Editing Veruca Salt (section)

===1998–2012: Gordon's departure and reformation===
Gordon and Post started working together on Veruca Salt's third album. However, after an argument between the two, Gordon left the band to pursue a solo career in 1998. (Gordon's first album, ''[[Tonight and the Rest of My Life]]'', was released in 2000 and featured drumming by Stacy Jones, who had also left Veruca Salt and was in a relationship with Gordon).<ref name="Caro"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1429647/nina-gordon-enjoys-life-after-veruca-salt/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906174512/http://www.mtv.com/news/1429647/nina-gordon-enjoys-life-after-veruca-salt/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2018|title=Nina Gordon Enjoys Life After Veruca Salt|first=Mark|last=Woodlief|publisher=MTV|date=June 30, 2000|access-date=May 23, 2019}}</ref> The dispute between Gordon and Post has been described as "one of the greatest rock soap operas since [[Fleetwood Mac]] or [[Hüsker Dü]]."<ref>{{cite web|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/resolver-mw0000063130 |title=Resolver – Veruca Salt &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=May 16, 2000 |access-date=July 12, 2015}}</ref>

Post, as the only remaining band member, contributed the song "[[Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody|Somebody]]" to the [[Depeche Mode]] tribute album ''[[For the Masses]]'' before recruiting a new lineup. Guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick joined and went on to become one of Post's principal songwriting partners during the next decade. Jimmy Madla and Suzanne Sokol joined on drums and bass guitar, respectively. Most of the band's record label support had been fired during the [[Universal Music Group|Universal]]/[[PolyGram]] merger, so Post left [[Geffen Records]], formed her own Velveteen Records label, and signed a distribution deal with [[Beyond Music]]. The reformed band released the album ''[[Resolver (Veruca Salt album)|Resolver]]'', which spawned both a single and video for "[[Born Entertainer]]" in May 2000.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Hay|first1=Carla|title=Veruca Salt Returns On Velveteen/Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8A4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22veruca+salt%22+%22born+entertainer%22+billboard&pg=PA85|access-date=July 17, 2017|magazine=Billboard|date=April 22, 2000}}</ref>

Sokol left the band at the end of 2000 and was replaced by Post's friend Gina Crosley. The band continued to tour through the summer of 2001 in the UK. Post and Crosley also attempted to form a supergroup with [[Courtney Love]] of [[Hole (band)|Hole]] and others but the project soon imploded.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Saidman|first1=Sorelle|title=Courtney's Bandmates Bail|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/courtneys-bandmates-bail-20010831|website=Rollingstone.com|date=August 31, 2001|access-date=July 12, 2015}}</ref> This allowed the pair to focus on new material for Veruca Salt which eventually yielded the ''[[Officially Dead]]'' EP that was primarily distributed during the band's 2003 tour of Australia.  That tour was precipitated by the title track (which had been released on the Resolver LP three years prior) charting on the Triple J Top 100, peaking at #13.

By 2005, Madla left to enter the restaurant business and Crosley was also dismissed. They were replaced in the studio by Solomon Snyder and Michael Miley, respectively. Veruca Salt began 2005 by touring Australia, undertaking both headline festival appearances and club shows. This session resulted in the ''[[Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things]]'' ''(LOSALT)''. The band went on tour with Post, Fitzpatrick, drummer Kellii Scott, and bassist [[Nicole Fiorentino]]. ''LOSALT'' was released independently by the band and included six new songs. The EP's title is an extract from [[Zora Neale Hurston]]'s ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''. This lineup then recorded a full-length album, ''[[IV (Veruca Salt album)|IV]]'', and released it in September 2006 (like ''Resolver'' before it, this album was released a month apart from a Nina Gordon solo album). The band then went on what would prove to be the last tour of Louise Post's solo incarnation of the band. A single, "So Weird", was released to radio at the end of October 2006, but despite being critically well-received,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/iv-mw0000734774 | title=Veruca Salt - Veruca Salt IV Album Reviews, Songs & More &#124; AllMusic | website=[[AllMusic]] }}</ref> neither the song nor the album did well commercially.

In 2007, the band recorded a cover of [[Neil Young]]'s song "Burned" for a 2007 breast cancer benefit album and then went almost entirely dormant. Post took time to have a child while Fiorentino went on to play bass with the [[Smashing Pumpkins]] and The Cold and Lovely. Kellii Scott returned to his original band, [[Failure (band)|Failure]]. On March 14, 2012, the band announced on their official website that they were on an indefinite hiatus.