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Chicago, Illinois, USA (1993 – present)

Veruca Salt is an group from Chicago, Illinois, USA formed in 1993.

Veruca Salt was formed alongside the friendship of Louise Post and Nina Gordon. Introduced by Gordon’s good friend, actress Lili Taylor, Gordon and Post quickly bonded and formed what is now known as Veruca Salt. Originally, the band was an Indigo Girls-inspired acoustic act, but the women quickly realized this wasn’t their sound. They quickly enlisted bass player Steve Lack and eventually Gordon’s brother Jim Shapiro joined as a drummer, even though he originally was just drumming as a favor to his sister.

Veruca Salt released a self-funded demo tape and shopped it to labels, and began to play a handful of small club shows. The buzz around the band grew furiously, and after only a few live gigs, the band was signed to Minty Fresh Records and began recording with producer Brad Wood. At the time Brad was popular due to having recently produced Liz Phair’s critically acclaimed Exile in Guyville.

The band released an orange 7” single for the song “Seether” to radio. “Seether” was a bratty, distorted alt-rocker about an angry and misunderstood woman. Compared to the rest of Veruca Salt’s material, “Seether” was very pop, so much so that Gordon said that when she wrote it, she didn’t think the rest of the band would like it. They sent “Seether” to radio, as it was the most radio-friendly song they had written and the reaction was unexpectedly positive. Unfortunately, the album wasn’t complete and they found themselves rushing to complete the album, before “Seether” lost its radio momentum. It ended up peaking at #8 on the Modern Rock charts.
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  • My_Sharona

    Can't fight the seether<3

    Wednesday afternoon
  • death_in_april

    Top 5 would have to be Earthcrosser, Sleeper Car, Seether, Shutterbug, and Get Back

    Saturday morning
  • EchotheSun

    Developing a new appreciation for IV

    last month
  • EchotheSun

    Not sure if I prefer sleeper car or number one blind, now that you mention it.

    last month
  • earthcrossing

    According to my scrobbles, these are my top 5 (most listened to least): 1) Sundown 2) Save You 3) Fly 4) 25 5) Number One Blind

    last month
  • Miss-Kei

    The Seether!

    last month
  • EchotheSun

    Post your all time top 5: 1. Aurora 2. Venus Man Trap 3. Never Met Her 4. Fly 5. Sleeper Car

    last month
  • helloimjoshua

    snozzberries? who ever heard of a snozzberry?

    last month
  • Kalistri

    Love this band, the later two just as much as the first two (Circular Trend and Born Entertainers are my favs from the more recent ones)... my brother kind of ruined Eight Arms for me by over playing it. Anyway, considering the direction that Nina Gordon went in after leaving, and that Louise Post pretty much continued in the same direction as before, I'd say this was always Louise Post's project. I wouldn't be too surprised if Post wrote most of the music all along.

    last month
  • CRAZYBALLIZTIK

    Nice band but I would have prefered if they were less clean and a bit more "trashy".

    last month
  • jacobfreakscene

    louise post is a babe. if i was a teenage boy in the 90s, i'd go out of my way to be her groupie.

    December 2011
  • right33

    5th albujm plzm

    December 2011
  • Panther_Panther

    i love this band

    November 2011
  • randomlife310

    My favorite band name of all time.

    November 2011
  • EchotheSun

    Agree...but that debate and this band are long dead.

    November 2011
  • foreverblondes

    So, dear Louise, find another name and move on.

    October 2011
  • foreverblondes

    No matter what they say, Veruca Salt was Veruca Salt until Eight Arms to hold you. Whatever came after that , it's just Louise Post's projects.

    October 2011
  • slidein

    Seether!!! I love it!!!

    October 2011
  • cheap_cheerful

    just so good. oh my god

    October 2011
  • hecmon

    awesome :D

    September 2011
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