The Veruca Salt soap opera continues, in fact that's exactly the reason why Louise Post has decided to title her first post-Nina Gordon record Veruca Salt, Veruca Salt, after the short-lived seminal night time soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. And in case you're wondering exactly what right Post has to the name? According to her lawyers, "every" would not be too intemperate a reply. Nina Gordon was the one who exited the band, leaving behind her shell-shocked bandmates and the name last February -- after she found out her best friend and cohort Louise Post had consoled Gordon's longtime beau, Fig Dish's Blake Smith, after he found out lovely Nina had a fling with Veruca Salt's newish drummer, Stacy Jones, who they purloined from Letters From Cleo. Are you still with us? The house of cards tumbled when an enraged Nina fled Chi-town, catching a flight to New York, and flouncing into Geffen Records to announce she had left her band and planned to record a solo record. Fast forward six months. Gordon is in Boston with Stacy Jones -- and he is playing on her record. She'll be going into the studio "sooner than later," according to a spokesperson at the label. As for Louise, she spent some time in London this Spring, recording "Solve My Problems Today" for the Avengers soundtrack with the Ashtar Command, and when she came back, she immediately put her pert little nose to the grindstone and began resurrecting Veruca Salt from the ground up. Post and her significant other, Brian (ex-Filter, Ashtar Command stalwart) Liesgang are producing the disc, and so far, they have co-written a handful of tunes, including "Used To Know Her," "Wet Suit," "Yeah, Man," and "Fragile." As for Ashtar Command, Liesgang's band with Chris (Yum Yum) Holme, according to Liesgang they are "85 per cent done with the new record," and we should see it on our shelves next year, right next to the new Veruca Salt disc.