Band Members: Jon Foreman, Sean Watkins

Fiction Family is a beautiful byproduct of a music industry in crisis. The adventurous new project is comprised of Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and Jon Foreman of Switchfoot and their self-titled debut album will be released January 20 on ATO Records. Though their bands have followed somewhat divergent paths—Grammy-award winning Nickel Creek crossing over from the bluegrass scene to mainstream roots music, and the Grammy-nominated Switchfoot ruling over modern-rock radio—these fellow San Diegans have known each other casually since high school, when both began exploring the California music scene by playing what Foreman calls an endless series of shows with their respective groups. Mutual friends spent years telling both men they should try writing songs together, an idea they continually