The Pierces: karaoke, loneliness and shamanic ayahuasca rituals
Laura Barton: What led folk-pop siblings Allison and Catherine Pierce to seek inspiration in the South American hallucinogenic? And did it work?
August 2014
The Pierces: Creation review – harmonising in a minor key
The Pierces: Creation review – silvery, spinetingling soft-rock
July 2014
Cult music heroes: artists on their unsung idols
Who inspires Faris Badwan, New Order and Jake Bugg? From a north London rapper to a Turkish protest singer, these are the musicians who influence the stars
June 2014
The Pierces review – magical, sinuously intertwined voices
Listen up
The Pierces: Creation – Live
May 2014
Listen up
The Pierces: Kings – live
Watch the sibling duo perform a special acoustic version of a song from their forthcoming album, Creation
April 2014
Music blog
The Pierces: Believe in Me – live
Watch Alabama sisters the Pierces perform a live version of Believe in Me, from their forthcoming album Creation
May 2011
The Pierces: You & I – review
The Pierces have reined in their sense of mischief on their make-or-break fourth album, writes Kitty Empire
The Pierces: You & I – review
The Pierces have turned the phasers to soft rock. Michael Hann is stunned
This week's new tracks
This week's new singles
Live music booking now
Live music booking now
The Pierces: 'We're not poppy. We sound pop-u-lar!'
February 2011
The Pierces: 'We're the indie Abba'
Having spent a decade in near obscurity, folk-rock sisters the Pierces are being tipped for glory. Just don't ask them their age, writes Elizabeth Day
How I wrote ...
The Pierces live session: How we wrote .... You'll Be Mine
Catherine and Allison Pierce talk us through their new single and perform an exclusive acoustic version in our studios
The Pierces – review
Now with Coldplay's Guy Berryman on board as producer, the Pierces haven't completely given up their oddness, but they're also aimed squarely at Radio 2, writes Michael Hann
December 2010
Clare Maguire, Katy B and the Pierces: pop's new queens in waiting
Three of the next year's most hotly tipped female acts tell us about their Mercury hopes, the future of the music business, and what they would spin at Will and Kate's wedding
October 2010
First sight
First sight: The Pierces
New York-based sister act Allison and Catherine Pierce are suddenly a band everyone's talking about
September 2010
New band of the week
The Pierces (No 858)
Balancing ballast with beauty, these two sisters from Alabama offer a rocked-up folk take on Fleetwood Mac
