On Ghost Notes, its first album in nearly a decade and the first by its original members since 1997, Veruca Salt embraces a throwback sound with... Ani Difranco has a line in her 2012 song, "If Yr Not ...

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, ...

It all started with an unassuming, curtly-worded Facebook posting by Chicago-bred alternative combo Veruca Salt: “Hatchets buried. Axes exhumed.” The group’s founding lineup – including long-feuding ...