Are Shipping News and Versus both American bands who play in their own genre of rock?
Shipping News: Shipping News is an American post-rock/post-hardcore band. Shipping News:  The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both in Rodan, collaborated to create music for the Chicago-based syndicated National Public Radio program "This American Life". Shipping News:  Kyle Crabtree was later recruited as drummer which completed the original lineup. Shipping News:  In 2004, Todd Cook, former member of Parlour, The For Carnation, and the reunited Slint, was recruited as bass player. Versus (band): Versus is an American indie rock band formed in 1990 by Richard Baluyut, Fontaine Toups, and Edward Baluyut in New York City.
yes