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Veruca Salt is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Letters to Cleo and Failure. Those roots explain a lot about how Veruca Salt arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Babes in Toyland, Letters to Cleo, Hole, L7 and Jack Off Jill, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Corinne Bailey Rae, Hole, American Hi-Fi, Courtney Love and The Smashing Pumpkins, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Veruca Salt, reaching back through Letters to Cleo and forward to Corinne Bailey Rae. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro, and bassist Steve Lack. They are best known for their first single, "Seether", which was released on the 1994 album American Thighs. That success was followed up with 1997's Eight Arms to Hold You. By 1998, Post was the only original member still in the band and continued on with other musicians. Veruca Salt released the album Resolver in 2000 and the album IV in 2006. After a hiatus in 2012, the band reformed with its original lineup. Their fifth studio album, Ghost Notes, was released in 2015.
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Veruca Salt connections
Veruca Salt grew out of Letters to Cleo and Failure, shares an orbit with Babes in Toyland, Letters to Cleo, Hole and L7, went on to shape Corinne Bailey Rae, Hole, American Hi-Fi and Courtney Love. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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