NOT SEETHING ANYMORE: A year ago, Veruca Salt was just another indie band from Chicago with a new album ("American Thighs", on the Minty Fresh label). But then big labels started hovering, and then an all-out single called "Seether" (this paper's No. 1 single of 1994) took off, and they signed with Geffen, and MTV picked up on them--and here we are.

They're on a headlining tour and coming to Toad's for an all-ages show Tuesday.

"We're sorta catching up to everything that's happening to us," said Louise Post, who fronts the band with Nina Gordon, from Detroit. "We're at a different place than where we were then."

One major difference in the band- name taken from one of the spoiled brats in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", album name drawn from AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"-is frame of mind.

Gordon wrote the appropriately titled "Seether", for example, in a very foul mood: "One day, she was really (ticked) off at one of her close friends," Post said. "She pictured herself grabbing him and dragging his face along the sidewalk. He looked up with her, all bloody, and she was shocked. It's about the anger inside and how potent it is."

"That record was such a good catharsis for me and Nina," she added. "We're such different people now. Now, when we play, we have a hard time connecting to these songs. I feel like we're a different band now."

Opening will be Hazel, a Portland, Ore., band pushing its debut album for Sub Pop; and Squash Blossom...