Question: Are The Pixies and Red Hot Chili Peppers both American rock bands?

Red Hot Chili Peppers 1984 Tour was a concert tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers to support their 1984 debut album, "The Red Hot Chili Peppers".  Following the band's brief first tour the previous year, original members, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons left the band to tour and record with their own band, What Is This?  who had also obtained a record contract shortly before the Chili Peppers did.  Slovak and Irons considered the Chili Peppers a side project and What Is This?  to have the brighter future.  In late 1983, auditions were held and Irons was quickly replaced by Cliff Martinez, best known for his work with The Weirdos, The Dickies and Captain Beefheart.  Dix Denney, Martinez's Weirdo's bandmate was close to becoming the band's new guitarist however after a few rehearsals they felt Denney's style didn't match what the band wanted.  Through further auditions it came down to a guy named Mark Nine and Jack Sherman.  The band had no clue as to who Sherman was or how he got to the audition but knew he was the best fit because he instantly clicked musically with bassist Flea and Martinez. <SEP> The Mansion is a 10-bedroom mansion owned by music producer Rick Rubin in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles.  Originally built in 1925, the house is famous for the successful bands who have recorded music there.  Although </ref> no one has ever lived in the Mansion under the name "Houdini", a fact that Corey Taylor, singer of the bands Stone Sour and Slipknot, has said in his book "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven".  The book also describes his paranormal experiences in the Mansion while recording Slipknot's 2003 album "".  After recording the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" with considerable ease and comfort, Rubin decided to use the mansion to record many of the albums he has produced, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers's "Stadium Arcadium", Audioslave's "Out of Exile", The Mars Volta's "De-Loused in the Comatorium", Slipknot's "", and Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight". <SEP>  Until 2013, the band comprised Black Francis (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, backing vocals) and David Lovering (drums). The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.  The band disbanded acrimoniously in 1993, but reunited in 2004.  After Deal left in 2013, the Pixies hired Kim Shattuck as a touring bassist; she was replaced the same year by Paz Lenchantin, who became a permanent member in 2016. <SEP>  The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk rock and psychedelic rock. Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.  When played live, their music incorporates elements of jam band due to the improvised nature of many of their performances.  Currently, the band consists of founding members vocalist Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea, longtime drummer Chad Smith, and former touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.  Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the best-selling bands of all time with over 80 million records sold worldwide, have been nominated for sixteen Grammy Awards, of which they have won six, and are the most successful band in alternative rock radio history, currently holding the records for most number-one singles (13), most cumulative weeks at number one (85) and most top-ten songs (25) on the "Billboard" Alternative Songs chart.  In 2012, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.