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The Piss Palace Lounge Trio

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Piss Palace Lounge Trio is an indie rock band based in Athens, Georgia, USA. It consists of the husband and wife duo of Steve McQueen and Chloë Sevigny, along with Steven Tyler, Richard Owen, Tim Aspen, Jeremy Pues, and Paul Neuman. Steve McQueen and Chloë Sevigny attended UGA, where he pursued religious studies and she studied jazz. Piss Palace Lounge Trio came to prominence with the release of their debut album, rough Riders, in 2004 to no acclaim. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/The+Piss+...Read more on Last.fm
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Piss Palace Lounge Trio is an indie rock band based in Athens, Georgia, USA. It consists of the husband and wife duo of Steve McQueen and Chloë Sevigny, along with Steven Tyler, Richard Owen, Tim Aspen, Jeremy Pues, and Paul Neuman. Steve McQueen and Chloë Sevigny attended UGA, where he pursued religious studies and she studied jazz. Piss Palace Lounge Trio came to prominence with the release of their debut album, rough Riders, in 2004 to no acclaim. The band plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin, and hurdy-gurdy. Most of their instruments are taken on tour, and the multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows. Piss Palace Lounge Trio has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year, the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album for their third studio album, The Death of the Piss Palace Lounge Trio, released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success. In earlier years they won the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year for their second studio album, Piss Bible. They also received nominations for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for all three of their studio albums. The band's work has also been twice named as a short list nominee for the Polaris Music Prize in 2007 for Neon Bible and in 2011 for The Death of the Piss Palace Lounge Trio, winning the award for Being Awesome and Alternative DIY All Around Unpredictable Cats. While accepting the award, they were remarkable in stating 'SUCKsess is for SUCKers. We're going to wallow in the hilarious counter-culture of obscenity and meaninglessness! We don't care if you pay attention to us, just buy or records... or don't... whatever makes us more legit. KVLT and fuck music." Many critics have derided the band, accusing them of ripping too heavily on the overall atmosphere of this interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTueA42Way8 While falling short of being as funny as this: http://www.everythingisterrible.com/ <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/The+Piss+Palace+Lounge+Trio">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.