They are best known for their 2012 song "Hero", which was featured in Richard Linklater's 2014 film Boyhood and became a top 10 hit in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland.

Shortly after, the band flew west for California shows with Bell X1 before returning east for the CMJ Music Marathon, marking Family of the Year's New York debut.

[4] In November 2009, they hit the road with Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros in support of their debut album, Songbook.

In July 2012, the band released their second album Loma Vista with Nettwerk Records, produced by Wally Gagel.

With the release, the band has been included in a number of emerging artist features on MTV,[5] USA Today,[2] Entertainment Weekly,[6] Paste,[7] Billboard,[8] Amazon,[9] KCRW,[10] and Interview.

The group has shared the stage with a variety of artists, including fun., Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Walk the Moon, Good Old War, Grouplove, Atlas Genius and others.

With their first headline tour of 2013, the band sold-out shows across the country, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Nashville, Denver, Portland and more.

Additionally, it has been featured in several television appearances, including Girls, Underemployed, World of Jenks, Couples Therapy, Degrassi: The Next Generation, the 2014 Korean drama It's Okay, That's Love, and the Chinese web series Addicted.