Question: Are both The Pastels and Crooked Fingers American music groups?

Context articles: The Pastels
Eric Bachmann
Crooked Fingers
Crooked Fingers (album)
David Dondero
Reservoir Songs
Red Devil Dawn
Forfeit/Fortune
Something for Kate
Maria Taylor

The Pastels are an independent music group from Glasgow, formed in 1981.
 They were a key act of the UK independent music scene of the 1980s.
 The group currently consists of Stephen McRobbie (vocals, guitar), Katrina Mitchell (vocals, drum kit), Gerard Love (bass guitar), John Hogarty (guitar), Tom Crossley (flute, keyboards), and Alison Mitchell (trumpet).
Eric Bachmann is an American musician/producer.
 He is the lead singer of Crooked Fingers and Archers of Loaf.
 He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and grew up in Asheville, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and St. Petersburg, Florida.
 He currently lives in Athens, Georgia.
 He made two atmospheric instrumental albums as Barry Black.
 His first solo effort, "Short Careers" was recorded as a score to the film "Ball of Wax".
 His second, "To the Races", was released by Saddle Creek Records in 2006.
 The album, which was written while living out of his van outside Seattle the previous year, features contributions from Miranda Brown (backing vocals) and DeVotchKa violinist Tom Hagerman.
Crooked Fingers is a North Carolina band led by former Archers of Loaf lead singer Eric Bachmann.
 The band was previously based in Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Denver.
 The band released albums on WARM Records and Merge Records before going completely independent in 2008.
 They tend to have a rotating lineup.
Crooked Fingers (2000) is the first proper, full-length album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers.
 It was released on January 18, 2000 on WARM Records.
 It was recorded by Eric Bachmann in Seattle, WA at Ft. Lawton and Denise Maupin's.
David Dondero (born June 24, 1969 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States) is an American songwriter, guitarist, former lead singer of the band Sunbrain.
 In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits.
 Dondero started his musical career on drums at the age of 10, due in part to the fact that he "was always drumming on stuff with my hands".
 Dondero released four records with the Clemson, SC-based punk/hardcore band Sunbrain (three on Grass Records and one on Ghostmeat Records), before breaking up in 1995.
 The following year, Dondero joined This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb for nearly two years as their drummer.
 He left in 1998 to focus on his solo material.
 He has since released seven solo albums - two with Ghostmeat Records, three with Future Farmer Records and the most recent two with Team Love Records.
 His eighth album, titled "# Zero with a Bullet", was released on August 3, 2010.
 Dondero has toured with such acts as Crooked Fingers, Jolie Holland, Against Me!
, The Mountain Goats, David Bazan, Preston School of Industry, Bright Eyes, Tilly and the Wall, Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew, Spoon, and Willy Mason.
Reservoir Songs is an EP recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers and released in 2002.
 A five song EP which collects some of the band's favorite covers which they had been playing for the past couple of years on tour, it marks the first release for Crooked Fingers on the Merge Records label.
 It was recorded January 11–15, 2002 in Atlanta, GA and mastered by John Golden with additional production by Andy Baker.
Red Devil Dawn (2003) is the third album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers.
 Released by Merge Records in January 2003, "Red Devil Dawn" is the follow-up to 2001's "Bring on the Snakes" and is the first album released by Crooked Fingers on Merge.
Forfeit/Fortune (2008) is the fifth album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers.
 Eric Bachmann provides lead vocals, with Miranda Brown singing backing vocals, Elin Palmer providing backing vocals and violin, and Tim Husmann on drums.
 Guest appearances on the album include Brian Kotzur (Silver Jews), Tom Hagerman (DeVotchKa), and Neko Case (The New Pornographers).
Something for Kate (also seen as SFK) are an Australian alternative rock band, which formed in 1994 with Paul Dempsey on lead vocals and guitar, and Clint Hyndman on drums.
 They were joined in 1998 by Stephanie Ashworth on bass guitar and backing vocals.
 The group have released six studio albums: both "The Official Fiction" (August 2003) and "Desert Lights" (June 2006) topped the ARIA Albums Chart; while "Beautiful Sharks" (June 1999), "Echolalia" (June 2001) and "Leave Your Soul to Science" (September 2012) reached the top 10.
 Two of their singles have reached the ARIA top 20: "Monsters" (April 2001) and "Déjà Vu" (July 2003).
 The band have received a total of 11 nominations for ARIA Music Awards in 1999, 2001 and 2003.
 Something for Kate have toured extensively in Australia and internationally, supporting Pavement, Swervedriver, Powderfinger, David Bowie and You Am I.
 They have been supported, in turn, by Caustic Soda, Big Heavy Stuff, Augie March, Crooked Fingers, Angus & Julia Stone and Death Cab for Cutie.
 In 2005 Ashworth and Dempsey married.
Maria Diane Taylor (born May 21, 1976) is an American singer/songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama.
 She is also a member of the duo Azure Ray with Orenda Fink, also signed with Saddle Creek Records and has played in Bright Eyes and Now It's Overhead.
 She plays several instruments, including the piano, guitar, and drums, and has collaborated with such artists as Bright Eyes, Moby, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., David Barbe, Crooked Fingers and Nik Freitas.