It had been 15 years since Veruca Salt’s Louise Post and Nina Gordon shared a stage together, but in 2013, the band posted on social media: “for now let’s just say this: hatchets buried, axes exhumed.” The grunge alt-rockers picked up right where they had left off, along with the other two original members as…
Happy New Year, you fine and sexy ladies and gents! If you are reading this, it means you have survived another year of life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Congrats and shit. Each year on TLW, I post a list of my Top 10 albums of the year. (Insert link to last year’s…
Just minutes after hitting the stage and churning out “Get Back” and “All Hail Me,” the first two tracks off 1994’s American Thighs, the crowd at Music Hall of Williamsburg drowned out the band they had all come to see. It had been 16 years since Nina Gordon left the alternative grunge band Veruca Salt,…
Good news, audio geeks – Record Store Day 2014 (RSD) is less than a month away! For the uninitiated, Record Store Day is a day where independent record stores celebrate the fact that they still exist. That sounds harsh in a way, but it’s a day truly worth celebrating. Bands put out special RSD releases…
In the early 90’s, in the height of grunge’s commercial explosion, Veruca Salt hit the scene with a feisty alt-rock track named “Seether.” Fronted by singer-guitarists Louise Post and Nina Gordon, the band quickly signed with the indie Minty Fresh Records. Thanks to their hit single, they also landed a spot opening for Hole, while…
Veruca Salt, in its original incarnation, was one of my favorite bands growing up. In the throws of young adolescence, Veruca Salt was there to usher me into the good ol’ ’90s, and help introduce me to the post-hair band grunge movement taking over the nation. Though it never was quite the same post-Nina, I…