question: Are Balance and Composure and Cloud Control both alternative rock bands?
answer: yes
context: Title: List of punk rock bands, 0–K
  Passage: This is a list of notable punk rock bands (numbers 0–9 and letters A through K).  The bands listed have played some type of punk music at some point in their career, although they may have also played other styles.  Bands who played in a style that influenced early punk rock—such as garage rock and protopunk—but never played punk rock themselves, should not be on this list.  Bands who created a new genre that was influenced by (but is not a subgenre of) punk rock—such as alternative rock, crossover thrash, metalcore, new wave, and post-punk—but never played punk rock, should not be listed either.
  Title: Little Scout
  Passage: Little Scout are an independent band from Brisbane, Australia.  They have released two EPs and one album, and have toured with established Australian bands Yves Klein Blue, The Holidays, Holly Throsby, Clare Bowditch and Cloud Control; and international bands Belle and Sebastian, The New Pornographers, Sharon Van Etten, School of Seven Bells and Camera Obscura.  Soon after forming in 2008 they were named as one of Triple J's "Next Crop" artists and have been featured on Vimeo, receiving over 69,000 views.  Their debut album "Take Your Light" was released in 2011, to positive reviews.
  Title: Balance and Composure
  Passage: Balance and Composure is an American alternative rock band from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.  They formed in the winter of 2007, after the breakup of two local Doylestown bands.  The band's music is often suggested having similarities to Title Fight, Brand New, and Nirvana.  They've released three studio albums and five EPs since their inception.  Their second album "The Things We Think We're Missing" reached number 51 on the "Billboard" 200, number 10 on the Independent Albums, number 13 on the Modern Rock/Alternative Albums and number 16 on the Rock Albums charts.
  Title: Music of the United Kingdom (1990s)
  Passage: Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify.  While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music.  Electronic rock bands like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers began to achieve a high profile.  Alternative rock reached the mainstream, emerging from the Madchester scene to produce dream pop, shoegazing, post rock and indie pop, which led to the commercial success of Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis; followed by a stream of post-Britpop bands like Travis and Feeder.
  Title: Asian Kung-Fu Generation
  Passage: Asian Kung-Fu Generation (アジアン・カンフー・ジェネレーション , Ajian Kanfū Jenerēshon , stylized as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION) is a Japanese alternative rock band formed in Yokohama, Japan, in 1996.  For nearly its entire career, the band has consisted of vocalist Masafumi Gotō, guitarist Kensuke Kita, bassist Takahiro Yamada, and drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi.  Starting out as a college band, Asian Kung-Fu Generation released a series of independent EPs featuring lyrics mostly sung in English.  In 2002, they released their major-label EP debut "Hōkai Amplifier", from that point singing their lyrics in Japanese.  The band's musical style is influenced by seminal Western alternative rock acts as well as their own local Japanese indie-rock and punk scene.  Their songs incorporate various aspects of the genres, most typically expressing fast tempos and prominent power chord guitar riffs in addition to rhythmic groove and emotional lyrics.  Despite the indie nature of their music, the band has enjoyed worldwide commercial success in addition to critical acclaim.  Asian Kung-Fu Generation has been cited as one of the best, most balanced modern rock bands to emerge from Japan in the 2000s.
  Title: Cloud Control
  Passage: Cloud Control is an Australian alternative rock band, originating from the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia.  s of 2013 the band is signed to the Australian record label Ivy League Records, in which they released their debut album "Bliss Release".  They are also signed to Infectious Music in the UK/Europe; and Votiv in North America.
  Title: R.E.M. discography
  Passage: American alternative rock band R.E.M. released 15 studio albums ranging from 1983 to 2011, three live albums, 14 compilation albums, one remix album, one soundtrack album, 12 video albums, seven extended plays, 63 singles, and 77 music videos. Formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry, the band was pivotal in the development of the alternative rock genre.  Their musical style inspired several other alternative rock bands and musicians, and the band became one of the first alternative rock acts to experience breakthrough commercial success.  R.E.M. has sold over 85 million copies of their studio albums worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all-time.
citations: Cloud Control Balance and Composure