Claim: O'Connor and Krans began writing and performing together in 1998, friends began referring to them as "Jeneric" and they changed their name to The Parlor in 2011.
Evidence: O'Connor and Krans began writing and performing together in 1998, when they met in the elevator of their college dorm. Friends began referring to them as "Jeneric", a combination of their first names, which later morphed into "We are Jeneric", after their website's url. They formally changed their name to The Parlor in 2011 before the release of their album Our Day in the Sun.