Veruca Salt

Blending the jagged, abrasive punk-pop of the Pixies and Breeders with the power pop of bands like Cheap Trick, Veruca Salt was one of the first female-fronted outfits to achieve stardom in the post-Nirvana alternative rock era.

Forming in 1992 around singer/guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, the band released its debut album American Thighs (named after a line in AC/DC’s \