The duo began writing songs when their bands were on the bill of a big rock concert a few years ago, and eventually recorded this album, also called Fiction Family.

NPR: Fiction Family Debut Is Delicate And Industrious

Shugars was so horrified that he wrote a bill to require warning labels on concert tickets.

CNN: Taking aim at show biz

One such, Bill Graham, was a penniless rock-concert promoter whose San Francisco auditorium the locals wanted to close, saying it lowered the tone of the neighbourhood.

ECONOMIST: William Coblentz