Port O'Brien
Port O'Brien was an American musical group combining elements of acoustic, folk and indie rock.
They were named after a bay in Alaska featuring a now- abandoned cannery on Kodiak Island where founder member Van Pierszalowski's parents met.
They started out as a folk music duo of Cambria Goodwin and Van Pierszalowski while Cambria was living in Cambria, California and Van was living in Oakland.
After Cambria moved closer to Oakland they added a rhythm section composed of Caleb Nichols and Joshua Barnhart.
The band has toured nationally with artists such as Nada Surf, Bright Eyes and The Cave Singers and toured Europe with Modest Mouse, as well as receiving favourable reviews from Pitchfork Media, Allmusic, and" The Times".
M. Ward named Port O'Brien his" favorite new band".
To date the band has released three albums; a compilation of self- recorded and early tracks called" The Wind and the Swell" on American Dust Records and a studio- recorded album" All We Could Do Was Sing" on City Slang Records, and their latest studio album" Threadbare" on TBD Records.
Shortly before the release of their first studio album" All We Could Do Was Sing," Caleb Nichols left the band and was replaced by Ryan Stively, who remained in the band until their last shows.
Joshua Barnhart was replaced by Two Gallants drummer Tyson Vogel before the completion of the last studio- recorded album" Threadbare."
" I Woke Up Today" from the album" All We Could Do Was Sing" was recently used as the backing music for several Dulux Paints television advertisement in Australia.
The band toured Australia in February 2009 as part of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival.
Port O'Brien's new album," Threadbare", was released on 6 October 2009.
The band was dissolved in 2011, and Van Pierszalowski recorded an album in Oslo for a new project called Waters.
The album is titled Out in the Light and was released on September 19 on City Slang in the UK and Europe, Sept 20 on tbd Records in the United States.
In 2014, WATERS signed with Vagrant Records and released a new EP called" It All Might Be OK."
Waters (band)
Waters( stylized as WATERS) is a musical project formed by Van Pierszalowski, the frontman of Port O' Brien, after Port O' Brien broke up.
Pierszalowski traveled to Oslo to work on the album.
The group released their debut album," Out in the Light", in 2011 to generally favorable reviews.
The band consists of Van Pierszalowski( vocals/ guitar), Brian DaMert( guitar), Greg Sellin( bass), Andrew Wales( drums), and Sara DaMert( keyboard).
Johnny Foreigner / Stagecoach
Johnny Foreigner/ Stagecoach is a split EP between Johnny Foreigner and Stagecoach.
Released on November 15, 2010 through Alcopop!
Records it features an original track from both bands as well as another track in which both bands perform a cover song of each other's songs and was limited to 500 copies.
Across the Great Divide tour
The Across the Great Divide tour was a concert tour by Australian alternative rock bands Powderfinger and Silverchair in 2007.
The tour featured concerts in 26 towns across Australia and multiple shows in New Zealand.
According to Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning, the aim of the tour was to" show[ that] both bands are behind the idea of reconciliation."
Both bands aimed to increase awareness of the efforts of Reconciliation Australia to reduce the current 17- year gap in life expectancy between the average Australian life and that of Indigenous Australians.
A triple DVD set was released with the same title as the tour on 1 December 2007 with the Melbourne performances for both bands and backstage occurrences from the tour.
Niceland (band)
Niceland, formerly" Iceland", was a heavy metal Icelandic group established in 1983 by Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke and the Icelandic band Þeyr.
Waters (band)
Waters( stylized as WATERS) is a musical project formed by Van Pierszalowski, the frontman of Port O' Brien, after Port O' Brien broke up.
Pierszalowski traveled to Oslo to work on the album.
The group released their debut album," Out in the Light", in 2011 to generally favorable reviews.
The band consists of Van Pierszalowski( vocals/ guitar), Brian DaMert( guitar), Greg Sellin( bass), Andrew Wales( drums), and Sara DaMert( keyboard).
Straightener (band)
Straightener have performed at numerous festivals and live tours.
The band toured all over Japan during their" Linear" tour in 2007, as well as performing a joint tour in December 2013 with Asian Kung- Fu Generation to celebrate both bands' 10- year anniversaries.
Both bands performed in Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan along with a local band from each country.
Paralamas e Titãs Juntos e Ao Vivo
Paralamas e Titãs Juntos e Ao Vivo is a live album by Brazilian rock bands Paralamas do Sucesso and Titãs in 2008.
It is the second live album recorded by both bands together, and it has been released as a DVD as well.
The album is part of the bands' 25 years of career celebration, and several other shows took place in the beginning of 2008, with both bands sharing stage.
Some well- known Brazilian artists made guest appearances during the show, like Andreas Kisser( from Sepultura), Samuel Rosa( from Skank), and Arnaldo Antunes( former Titãs member).
For the live performances, both bands were nominated for" Best Live Act" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Brazil awards
Cool Joke
Cool Joke is a Japanese rock band formed in 2001.
The band's current lineup consists of vocalist Hiroya Ishikawa( 石川 寛 也), guitarist Suguru Asabatake( 麻畠 卓) and drummer Hiroyuki Saitō( 斉藤 広幸).
In addition to Ishikawa, Asabatake and Saitō, the band originally featured bassist Keita Hayashi( 林 圭太).
However, Hayashi left the band in 2006.
They performed under the Sony Music Japan Records label, but currently they are under the high numbers dream indie label.
During their time as an indie band, their activity was centered in the Fukui prefecture area.
They are now performing on a national level, and one of their songs," UNDO", was used as the third opening theme song for the popular anime television show," Fullmetal Alchemist".
2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners- up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winners and two runners- up.
Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together.
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter- finals.

Question: Are both bands, Cool Joke and Port O'Brien, from the same country?
Answer: no