 nina rachel gordon shapiro (born november 14, 1967) is an american singer-songwriter. she's perhaps best known for being vocalist and guitarist of alternative rock band veruca salt, co-founded by her in chicago, illinois in 1993 alongside louise post. she left the band in 1998 due to creative differences, pursuing a solo career and releasing two albums, tonight and the rest of my life (2000) and bleeding heart graffiti (2006). as of 2013, gordon is back in veruca salt. == career == ===veruca salt=== veruca salt was formed alongside the friendship of gordon and louise post. introduced by gordon's good friend, actress lili taylor, gordon and post quickly bonded and formed what is now known as veruca salt. originally, the band was an indigo girls-inspired acoustic act, but the women soon realized that this wasn't their sound. they quickly enlisted bass player steve lack and gordon's brother, jim shapiro, a guitarist who joined as the band's drummer as a favor to his sister. veruca salt released a self-funded demo tape and shopped it to labels while playing a handful of small club shows. the buzz around the band grew furiously, and after only a few live gigs, the band was signed to minty fresh records and began recording with producer brad wood who had recently worked on liz phair's critically acclaimed exile in guyville. the band released an orange 7" single for the song "seether". the song was a distorted alt-rocker about an angry and misunderstood woman. compared to the rest of veruca salt's material, "seether" was very pop, so much so that gordon said that when she wrote it, she did not think the rest of the band would like it. they sent "seether" to radio, as it was the most radio-friendly song they had written, and the reaction was unexpectedly positive. the album was not complete, and they found themselves rushing to complete it before "seether" lost its radio momentum. it ended up peaking at #8 on the modern rock charts. american thighs was released through minty fresh records on september 27, 1994 and re-released november 8, 1994 by geffen records after the label signed the band following an intense label bidding war. the album peak
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