Two members of a band deciding to enter into a relationship is always a risky situation. Two people in a relationship deciding to form a band can be even riskier. But this is exactly what Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis and indie-musician Jonathan Rice did this year.

Three years ago, Rice was an opener for a Rilo Kiley tour that came to Sokol Auditorium. Two years ago, he was a member of Lewis’s band when her solo tour came to the Slowdown. Last winter, the Los Angeles-based duo came to Omaha to record their first album together, “We’re Having Fun Now.” The group, aptly named Jenny and Johnny, recorded at the house of Mike Mogis, of Bright Eyes fame.

Saturday they brought their talents back to town with a sold out show at The Waiting Room.

The hour-long set opened with the band’s uptempo first single, “Scissor Runner” and ran through most of its album.

It was clear that their combined effort produced something different than their previous projects. The songs were more upbeat than Rice’s solo albums, and their harmonies mixed more than Rilo Kiley, where songs are mostly either dominated by Lewis or Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett. With Jenny and Johnny, the vocal responsibilities were pretty much a joint effort on most songs.

A bit of humor came before “The End of the Affair” when Rice called out a member of the audience.

“Listen, there’s a man here wearing a shirt that says, ‘Mrs. Jenny Lewis,'” he said.

“We would like to dedicate this song to you. If you have a bit dude, you better lay it.”

The band then debuted a new song “One of the Guys,” which Lewis dedicated to “all the dudes I’ve been on the road with. Love ’em all.”

They closed the first part of their set with a song Rice introduced as an “oldie, back from the solid days of 2008.” The song was “The Next Messiah” off of Lewis’s solo album “Acid Tongue,” which Rice produced. With the band’s new album being released only two weeks ago, this was the sing-along song of the night.

After coming out for the encore, Lewis was having trouble hearing the stage monitor. As she tried to get the tech to turn the volume up, Rice joked that if it wasn’t fixed, she wouldn’t do the song.

“You know these Hollywood types,” he said, referring to her history as a child actress.

In an almost sappy fashion, the duo closed the night sans bandmembers with a cover of the Everly Brothers’ “Love Hurts.”

Lewis and Rice dedicated the show to the Mogis family and all their old friends in Nebraska. Rice had recorded in Lincoln before; and Lewis’s band was once signed to Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records. Rice said it was the best show of the tour so far.