Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band. Louise Post and Nina Gordon started the band with drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack in 1993. In 1994 their first album "American Thighs" was released. Gordon left the band in 1998. In 2013 she joined the band again. On June 22 2014 the band's original members will perform together for the first time in 19 years.