In our latest installment of Tastemakers, we caught up with Elisabeth Maurus aka Lissie for a midday rooftop jam session in New York. The Rock Island, Illinois native and her band mates, Eric Sullivan ...

Very rarely do artists formulate and revitalize their proper musical dialects on the first try. But Illinois native Lissie's debut album entitled Catching a Tiger does just that, assuring listeners ...

We were big fans of Lissie's debut EP, Why You Runnin', and we brought her into the station to do a session with us back in 2009. Her 2010 full length album, Catching a Tiger, made our Best of 2010 ...

Lissie today shares a new live version of ‘Carving Canyons’, the title track from last year’s critically acclaimed Americana-tinged indie-folk album. Recorded for WXPN at World Cafe Live, it is ...

Though Lissie’s debut LP, Catching a Tiger, sanded down the edges of her alt-country sound, her live show is charmingly raw. Stripped down to a trio, including Lewis Keller doing double duty on bass ...

Lissie's music is usually described as folk or Americana, but if you listen closely — especially to her covers of artists like Lady Gaga, Nelly Furtado, and Kid Cudi — you'll hear a lot of other ...