Question: Which band came first; Days of the New or The Alarm?

Context articles: Days of the New
Santhosh Echikkanam
Mammal (band)
Point of No Return (band)
Can You Dig It (song)
2AM Club
Cake Like
The Alarm
Banda Blanca
The Allman Brothers Band (album)

Days of the New is an American rock band from Charlestown, Indiana, formed in 1995.
 The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Travis Meeks and a variety of supporting musicians that briefly included future pop star Nicole Scherzinger.
 They are best known for the hit singles "Touch, Peel and Stand", "The Down Town", "Shelf in the Room", and "Enemy".
Santhosh Echikkanam (Malayalam: സന്തോഷ് ഏച്ചിക്കാനം ) is a South Indian, contemporary short story writer from Kerala.
 He is one of the newcomers in Malayalam literature.
 He was born in Kasargode district in Kerala.
 Santhosh was engaged with politics during his college days.
 He never came first in the college story-writing competitions, but he persisted with his literary pursuits and later achieved success, mostly for his short stories.
 His stories are down to earth and speak about the common people.
Mammal are an Australian band that formed in March 2006.
 Mammal rose up the ranks of the Australian music scene very quickly.
 Their first self-titled EP was recorded soon after the band came together.
 Their debut live album "Vol:1 The Aural Underground" was recorded just 4 months after the band started touring at a sold out show at The Evelyn Hotel on 2 February 2007.
 Mammal also released a single titled "Slaves/Nagasaki in Flames" AA side, featuring 3 songs.
 Mammal entered the studio on 21 April 2008 to begin recording their debut studio album, "The Majority" which was released in August 2008.
 It peaked at No. 51 on the ARIA Albums Chart in early September.
 Some of the band's songs, including Hell Yeah!
, New Breed Judas and Slaves, received regular airplay on Australian radio station Triple J.
Point of No Return was a vegan, straight edge metalcore band.
 The band started in 1996 as a side project of Self-Conviction members, in São Paulo, Brazil.
 The band's lyrics were focused on "Third World struggles" and animal liberation issues.
 Point Of No Return first CD, "Centelha" (Sparks), was released by Liberation Records in Brazil and Catalyst Records in US.
 Their sound was describe as a mix of Earth Crisis metal mosh with death metal elements.
 The band had three singers, like their North American counterpart, Path of Resistance.
 The band toured Europe twice, in 2000 and 2002, and toured Argentina in 2001.
 After a seven months break and a supposed "last show" in Argentina, the band came back with a new album in 2002, "Liberdade Imposta, Liberdade Conquistada" (Imposed Freedom, Conquered Freedom).
 The songs were more deep and melancholic, but also with a strong influence from bands like Cro-Mags, Judge and Napalm Death.
 The lyrics, this time completely in Portuguese, dealt about political and social issues.
 Point of No Return played its last show in 2006.
"Can You Dig It?"
 is a 1991 single by the English indie band The Mock Turtles and was featured on the album "Turtle Soup".
 It was originally the B-side to the song "Lay Me Down".
 The name came about after they were asked for a name for a song for the B-side so that sleeve art could be produced.
 Martin Coogan had been watching "The Warriors" which featured the rallying call, "Can you dig it?"
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 The name came first and then the band went off to write the song.
 It was released on Siren Records in all formats except for one of the seven-inch singles released in Europe where it was released by Virgin Records.
2AM Club is an American band consisting of vocalists Marc Griffin and Tyler Cordy, guitarist Matt Reagan, keyboard player Dave Dalton, and bassist 'Sauce' Matt Warshauer.
 Ex- drummer Ian O'Neill left the band in June 2011 for "new opportunities" as a drummer for Gavin Degraw.
 As of late 2012 Patrick Jarrett, professional drummer, has been touring and playing venues with the band.
 The band came together in Los Angeles in 2007, after Tyler and Dave who are childhood friends and Marc and Reagan who are also childhood friends met Sauce and later Ian (However, he is no longer a member of the band) 2AM Club brings a diverse array of genres, including hip-hop, rock, electro, rap, and alternative.
 The group was named after their favorite bar, the 2AM Club in Mill Valley, California.
 They signed with RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment in September 2008.
 The band announced an indefinite hiatus on June 29th, 2015.
Cake Like was an all-female indie rock band based in New York City.
 Its members were bassist and lead singer Kerri Kenney, drummer Jody Seifert, and vocalist and guitarist Nina Hellman.
 The band came together in 1993 when Kenney and Hellman met at New York University's Experimental Theater Wing, decided to form a band, and were joined by Hellman's roommate Seifert.
 The members had never played music before and so developed their own unique style.
 Their songs often play out like poetry set to erratic guitar-rock.
 They soon attracted the attention of John Zorn, who signed the band to his Avant Records label, which released their first LP.
 Ric Ocasek, formerly of The Cars, produced their follow-up EP.
 Subsequently, Neil Young signed the band to his Vapor Records label, which released their second and third LPs.
The Alarm are a Welsh alternative rock/new wave band that formed in Rhyl, Wales, in 1981.
 Initially formed as a punk band, "The Toilets" in 1977, under lead vocalist Mike Peters, the band soon embraced rock, displaying marked influences from Welsh language and culture.
 By opening for acts such as U2 and Bob Dylan, they became a popular alternative rock band of the 1980s, retaining a loyal following to the present day.
Banda Blanca is a Honduran musical ensemble formed in January 17, 1971.
 They began as a rock band, but eventually integrated elements of merengue and Punta rock to their music.
 The name of the band came after Antonio Lungas wanted a band to perform at the night club named "Garzas Blancas", and afterwards the band decided to mix the names, creating Banda Blanca.
 The band rose to fame in early 1990 when their song "Sopa de Caracol" became an international success, peaking at number-one in the "Billboard" Top Latin Songs in the United States.
 They also released the songs "Fiesta" and "Swing Latino", reaching the American charts.
 Their album, "Baila Blanca", became a number-one hit on the Tropical Albums chart.
 The group received a Lo Nuestro award for "Tropical - New Artist of the Year".
The Allman Brothers Band is the debut studio album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band.
 It was released in the United States by Atco Records and Capricorn Records on November 4, 1969 and produced by Adrian Barber.
 Formed in 1969, the Allman Brothers Band came together following various musical pursuits by each individual member.
 Following his session work in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Duane Allman moved to Jacksonville, Florida where he led large jam sessions with his new band, one he had envisioned as having two guitarists and two drummers.
 After rounding out the lineup with the addition of his brother, Gregg Allman, the band played free shows in public parks and moved to Macon, Georgia, where they were to be one of the premiere acts on Capricorn.