The unblinking story of how inter-band tension spawned a rubbed-raw masterpiece and influenced Nirvana.
PJ Harvey has a walloping, 50-foot-tall legacy — musically and emotionally raw when stadium angst was a boys club; opening the door for everyone from Alanis (Morrisette) to Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs). But in 1993, PJ Harvey was the name of a band: bassist Steve Vaughan, drummer Rob Ellis, and frontwoman Polly Jean Harvey, who would soon after come to be known as "PJ Harvey" regardless of whom she played with.
Rid of Me was their second album, coming on the heels of their stark, remarkable 1992 debut, Dry, which had launched the trio from their modest beginnings playing forgettable gigs around England's West Country (including one where they were famously paid to stop playing) into a major-label bidding war (won by Island Records) and on to an international stage. Read it HERE
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