Biografi
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År aktiv
2000 – present (24 år)
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Grundat år
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
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Medlemmar
- Allison Pierce (2000 – idag)
- Cat Pierce (2000 – idag)
The Pierces are a New York-based music band. The principal members are sisters Catherine Pierce and Allison Pierce, who originally hail from Birmingham, Alabama.
Over the years, the girls have been compared to well-known artists like The Roches, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow.
Allison Pierce: Lead vocals, backing vocals, harmony vocals, guitars, whistling
Catherine Pierce: Lead vocals, backing vocals, harmony vocals, guitars, whistling
It was while they attended Auburn University, that a friend sent a tape to a record company in Nashville. This eventually resulted in their debut album The Pierces (2000). It featured folk harmonies and adult alternative songs. In a 2004 interview, Allison Pierce commented that the album "sort of got lost in the shuffle". Allmusic attributes the poor reception to "no label support".
On August 10, 2005, their second album Light of the Moon was released through Universal. The album was produced by Brian Sperber and featured 11 tracks that the girls either wrote or co-wrote.
On March 20, 2007, their third album Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge was released in the U.S. Produced by Roger Greenawalt (Nils Lofgren, Radish, Ben Kweller), the album has been well-reviewed, particularly for the single "Boring", which parodies celebrity socialites. The new album has a darker, edgier style, at times using such diverse instruments as an accordion, a calliope, bassoons, a sitar, violins, an autoharp, and a Hawaiian lap steel. It marks a definitive change in the direction of the band, which hitherto has been known as a folk rock band.
In an interview with Rolling Stone after they were featured as a Rolling Stone Breaking Artist, they revealed that this album "felt like last chance". As a result, they "just went for it, had fun".
On December 5, 2007, The Pierces appeared on the CW television series Gossip Girl, playing their songs "Secret" and "Three Wishes".
On August 21, 2008, "Secret" by The Pierces appeared in a promo for Showtime show Dexter.
The band is expected to appear in the new album from The All-American Rejects, When The World Comes Down in the track, "Another Heart Calls".
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