It’s certainly understandable if you, like many, suffer band band reunion fatigue. Nowadays, it seems, no band actually breaks up. But this is a reunion we’re generally thrilled about: Veruca Salt.

Band reunions have become almost ubiquitous, but few come with a more harrowing backstory than Veruca Salt’s. Like the petulant Willy Wonka character for whom their band is named, its two vocalists, ...

Once upon a time, in the 1990s, women ran amok with guitars and dominated the alt-rock landscape. A couple of these ladies — Nina Gordon and Louise Post — made up one half of the Chicago quartet ...

Willy’s Candy Spectacular that went viral thanks to some wild, meme-able elements including the creepy warehouse it was hosted in, a strange character called The Unknown, and even some questionable ...

If you came of age at a certain time -- say, that musical sweet spot around 1993/'94 when the "Alternative Nation" was just coming into full bloom -- chances are Veruca Salt were/are very important to ...