martha Tilson( vocals) joining soon after.
Drawing heavy influence from funk as well as disco and Latin percussion, the band were among to first to debut on Tony Wilson's Factory Records in 1979 with" All Night Party," produced by Martin Hannett.
During ACR's early years with Factory, they scored seven Top Ten U.K. independent releases, highlighted by" Flight" and" Waterline," and released five albums beginning with" The Graveyard and the Ballroom"( 1979).
Following late -'80s and early -' 90s phases with major- label A&M and Rob Gretton's independent Robs Records, ACR were intermittently active.
They returned to the studio for the 2008 album" Mind Made Up" and since then have continued to perform, with their catalog recirculated through an arrangement with Mute Records.
ACR continued to perform into the late 2010s, and during 2017- 2019 expanded, reissued, and anthologized their catalog once more, this time through Mute Records.
Welcome (band)
Welcome is a band from Seattle.
Buffalo (band)
Buffalo was an Australian rock band formed in August 1971 by founding mainstay Dave Tice on lead vocals( ex- Head).
Fellow founders, also from Head, were Paul Balbi on drums, John Baxter on guitar, and Peter Wells on bass guitar; together with Alan Milano on lead vocals( ex- Mandala).
Milano left after their debut album," Dead Forever ..."( June 1972), and Balbi was replaced on drums by Jimmy Economou.
Their next two albums," Volcanic Rock"( July 1973) and" Only Want You For Your Body"( June 1974), were also issued by Vertigo Records.
After 1975 line- up changes resulted in a more commercial sound and the group disbanded in March 1977.
Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane noted that there was" nothing subtle about Buffalo's primal, heavyweight sound, but it was delivered with a great deal of conviction ... combining the dense, occult riffing ... with the progressive blues chops ... the band certainly captured the arrogant disposition of the times in a bold and thunderous fashion".
Alongside Billy Thorpe& The Aztecs and Blackfeather, Buffalo pioneered Australia's heavy metal, pub rock and psychedelic rock movements.
Peter Wells died on 27 March 2006, aged 58.
June (band)
June was an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois.
The Immediates
The Immediates was a Manchester post- punk band, performing and recording between 1978 and 1982.
The main members were Mike Dunne, Franny Dunne, Andy Connell and Phil Tomlinson with Jane Lancaster sometimes fronting the band live.
They were members of the Manchester Musicians' Collective which also included Joy Division, A Certain Ratio and The Frantic Elevators but The Immediates had a sound more influenced by The Ramones, XTC, Talking Heads and Elvis Costello.
The first Immediates single," Do the Don't" c/ w" This is a Window", on Central Sound, received airplay from John Peel and Janice Long and was performed live on the Granada TV show," Exchange Flags".
The second single," Can Anybody Tell Me ..?" c/w" Forever" was championed by Terry Christian on his BBC Radio Derby show," Barbed Wireless".
When The Immediates split in 1982, Andy Connell joined A Certain Ratio( and later created Swing Out Sister with Corinne Drewery and Martin Jackson).
Jane Lancaster released
" It's a Fine Day" with Edward Barton on Cherry Red Records in 1983.
( In 1992 a version was released by Opus III in an early example of a mashup and became a major international hit.)
The brothers Dunne signed to MCA Records as The Dunn Thing and cut two singles," Sticking to My Guns" c/ w" Make Your Mind Up" and" Ai n't Nothin' But a House Party" c/ w" You've Got My NumberSticking to My Guns" has since become something of a collector's item, changing hands for anything up to$ 200 per copy.
In 1997, Frank Dunne executive produced the album" Now and In Time to Be"( Grapevine), a compilation of W.B. Yeats poems made into songs by artists such as Van Morrison, The Cranberries, World Party, The Waterboys, Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan.
He is currently an Italian football correspondent for" The Independent" newspaper.
The Dead 60s
The Dead 60s were an English ska punk band from Liverpool.
The band's sound is a mixture of punk rock, ska, dub and reggae.
They have taken influences from artists such as King Tubby, Jackie Mittoo, Gang of Four and A Certain Ratio.

Question: Are Buffalo (band) and A Certain Ratio from the same country?
Answer: no